CSU Laboratory Receives “Select Agent” Approval

The Rocky Mountain Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences has formally received “select agent” research approval from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control

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The Rocky Mountain Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) at Colorado State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences has formally received “select agent” research approval from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


Construction on the $30 million laboratory at Colorado State’s Foothills Research Campus ended in October 2007. Last fall, a biosafety team began the process of adding the 38,000-square-foot building to the CDC Select Agent Program. The team is led by Dr. Robert Ellis, CSU’s biosafety officer and a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology.


“Development of new vaccines, drugs, and tests are critical to global health, particularly when infectious diseases are responsible for most deaths throughout the world,” said Dr. Tony Frank, Provost and Senior Vice President at Colorado State. “This important CDC recognition means we can take successful collaborations with such organizations as the CDC, the Gates Foundation and others to the next level to solve some of these major health issues.”


The CDC regulates the possession, use and transfer of select agents and toxins that have the potential to threaten public health and safety. The CDC Select Agent Program registers and rigorously inspects all U.S. laboratories and other entities that possess, use or transfer a select agent or toxin. With the CDC approval, researchers were to begin research mid-May in the RBL at Biosafety Level-3. The University already has select agent approval for some of its research, but CSU’s new laboratory is the first of the 13 Regional Biocontainment Laboratories and two National Biocontainment Laboratories around the nation to receive select agent approval

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