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University Wins $25M Grant for New Lab

MANASSAS, VA-A new laboratory will rise up at George Mason University's Prince William County campus. The university just received a $25-million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The 83,200-sf research facility, which will focus on potential diseases caused by bioterror threats, will cost a total of $42 million to realize.

By Barbra Murray | Updated on September 08, 2005

MANASSAS, VA-George Mason University will erect a new laboratory at its Prince William County campus now that the National Institutes of Health has awarded the school a $25-million grant to construct the research facility. Activities in the nearly 83,200-sf regional biocontainment laboratory will focus on the development of products for the detection and treatment of infectious diseases. These diseases could materialize as a result of biological attacks by terrorists, as well as naturally occurring infectious diseases.

The facility will cost an aggregate $42 million to complete, with the remaining $17 million of the costs coming from a $15.3 million contribution from GMU and an additional $2.5 million from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Prince William county officials have been working with the university to realize this endeavor. “The county’s partnership with the university has led to many new investments and jobs in Prince William County,” says Prince William Board of County Supervisors chairman Sean T. Connaughton,” and this facility is part of the continued growth of the county as a biotech community.”

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