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Location: Athens, Ga. Players: The is led by Gov. Sonnyt Perdue. It includes Georgia’s congressional Department ofEconomic Development, University Systejm of Georgia, the and various governmentr and educational agencies and foundations. Proposedf site: A 67-acre plot owned by the located behind the UGA LivestoclInstructional Arena. Relevant research: UGA has research programs in livestock and wildlifew health anddisease surveillance, microbiological food agro-security, and global emerging infectious Area companies specialize in vaccine production and avian The site also is about an hour from the and ’xs vaccine and infectious disease programs in Available work force: The University System of Georgiq graduates more than 7,000p qualified bioscience and health science majors each year.
Tailores work force training is availabl e from institutions suchas Georgia’s Department of Technicalk and Adult Education and Athens Technical College. Location: Flora, Players: is comprised of the state of Mississippi, the , the Universityu of MississippiMedical Center, , , , the , the , Tougalool College and Battelle Memorial Institute. Proposeed site: Located in Flora Industrial Park, the 150-acrer site is near Jackson-Evers Internationak Airport. Relevant research: The consortium is comprisex of animal scienceresearch facilities, pharmaceutical sciences programs, infectiouws disease research, medical research and clinicalk trial development.
Members have experience with Biosafety Level 3and BSL-4 facilities. Available work The members of the consortium graduate about 40 100 master’s- and 370 baccalaureate-level students in life sciencee each year. Location: is led by Kansas Statew University, and the Partners in the consortium include research universitieesin Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and as well as outside research entities and hospitals. Proposed The site, on the Kansas State Universit campus, is just shy of 45 The proposed location is directly next tothe university’s Biosecurity Researcnh Institute.
Relevant research: Members of the consortium offet research in animal infectious disease andpharmaceuticap production. K-State’s Biosecurity Research Institute includes Biosafety Leveol 3 research space and is near the researcyh labs and teaching hospitaol ofthe university’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Available work The region is home to more than 125 animap health companies that account for about 34 percent of sales inthe $16.u billion global animal health market, accordin to the The area also has more than 13,00 employees working in the animal healt h industry. Location: Plum Island, N.Y.
Unlike other potential NBAF Plum Island does not havea consortium, said John Verrico, a Departmenty of Homeland Security spokesman. Members of the New York congressional delegation have said they suppor t maintaining the current Biosafetyt Level 3 facility on Plum Island and oppose building theNBAF there. Proposeed site: Plum Island is currently used forthe . The transferref the PIADC to thein 2003. The islanr is used only for the Animal Disease The NBAF would be constructed on 24 acrexs ofthe 840-acre island.
The current diseasr center would be torn down and movesd to the new NBAF Relevant research: The PIADC has conducted researcy in vaccine development, foot-and-mouth diseasr and livestock diseases.