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$79,146,088

Department of Health and Human Services·Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

to VEDANTA BIOSCIENCES, INC.

biotechactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2020 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2020-09-28·LATEST ACTION2026-04-02·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75A50120C00177_7505_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

TO DEVELOP MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES (MCMS) THAT TREAT ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT INFECTIONS.

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Develop medical countermeasures to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.

Sub-sectors
medical-countermeasuresantibiotic-resistancemcm-development
Why this matters

Antibiotic resistance is a critical public health threat; MCMs are essential for pandemic preparedness and biodefense.

Supply-chain signal

Signals demand for specialized biotech manufacturing, clinical trial infrastructure, and regulatory pathway support for novel therapeutics.

U.S.–China competition angle

U.S. biodefense investment to maintain leadership in MCM development against emerging resistant pathogens of concern.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002157.

Period of performance
Start
2020-09-28
End
2027-01-31
Status
activein 258 days
Sources

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