News Release
NC State Leads NC NBAF Effort
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Dave Green, (919) 513-6662
Sept. 18, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
North Carolina has been chosen as one of five finalists for a state-of-the-art facility that will revolutionize research into animal and human infectious diseases, and North Carolina State University is helping to lead the effort.
North Carolina is competing with Texas, Mississippi, Kansas and Georgia for the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF). The NBAF is designed to protect animal agriculture and public health throughout the United States. Operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the facility will employ leading scientists to study animal and human infectious diseases.
Through the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM), NC State has played a leadership role in organizing the North Carolina Consortium for the NBAF-a partnership of universities, government agencies, and private sector partners who are focused on bringing the NBAF to North Carolina.
"NBAF represents an exciting opportunity for consortium partners and the numerous North Carolina publics they serve," says CVM Dean Warwick Arden. "The expected scientific, academic, economic, and public and animal health advances NBAF represents will be a boon to the state. We are pleased that North Carolina remains a potential location for the NBAF."
As part of the decision-making process, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is holding a public meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at South Granville High School in Creedmoor to discuss the possibility of locating the proposed NBAF in North Carolina. The high school is located at 701 North Crescent Drive.
For more information about NBAF and NC State's role in the consortium, visit www.cvm.ncsu.edu/.
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