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$56,669,166

Department of Health and Human Services·National Institutes of Health

to GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)

biotechactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2013 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2013-09-23·LATEST ACTION2026-04-06·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_UM1CA181255_075
Award description

AIDS AND CANCER SPECIMEN RESOURCE (ACSR)

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

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In plain English

Funds George Washington University to maintain and provide AIDS and cancer tissue specimens for NIH-supported research.

Sub-sectors
nih-research-grantshiv-aids-researchcancer-research
Why this matters

Critical infrastructure for domestic biomedical research; specimen repositories enable thousands of studies on infectious disease and oncology.

Supply-chain signal

Supports downstream academic and pharmaceutical R&D by providing standardized, quality-controlled biological materials for drug development and basic science.

U.S.–China competition angle

Strengthens U.S. biomedical research capacity in high-priority disease areas where China is also investing heavily in life-sciences infrastructure.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002196.

Period of performance
Start
2013-09-23
End
2026-08-31
Status
activein 104 days
Sources

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