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Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA)
Michigan State University was awarded $10 million over the next five years to house the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA), jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. will provide policy-makers and first responders with the information they need to protect human life from biological threats and to set decontamination goals by focusing on two primary objectives. The first objective is a technical mission to develop models, tools, and information that can be used to reduce or eliminate health impacts from the deliberate indoor or outdoor use of biological agents. The second objective is a knowledge management mission to build a national network for information transfer about microbial risk assessment among universities, professionals, and communities. (Awarded October 2005.)
The link address is: http://camra.msu.edu/