2020-02087. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Medical CBRN Defense

Notice is hereby given that, on January 16, 2020, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (“MCDC”) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, CFD Research Corporation; Huntsville, AL; GattaCo, Inc.; Murrieta, CA; George Mason University; Fairfax, VA; Nutra Pharma Corporation; Coral Springs, FL, have been added as a party to this venture.

Also, Achaogen, Inc.; San Francisco, CA; Adapt Pharma, Inc.; Radnor, PA; Certara USA; Princeton, NJ; Colorado State University; Fort Collins, CO; Creare, LLC; Hanover, NH; GigaGen, Inc.; San Francisco, CA; Inflammatix, Inc.; Burlingame, CA; Lynntech; College Station, TX; Nano Terra, Inc.; Cambridge, MA; Prosolia, Inc.; Indianapolis, IN; Southern Research Institute; Birmingham, AL; and Spero Therapeutics, Inc.; Cambridge, MA have withdrawn as parties from this venture.

No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned activity of the group research project. Membership in this group research project remains open and MCDC intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On November 13, 2015, MCDC filed its original notification pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on January 6, 2016 (81 FR 513).

The last notification was filed with the Department on October 24, 2019. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on November 25, 2019 (84 FR 64923).

Suzanne Morris,

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.