News

06/12/2009
>>Biosafety Scholarship.
1 year of training in Biosafety program management , preparing to establish and supervise biosafety programs.
Direct Involvement in day to day activities of HTRL
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10/22/2008
>>Current Status of the HTRL.
Processes are almost complete to get the building fully commissioned

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07/29/2008
>>Preparing the HTRL for commisioning.

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04/25/2008
>>HTRL Video Tour.

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04/15/2008
>>Ribbon Cutting and Open House.

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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.

James L. Madara, MD
VP for Medical Affairs &
Dean of BSD/Pritzker School of Medicine

Keith Moffat, PhD
Deputy Provost for Research,
Louis Block Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Principal Investigator, Ricketts Lab

Howard T. Ricketts Lab
University of Chicago
920 E. 58th Street, Suite 1115
Chicago, IL 60637
T: 773.834.9174
F: 773.834.0574
htrl@uchicago.edu