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Biodefense industry urges Congress to maintain funding and coordination for medical countermeasures
Summary
Representatives of the Alliance for Biosecurity told the House appropriations subcommittee that sustained, predictable funding and improved coordination across the medical countermeasure enterprise are needed to keep vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics ready for biological threats.
Christopher Frank, representing the Alliance for Biosecurity and speaking from industry experience at Emergent BioSolutions, told the Appropriations Subcommittee that medical countermeasure development and manufacturing depend on predictable federal demand, long‑term funding and early private‑public coordination.
Frank said many medical countermeasures…
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