Irvine, Calif.
The University of California, Irvine celebrated the official opening of its biosafety training lab in May of 2016. The BSL-3 facility has been designated as an approved instructional center by the National Institutes of Health’s National Biosafety & Biocontainment Training Program. The 1,600-sf lab was constructed in 2015 solely for the purpose of biosafety training and is the first of its kind in the United States. It has been used by the inspectors of the Centers for Disease Control’s Select Agent Program and is the official biocontainment training lab for the University of California system. Other NIH-approved biosafety training centers include those at Kansas State University and Kent State University.
