Texas A&M Dedicates Biodefense Center

By: Associated Press Email

Updated: Mon 2:58 PM, Jul 23, 2012

Texas A&M University is formally dedicating a new national biodefense center where researchers work on strategies to respond to bioterrorism and develop vaccines in the event of a pandemic or some chemical or biological or nuclear threat.

The A&M Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing is one of three such national centers announced last month. Others are in Maryland and North Carolina.

The state of Texas has committed $40 million to the nearly $300 million project on the Texas A&M campus in College Station. The federal government is contributing $176 million.

Top officials from the Texas A&M University System, the director of the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and Texas U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison are participating in the event Monday.

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