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ATCC Announces Awards from DTRA Supporting Global Health and Biodefense

by Global Biodefense Staff
February 15, 2022
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Novel work in small molecule antiviral therapies using artificial intelligence and machine learning for drug design and organoids for testing

ATCC today announced that it has been awarded three grants valued at over $5.5 million by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to support identification and characterization of novel therapeutic approaches to viruses of global health concern. Promising therapeutic candidates will be tested for efficacy with in vitro and in vivo model systems.

ATCC will employ multiple experimental platforms to define new targets for therapeutics, evaluate novel and/or FDA-approved candidates for antiviral and anti-inflammatory activities, and define relevant infection-associated biomarkers. This information will be used to develop AI models of disease and therapeutic effectiveness.

ATCC will also employ ML/AI strategies to integrate the cellular response datasets and identify broad-spectrum therapeutic candidates to combat various pathogens. The promising candidates will be tested with novel organoid models (organ-on-a-chip) in an iterative and sequential transition from in vitro to in vivo platforms. This is seen as a critical step in the one-drug-many-bugs approach to antiviral product development and will be an important contribution to improving our country’s pandemic preparedness resiliency in dealing with the current and future challenges.

“ATCC is proud to provide its expertise in global health and biodefense to support federal infectious disease research and development programs and the DoD with this new grant from DTRA,” said Joseph Leonelli , Ph.D., senior vice president of ATCC Federal Solutions  (AFS).

Dr. Aarthi Narayanan, director of Translational Research and Technology Transfer at ATCC, will lead this research. She brings her deep expertise in virology and preclinical product development to the AFS team and oversees translating cutting-edge research into technologies and products that will continue to improve global health and biodefense.

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