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 […]
Covid Lab Leak Fight Obscures the Global Rise of High-Security Biolabs
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 […]
Can a 1975 bioweapons ban handle today’s biothreats?
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 […]
We’ve Been Talking About the Lab-Leak Hypothesis All Wrong
Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group of Chemical and Biological Threats, spoke with the New York Times about the lab-leak hypothesis and lab safety. “All along, discussion of lab safety has continued, but it’s often been the under-the-radar or behind-the-scenes kind that Filippa Lentzos of King’s College London — one of the leaders, […]
Op-Ed: Biology Is Dangerously Outpacing Policy
Gregory Koblentz, a member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group, co-authored an article for the New York Times about the need for greater government oversight on pathogen research in lab environments. “The original source of the coronavirus pandemic remains unconfirmed. While it was likely the result of a spillover from animals to humans, a lab […]
