NIH hearing to be webcast
By Stephen Smith, Globe Staff
The National Institutes of Health will present a live webcast tomorrow of a blue ribbon panel's ongoing review of a controversial laboratory being built by Boston University.
The meeting, which will be at the NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Md., will be aired on-line starting at 8 a.m. at videocast.nih.gov.
The session is scheduled to focus on how BU and NIH can forge partnerships with the community surrounding the South End project. The executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, Barbara Ferrer, is scheduled to speak as well as Klare Allen, the activist who has led opposition to the lab for five years.
The blue-ribbon panel was convened by NIH after the National Research Council, an independent board of scientists, issued a report in November that was sharply critical of the federal government's earlier safety reviews of the BU project.
The lab, largely underwritten by NIH, is designed to allow researchers to work with the world's deadliest germs, including Ebola, plague, and Marburg. More than 80 percent complete, the project is on Albany Street amid the university's medical school campus.
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