Purpose:
The Committee advises the president, the provost, and the director of Environmental Health and Safety on policy matters relating to the protection of faculty, students and staff from biohazardous agents that may be present in laboratory materials or in the environment; oversees the activities of the Department of Biological Safety within Environmental Health and Safety; fulfills the responsibilities of the Institutional Biohazards Committee as defined in the NIH Guildelines for Recombinant DNA Research; and ensures the University’s compliance with federal and state regulations and University policies regarding the use of biohazardous agents.
Chair: Craig Roy
Vice-Chair: Eduardo Groisman
Committee Members:
- Philip Armstrong
- Michael Bell
- Choukri Ben Mamoun
- Shrilatha Balakrishna
- Douglas Brackney
- Angela Bransfield
- Craig Brodersen
- Kevin Charbonneau
- Susan Compton
- Stephen Dellaporta
- Rick Fontana
- Ben Fontes
- Alyssa Greenwald
- Troy Hallman
- Robert Heimer
- Thomas Hemenway
- Christopher Incarvito
- Farren Isaacs
- Douglas Kankel
- Meg Kirkpatrick
- Patrick LaBuff
- James Macy
- Richard Martinello
- Jamie Maziarz
- Goudarz Molaei
- Leonard Munstermann
- Thomas Murray
- Robynne Orr
- Patricia Preisig
- Maren Schniederberend
- Peter Smith
- Richard Sutton
- Peter Tattersall
- Paul Turner
- Joseph Vinetz
- Carolyn Zeiss