Events Tagged: "biodefense"

Ivins worked as senior biodefense researcher at USAMRIID (Fort Detrick) for 18 years (1990-2008)

Annual US biodefense funding totaled an estimated $700 million (Pre-2001)

Biodefense funding surge: Biowarfare-related funding at NIAID increased by $1.5 billion

NIAID assigned lead responsibility within HHS and NIH for civilian biodefense research

Scale of increase: $1.7 billion became available for biodefense research virtually overnight

Congress passed Project Bioshield Act, providing $5.6 billion over ten years for development and procurement of vaccines and drugs for biological warfare defense

Reconstructed 1918 influenza virus added to HHS select agents list