KENT -- Kent State University has been named a designated Training Facility of the National Institutes of Health's National Biosafety and Biocontainment Training Program (NBBTP), becoming only the second facility in the country to receive this designation.

As such, the university's Biosafety Training Lab becomes a continuing education training site for the NBBTP, whose mission is to prepare biosafety and biocontainment professionals of the highest caliber to meet the needs of the biomedical, emerging disease and civilian biodefense research communities through the 21st century. 

Because of the increasing number of high-containment laboratories and the constant threat from emerging diseases and bioterrorism, there is a perpetual need for biosafety training of the highest caliber and the facilities in which to offer that training.