Building a biosafety lab would be good for Hawaii

By Jay Fidell

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Aug 07, 2012

~~<p>As the University of Hawaii medical school was going up in 2002, Dean Ed Cadman recruited Duane Gubler, a world-famous researcher in tropical and infectious diseases, to come and build an infectious disease laboratory in Hawaii.</p>
<p>With the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) threat in 2003, a first-class Level 3 Regional Biosafety Laboratory looked like a no-brainer. The National Institutes of Health had authorized National Biosafety Laboratories at the University of Texas at Galveston and at Tufts, as well as Regional Biosafety Laboratories at 12 other universities.</p>
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As the University of Hawaii medical school was going up in 2002, Dean Ed Cadman recruited Duane Gubler, a world-famous researcher in tropical and infectious diseases, to come and build an infectious disease laboratory in Hawaii.

With the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) threat in 2003, a first-class Level 3 Regional Biosafety Laboratory looked like a no-brainer. The National Institutes of Health had authorized National Biosafety Laboratories at the University of Texas at Galveston and at Tufts, as well as Regional Biosafety Laboratories at 12 other universities. Login for more...