Organizations

University of Rome, La Sapienza

[Università degli Studi di Roma, “La Sapienza”]

Website:
http://www.uniroma1.it/default_e.php
Phone:
+ 39 064 9914 180 – 181
Address:
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy

University of South Florida

Center for Biological Defense
The University of South Florida Center for Biological Defense’s (CBD) mission “is to conduct laboratory-based applied research and develop web-enhanced surveillance systems for the rapid identification of bioterrorism and other emerging infectious disease events; and to provide education and training in homeland security to professionals in the community.” The Center’s objectives include: “develop[ing] innovative rapid clinical and environmental screening tests to allow early detection and recognition of biological agents suggestive of a BT attack; provid[ing] effective and efficient dual-use surveillance of possible BT agents in non-traditional settings; …[and] educat[ing] and train[ing] health professionals, emergency personnel, and government agencies in preparation for, detection of, and response to, a BT attack.

Website:
http://www.bt.usf.edu/index.html
Phone:
(813) 974-6663
Address:
3602 Spectrum Blvd. Tampa, FL 33612, USA

University of Southampton Mountbatten

University of Southampton Mountbatten Centre for International Studies
The Mountbatten Centre for International Studies (MCIS) “is particularly active in studying the global spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and the different ways of controlling them. [MCIS] seeks to facilitate and encourage international consensus-building on these matters through dialogue with national policy-making officials and researchers, and through [the Centre’s] own research…One distinguishing characteristic of [the Centre’s] work is its coverage of all the WMD technologies and their international regulatory mechanisms, and [the Centre’s] ability to integrate and compare what is taking place in the different fields.” MCIS has “active programmes on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, their missile delivery systems, missile defences, and British nuclear history.

Website:
http://www.mcis.soton.ac.uk/programmes/bio_chem_weapons.php
Phone:
+44 (0) 23 8059 2522
Address:
School of Social Sciences, The University, Highfield, Southampton, Hants, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom

University of Tampere

Divisions within the University of Tampere with a role or interest in biosecurity:
Institute of Medical Technology
The Institute is an independent research and educational institute of the University of Tampere, founded in 1995. The Institute is dedicated to modern biomedical research, and to the provision of high quality education at undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels in natural sciences related to biotechnology and molecular biology.

Regea Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Regea Institute was founded in 2004 in order to enable top-level research in the field of tissue engineering. Tissue engineering is a field of research that applies medical science, cell biology, biochemistry and engineering sciences.Regea is a joint institute that operates under the University of Tampere. It was founded by the University of Tampere, Tampere University of Technology, University Hospital in Tampere, Pirkanmaa Polytechnic and Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement.

Website:
http://www.uta.fi/english/
Phone:
+358 (0)3 355 111
Address:
Kalevantie 4, FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland

University of Texas Medical Branch

UTMB in Galveston, Texas is well known as a robust center for infectious disease research. Burnishing its credentials through the groundbreaking work of its plague laboratory (established in 1920 in the midst of an outbreak), and the development and testing of new cholera vaccines in the 1950s, over the past two decades UTMB has accelerated its drive to become an internationally recognized research center for infectious diseases. Home to the first full-suit BSL4 laboratory located on a U.S. academic campus and one of only two national laboratories dedicated to infectious disease research, today UTMB provides a range of biosafety, biosecurity and infectious disease research resources under the umbrella of the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity. These resources include: the Galveston National Laboratory, the Robert E. Shope BSL4 Laboratory, the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, the National Biocontainment Training Center, the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, the WHO Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, the World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arbioviruses and the McLaughlin Endowment for Infection and Immunity.

Website:
http://www.utmb.edu/ihii
Phone:
(409) 266-6500
Address:
301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-0609, USA
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