Artist's rendition of the new lab
 


Actual situation on Nov 2

News
11/12/2007
>>Construction Update: on track.

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10/23/2007
>>NIAID Biodefense Network meeting held in Washington, DC
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9/26/2007
>>The second meeting of the Community Liaison Comittee was held on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 in Argonne Visitor Center.
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Welcome!

 

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
Principle 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