UH faces deadline to plan research lab or lose funding - Sean Hao, Star Advertiser

The University of Hawaii has about six months to convince the National Institutes of Health that it has a viable plan to build a regional biosafety laboratory or risk losing $32.5 million in federal funds, according to a university official. Construction on the planned $47.5 million biosafety level 3, or BSL 3, lab was scheduled to start in November, near UH's John A. Burns School of Medicine in Kakaako. However, the project came to a halt last year when the state failed to release its entire $15 million share of project funding because of a budget shortfall.