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[ June 17, 2018 ] Migrants and Pandemic Planning, Rural Veterinarian Shortage, 1000 Grains of Ricin Biodefense Headlines
[ June 13, 2018 ] Medical Benefits Now Available for Veterans Subjected to Chem-Bio Tests CBRNE
[ June 13, 2018 ] DTRA Awards WMD Cooperative Threat Reduction Contract Biosecurity
[ June 13, 2018 ] DoD Seeks Partners for Chemical Biological Operational Analysis Improvements CBRNE
[ June 13, 2018 ] Sepsis Countermeasures, The Rise of Ticks, Smallpox Orphan Drug Designation Biodefense Headlines

MRIGlobal Awarded Contract for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Quality Assessment Program

January 10, 2017 Global Biodefense Biodetection, Funding, Industry News, Public Health

The National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has announced a new contract award in support of its Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) Quality Assessment program, known as the TBQA.

MRIGlobal was awarded the $13,704,858 contract to evaluate Mtb technologies and specimen processes to be used in NIAID-supported clinical investigations and disseminate TBQA technical and scientific data.

The company will help assess laboratories’ capabilities to accurately and reliably perform study-specific Mtb tests, and will advise and train lab and clinical site staff when deficiencies are identified.

Source: FBO.gov

Biosecurity

DTRA Awards WMD Cooperative Threat Reduction Contract

June 13, 2018 Global Biodefense Biosecurity, Biosurveillance, Funding

The mission of the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program is to partner with willing countries to reduce threat from weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and related materials, technologies, facilities, and expertise. The [Read more]

DoD Seeks Partners for Chemical Biological Operational Analysis Improvements

June 13, 2018 Global Biodefense CBRNE, Featured, Funding, Military

The U.S. Army is conducting market research on partnering to accelerate the development of technologies that will enable personnel to assess, protect and mitigate chemical and biological threats. This Request for Information [Read more]

Sepsis Countermeasures, The Rise of Ticks, Smallpox Orphan Drug Designation

June 13, 2018 Stephanie Lizotte Biodefense Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the economic costs of a measles outbreak, the battle against ticks and Lyme bacterium, and the role of veterinarians in combating Ebola. [Read more]

BARDA DRIVe - Transforming Health Security

Stony Brook University Selected for BARDA-DRIVe Program

June 11, 2018 Global Biodefense Featured, Funding, Research

Stony Brook University has been selected as one of eight institutions charged by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with accelerating solutions to combat health security threats. Through the federal [Read more]

Southeast Asia Biosurveillance and Epidemiology Research for U.S. Navy

June 9, 2018 Global Biodefense Biosurveillance, Funding, Military

The Naval Medical Research Unit Two (NAMRU-2) headquartered in Singapore with its main laboratory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is at the forefront of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)’s disease surveillance and [Read more]

Red-Teaming Bioterrorism, Radiological Emergency Preparedness, Ancient Bubonic Plague

June 9, 2018 Global Biodefense Biodefense Headlines

See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including bioterrorism red-team vulnerability probes, characteristics of pandemics, and why the human side lags behind in One Health. Quick Index BIOPREPAREDNESSRed Teaming the [Read more]