Risk Assessment for new NIH BSL-4  Rocky Mountain Laboratory

-- Accomplishments

• Application and integration of our "maximum possible risk" model into the previously completed environmental impact statement for RML
• Development and application of an interactive model for computing risk of "worst case" community exposure over several test "scenarios" of intentional or unintentional laboratory breeches
• Application of a proprietary model for dispersion of "deliberately enhanced" bacterial spores compared to naturally occurring bacterial spores under conditions specific to the RML location
• Successful presentations before community groups and media representatives to answer questions and explain the containment and control of risks for the RML

-- Client’s name and contact person

• National Institutes of Health/NIAID
• Dr. Marshall Bloom

--Project's time frame: November 2003 – March 2004

--Dollar value of contract: $50,000

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