The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the nonprofit biological resource center and standards organization American Type Culture Collection a contract with a total value of $333 million to support the Biological and Emerging Infections Research Resources Program. Critical to the work of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectio...
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced more than $500 million in awards to support companies as they move their vaccine candidates to Phase 2b clinical trials and further develop new technologies as part of Project NextGen. Project NextGen is a $5 billion government initiative that seeks to speed up the development of...
Artificial intelligence is taking the world by storm, and its potential use cases are seemingly endless within the federal government, where agencies are looking for new ways to apply this rapidly advancing technology to support their missions. One area in which AI is shaping the future is healthcare, and the Department of Health and Human Serv...
The Department of Health and Human Services is investing more than $1.4 billion in developing next-generation vaccines and therapeutics against COVID-19. The funds are part of the government’s $5 billion Project NextGen initiative to enable the rapid development of longer-lasting COVID-19 vaccines, a new antibody therapy and technologies to ad...
Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE: EBS) will further develop a licensed drug against Ebola under a potential 10-year, $704 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services. Development services on Ebanga under the contract are valued at $121 million and the award includes a five-year option worth $583 million for the U.S. government to pr...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has begun seeking proposals for the second iteration of its accelerator program to advance the rapid development and commercialization of medical countermeasures. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov states that BARDA Accelerator Network 2.0 aim...
A Department of Health and Human Services office has begun seeking proposals for a potential 10-year, $10 billion multiple-purpose acquisition vehicle that aims to advance the rapid development and commercialization of medical countermeasures. A notice posted Friday on SAM.gov says that BARDA seeks to enter into an other transaction authority agreem...
As the federal government embraces artificial intelligence, the impacts of the technology can be seen in multiple sectors, including health care. Department of Health and Human Services Chief Information Officer Dr. Karl Mathias highlighted three major areas of AI progress he’s seeing within the health care sector during his keynote address a...
J&J Worldwide Services holds a spot on a potential 10-year, $75 billion contract managed by the Department of Health and Human Services and is eligible to pursue task orders to help HHS manage influx care facilities. The company said Monday it will compete for work under the contract’s direct care, facilities management and wrap-around ser...
The Department of Health and Human Services has outlined several focus areas of a $5 billion government initiative to fund public-private collaborations working to speed up the development of next-generation vaccines and other therapeutics. Project NextGen aims to streamline the process from drug development to government approval to prepare and pro...
