Buffalo-based CUBRC could earn $67 million for work on the behalf of the federal government.
Through a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), CUBRC will investigate potential medical treatments for a handful of conditions that currently have no cure.
"Our country, and frankly our world at large, face a growing threat," says Anne Radcliff, director of biological & medical sciences at CUBRC. "That's a threat from deadly infections for which treatments are nonexistent or inadequate. These diseases could be caused by either man made threats, in the case of biological weapons, or emerge naturally."
One of the tasks of the HHS is to fill the gaps in the government's response to possible medical scenarios.
