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U.S. Announces Cooperative BW Nonproliferation Effort With RussiaFrom Tuesday, September 16, 2003 issue.
The U.S. State Department yesterday announced a $1.7 million contract to support collaboration between U.S. and Russian scientific centers as part of a new biological nonproliferation effort (see GSN, Aug. 18).
The contract will help fund collaboration between the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology in Boston and the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow, according to a State press release. The contract was awarded through the department’s BioIndustry Initiative, which seeks to transform Russian biological weapons facilities into civilian institutions through U.S.-Russian research partnerships (U.S. State Department release, Sept. 15).
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