Reason Established: Established as an organizational unit of Texas A&M University in the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Institute for Countermeasures Against Agricultural Bioterrorism to conduct research that serves to protect against the introduction of high-consequence foreign animal and zoonotic diseases into the United States, with an emphasis on prevention, surveillance, intervention and recovery. Contact: Neville Clarke; 845-2855; n-clarke@tamu.edu; <> [pdf of MO on file]