Industry Today Focuses on the Nation's Plans for Biodefense Spending on Industrialinfo.com Radio

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This timely segment of Industry Today on Industrialinfo Radio will highlight the nation's efforts to construct strategically located Biodefense Laboratories across the United States. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stands to receive $1.6 billion for biodefense efforts in fiscal year 2004 under President Bush's current budget proposal. This live national radio broadcast of Industry Today will air Monday April 28, 2003 on Industrialinfo.com Radio and will provide an in depth overview of proposed capital projects across the country that will increase research capacity against known and emerging threats to our population's health.

Annette Kreuger, Industrialinfo.com's Pharmaceutical-Biotech Manager notes, "The war against Iraqan may be winding down, but the health perils facing us as a nation go far beyond whatever dangers Saddam posed. Beyond needing effective antidotes against anthrax and other biological threats, we have emerging diseases facing us here on our own turf. The true impact and range of the SARS epidemic is increasing on an almost daily basis. We might not like the idea of huge research labs possessing some of the world's deadliest microbes being built in our backyard, but conversely we demand immediate protection from them as soon as new threats arewhen they -are unleashed against the general population."

For more information regarding capital spending in the biodefense research sector, join Annette Kreuger, Pharmaceutical-Biotech Manager for Industrialinfo.com as she is interviewed by Crazy Al on Industrialinfo.com Radio's Industry Today Program airing live Monday Morning at 7:30 cst.

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