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Biodefense Headlines – 13 July 2025

News Scan July 13, 2025

This week’s topics include cuts to CDC and USAID that threaten global biodefense, breakthrough vaccines for Nipah and CCHF, and confirmation of airborne H5N1 transmission in mammals. Also: Rwanda’s rapid…

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US Invests Additional 44 Million in Smallpox Vaccine Manufacturing

BARDA Looks to Expand Clinical Studies Network for Biodefense Countermeasures

Battelle Selects New Director For Biodefense Center

Space Biomedical Research Collaborations to Advance Autonomous Medicine, Diagnostics, Drug Stability

M2D2 Support and Seed Funding Available for Medical-Device Entrepreneurs

Join Us at SMi’s Superbugs & Superdrugs Conference USA

BARDA Searching for Director of DRIVe Program

Seizure Drug Approval Expands Countermeasures for Chemical Weapons Attack

SIGA, USAMRIID Enter Agreement to Evaluate Post-Exposure Prophylactic for Smallpox

BARDA Backs SeLux Diagnostics’ Test to Rapidly Identify Bacterial Infections

Collaboration Among BARDA, DTRA, USAMRIID and Spero to Advance SPR994

Stony Brook University Selected for BARDA-DRIVe Program

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

Disease Outbreak Myths, Strengthening One Health, National Stockpile Oversight

DRIVe: Accelerating National Health Security Innovation

Health and Human Services Biodefense Budget Oversight

Project BioShield: HHS Purchases Anthrax Countermeasure from Elusys Therapeutics

Business Intelligence for Influenza Vaccine Supply Chain Analytics

ZMapp Ebola Treatment to be Tested at Texas Biomed

U.S. Seeks to Develop Late-Stage Smallpox Antivirals

Biodefense Headlines – 13 July 2025