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  • Recombinetics to Develop Alzheimer's, Neurofibromatosis Swine Models for NIH - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Recombinetics to Develop Alzheimer’s, Neurofibromatosis Swine Models for NIH

    Recombinetics has secured a pair of grants worth more than $700,000 combined from two National Institutes of Health organizations to create humanized swine models of Alzheimer’s disease and Neurofibromatosis type 2. The biotechnology company will develop the swine models for the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke under NIH’s Small Business Innovative Research […] More

  • VLP Therapeutics to Develop Malaria Vaccine Under Army Grant; Wataru Akahata Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VLP Therapeutics to Develop Malaria Vaccine Under Army Grant; Wataru Akahata Comments

    VLP Therapeutics has received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Army to research and develop a vaccine against malaria. The service branch awarded the research grant through the Defense Department’s Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program, the company said Thursday. Wataru Akahata, founder and CEO of VLP Therapeutics, said the company has developed VLPM01, an experimental […] More

  • NIST, Stanford University Enter Partnership to Foster Biotech Measurement Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST, Stanford University Enter Partnership to Foster Biotech Measurement Infrastructure

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology will collaborate with Stanford University to develop measurement units for biotechnology products and services in sectors such as healthcare, energy and electronics. NIST said Friday the NIST-Stanford Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology looks to engage academia, industry and government in the development of tools that would help establish units of measurement for […] More

  • Minuteman Security Solutions Lands Army Detection System Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Minuteman Security Solutions Lands Army Detection System Contract

    Andover, Massachusetts-based security system supplier Minuteman Security Solutions has landed a potential six-year, $24 million contract with options from the U.S. Army to deliver the Integrated Commercial Intrusion Detection System. The Army Contracting Command received three bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through an Internet solicitation process, the Defense Department said Friday. TICIDS is a standardized intrusion detection system designed to […] More

  • Battelle's Matthew Shaw: US, Int'l Partners Focus on Early Bio-Threat Detection Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle’s Matthew Shaw: US, Int’l Partners Focus on Early Bio-Threat Detection Systems

    Battelle‘s Matthew Shaw has outlined what he says is a growing focus of U.S. and international government, intelligence and law enforcement organizations on technologies to detect and classify biological threats that are both natural man-made. Shaw, head of the CBRNE defense business within Battelle’s national security segment, writes in a piece published Monday on Homeland Security Today that the […] More

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