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Cytiva tasked with COVID-19 vaccine work as part of $31M U.S. government grant

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  • cafead   Oct 14, 2020 at 06:12: PM
via With the U.S. working at a rapid clip to scale capacity for a range of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, stateside companies are snagging big down payments on the taxpayers' dime. Now, the government is cutting a check to a former General Electric business to help chip in.

The Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has shelled out $31 million to Boston-area technology and solutions provider Cytiva to pitch in on COVID-19 vaccine-related components, including cell culture media and bioreactors.

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