Saskia Popescu and Greg Koblentz, members of the Center’s Scientists Working Group of Chemical and Biological Threats, spoke with The Atlantic about releasing data on COVID’s origins. “If the international team released what data it has, it could potentially stoke the fracas in other ways. The World Health Organization has publicly indicated that the data […]

A project by Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group of Chemical and Biological Threats, on lab safety in BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs was written about in Science. “The number of high-containment labs studying the deadliest known pathogens is booming. A new analysis warns the growing number of labs is raising risks of […]

Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group of Chemical and Biological Threats, spoke with Newsweek about lab safety in BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs. “We urgently need coordinated international action to address increasing bio-risks,” Gregory Koblentz, an author of the report with the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, said in […]

Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group of Chemical and Biological Threats, spoke with Bloomberg about lab safety in BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs. “Nobody wants lab accidents,” said Gregory Koblentz, director of George Mason’s biodefense graduate program and a co-leader of the Global Biolabs project. “Unfortunately this issue has become politicized and polarized. That’s […]

Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group of Chemical and Biological Threats, was quoted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the Biological Weapons Convention. “It is worrisome that states parties can’t agree on relatively simple propositions that would ensure that the Article 1 prohibition on developing biological weapons includes biological agents […]