Biocontainment laboratory is expected to boost economy

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A Shot in the Arm
Biocontainment laboratory is expected to boost economy

By Felicia Jordan
The Daily Reporter-Herald
Publish Date: 12/1/2005

FORT COLLINS — A $30 million infectious-disease laboratory will help ensure the economic health of Northern Colorado while improving the physical health of people worldwide, Colorado State University officials said Wednesday.

The university broke ground on the Rocky Mountain Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, scheduled for completion in summer 2007 on the Foothills Research Campus, off Prospect Road and Overland Trail.

The laboratory will help the university become a world leader in researching, diagnosing and preventing diseases such as West Nile virus, hantavirus, Lyme disease and plague, said Barry Beaty, professor of microbiology, immunology and pathology.

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