Welcome to the website of the University of Chicago's Howard T. Ricketts Regional Biocontainment Laboratory. The Ricketts Laboratory will be a state of the art laboratory in which scientists study the molecular mechanisms of infectious disease and and conduct translational research to develop products such as diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.

The research at the Ricketts Laboratory will be directed towards improving prevention, intervention and therapy of infectious diseases all over the world. Please follow the links on our website to learn more about the laboratory and planned research.