Scientist Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security member Gregory Koblentz, the Director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at George Mason University, was quoted in a Reuters’ piece on the need for more oversight on federal laboratories that carry out biomedical research: “Organizations are notoriously bad at policing themselves,” said biodefense expert Greg Koblentz of George […]
CFR Backgrounders: Gregory Koblentz quoted on Syria’s Chemical Weapons
Scientist Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security member Gregory Koblentz, the Director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at George Mason University, was quoted in a Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounders’ special report on sarin and chemical weapons: The joint mission’s task of working on an expedited schedule amid a civil war is unprecedented, says […]
National Geographic: Gregory Koblentz Quoted on Possible Nazi Malaria Mosquito Warfare
Scientist Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security member Gregory Koblentz, the Director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at George Mason University, was quoted in a National Geographic piece on Nazi’s biological lab at Dachau concentration camp: Gregory Koblentz of George Mason University’s biodefense graduate program remains unconvinced of the offensive nature of the Dachau work. […]
Voices of Russia Discusses Biological Weapons “Tests” with James Lewis
Communications director, James Lewis joins Voices of Russia to discuss reports of U.S. testing of agricultural biological weapons in early 1960s.
Huffington Post OpEd: A Most Dangerous Race
The United States should take the lead in starting discussions toward an international agreement requiring the strictest oversight and highest biosafety level for research on other potentially highly contagious and lethal pathogens. Failure to act would offer tacit permission for the entire world to carry out such research without regard to consequences. That can only lead us ever farther down a most dangerous path and a never ending gamble with all of our lives.
