The University of Arizona has dedicated its new $48-million BIO5 Institute on its Tucson campus.

The State of Maryland is constructing the new State Forensic Medical Center at the University of Maryland's BioPark in Baltimore.

Kansas State University expects to complete construction of the $54-million Biosecurity Research Institute on its Manhattan campus in late summer or early fall of 2006.

The University of Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicine opened its $63-million Animal Health Research Center in early summer of 2006.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) dedicated its new  $182.6-million C.W. Bill Young Center for Biodefense and Emergine Infectious Diseases building in April 2006.

The University of Saskatchewan is initiating projects totaling between $460-million and $490-million on its Saskatoon campus.

The Province of Alberta opened a new $14-million animal disease research and testing lab in Edmonton on Feb. 7, 2006.

The University of California, Davis is constructing two veterinary medical facilities, both slated for completion by year-end 2006.

Construction of the National Interagency Biodefense Campus (NIBC) is underway at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. A collaboration of the U.S.

Indonesia's Ministry of Health is planning to construct a BSL-3 laboratory for the testing of avian flu.