On September 7, the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS') Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response announced an $8.2 million contract award to Moderna Therapuetics of Cambridge, MA to help speed the development of a novel vaccine to prevent the spread of the Zika virus. The full announcement is available here.

 

ANCOR is a member of a coalition led by the March of Dimes that is working to support Zika virus prevention funding in Congress. (See WICs article, "ANCOR Joins Effort to Fight Zika Virus," August 8, 2016.)