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Department of Health and Human Services·Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

to AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION

biotechactive
ACTION DATE2026-03-11·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_75D30119C04205_7523_-NONE-_-NONE-
Award description

INTERNATIONAL REAGENT RESOURCE (IRR)

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In plain English

Funds the International Reagent Resource to provide biological materials and reagents for infectious disease research and vaccine development.

Sub-sectors
vaccine-developmentreagent-resourcesinfectious-disease-research
Why this matters

IRR is a critical CDC-supported repository enabling global research on emerging pathogens and pandemic preparedness through standardized reagent distribution.

Supply-chain signal

Strengthens domestic capacity for producing and distributing reference materials essential to biotech R&D and diagnostic development pipelines.

U.S.–China competition angle

Ensures U.S. leadership in controlling access to standardized biological reagents used in vaccine and therapeutic development globally.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002177.

Period of performance
Start
2019-03-01
End
2029-02-28
Status
activein 1019 days
Sources

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