ATCC, the world’s premier organic supplies administration and requirements group, at the moment introduced a Task Order award with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a element of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
As a part of this award, ATCC, a member of BARDA’s Clinical Studies Network (CSN), operates the CSN’s Biological Specimen and Investigational Product (BSIP) storage facility and offers centralized companies, storage, and distribution of its medical samples and investigational merchandise throughout BARDA-supported research.
“Since 2020, ATCC has been a partner in BARDA’s Clinical Study Network using demonstrated best practices for the safe and secure management of biological specimens,”
Raymond H. Cypess, DVM, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of ATC
Raymond added, “This award is another example of our ongoing support for medical countermeasures development to protect public health and safety.”
This process order is restricted to storing biosafety stage 3 (BSL-3) choose brokers and non-select agent supplies for BARDA beneath the Biological Specimen and Investigational Product (BSIP) program. ATCC will coordinate all duties for chain-of-custody monitoring and specimen dealing with, together with assortment, receipt, storage, stock, retrieval, packaging, distribution, and disposition of those extremely pathogenic brokers and toxins, which might probably pose a extreme menace to the general public or animal well being.
“We look forward to continuing to build our relationship with BARDA through this task order,”
Joseph Leonelli, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and General Manager of ATCC Federal Solutions
Joseph added, “As the premier biological materials and information resource and standards organization, we are committed to supporting critical government clinical studies aimed at developing medical countermeasures to improve the health and safety of our country.”
This challenge has been supported in entire or partly with federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services; Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response; BARDA, beneath Task Order Number 75A50123F33007 beneath Contract Number 75A50120D00013