This grant provides multi-year funding to support maintenance, operations, and biocontainment-specific training at Regional Biocontainment Laboratories (RBLs) with BSL-2 and BSL-3 facilities. It aims to maintain a skilled workforce capable of responding to infectious disease outbreaks and biosafety challenges, supporting critical public health emergency responses.
Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education and private institutions of higher education, specifically named universities such as University of Alabama at Birmingham, Tulane University, and others.
