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Article: EPA Awards $111M In BioPharma Contracts.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Staff Writer
The Environmental Protection Agency kicked off its ToxCast program by awarding $111 million in contracts to eight biopharmaceutical companies this month. The contracts, which range from $4 million to $69 million, are part of an initiative that will use drug discovery technologies to predict the toxicity of environmental chemicals.
Initiated last year by the EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT), ToxCast seeks to maximize the limited resources with which the EPA must evaluate thousands of environmental chemicals. The program will use pharmaceutical industry approaches such as high-throughput screening, toxicogenomics and ...