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.
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