Article: Grant Gives Alnylam $23M For Anti-Ebola Virus Work.

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For the second time in about a week, the feds tapped a biotech firm for research into hemorrhagic fever virus, including Ebola, and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. stands to gain $23 million over the next four years from the anti-terror contract.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Alnylam is putting its expertise in small interfering RNAs to work on the project, and establishing Alnylam Biodefense, through which the firm plans to build a platform for RNAi drugs against potential bioterrorism.

"[Defense experts] do believe Ebola is a potentially weaponizable virus," said Zachary Zimmerman, director of external alliances for Alnylam, who was ...

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