Gaithersburg company lands $10.2M DOD contract for war on superbugs

The federal government has tapped a local company to help defend against superbugs. Gaithersburg’s Adaptive Phage Therapeutics Inc. has earned a $10.2 million contract with the Department of Defense to help advance PhageBank, APT's collection of viruses that target specific pathogens and kill drug-resistant bacteria. The ultimate goal is to make its therapy for drug-resistant i nfections available to the U.S. military and the public, APT said Wednesday. A cure for superbugs represents a major…
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