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Pharmaceuticals

Amryis wins federal funds for drug manufacturing

by Craig Bettenhausen
October 13, 2024 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 102, Issue 32

 

The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $12.3 million to the synthetic biology firm Amyris to develop domestic manufacturing for three small-molecule drugs on the Food and Drug Administration’s drug shortage list. Over the next 2 years, the firm will work with HHS to select and advance targets on the basis of Amyris’s technical capabilities. The award is part of a push from the Joe Biden Administration to deploy federal funds toward shoring up the domestic supply chain for chemicals, especially via biomanufacturing.

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