A campus-wide commitment to biorisk management.
Institutional biorisk management supported by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
Beyond the laboratory walls.
As diagnostic, surveillance and research activities expand, the institutional infrastructure for biosafety, biosecurity and biorisk management must scale with them. The risk profile reaches beyond laboratory containment to environmental safety, infrastructure reliability and campus-wide security.
Investments in physical security, water systems, power stability, surveillance infrastructure and training capacity are essential to safe operations and sustained pandemic preparedness.
Perimeter fencing across the ISTH campus — particularly IVEPCR — with controlled access.
Additional boreholes, treatment and distillation systems for safe molecular workflows.
Central campus transformer upgrade to ensure stable national-grid supply with backup redundancy.
Teleconference centre for biosurveillance, biosafety and biosecurity networks.
A new BSL-3 facility under construction.
In partnership with DTRA, IVEPCR is delivering critical infrastructure, SOPs, a formal Biorisk Committee and ongoing biosafety training across the campus.
- BSL-3 laboratory under construction
- SOP development support
- Biorisk committee establishment
- Continuous training programmes
- Laboratory biosafety
- Mentorship in SOP development
- Biosecurity risk assessment
- Incident management
- Biological waste management
- Handling infectious substances
These trainings have measurably strengthened laboratory safety culture and SOP development capacity.