FAZDCenter

College Station, Texas United States

Education

The National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (FAZD Center) develops products to defend the United States from high-consequence zoonotic and animal diseases that pose significant threats to homeland security. Founded in April 2004 as a DHS Center of Excellence, the FAZD Center leverages the resources of eight major universities, 10 Minority Serving Institutions and five National Laboratories. The FAZD Center is focused on creating a national defense against zoonotic diseases (which are transmissible between animals and humans), and against animal diseases that are exotic to the United States, but which could enter the nation through natural processes, through an accide