Federal Initiatives
MedicalCountermeasures.gov can help you keep up-to-date on the latest developments in federal medical countermeasures activities, with information on public meetings and conferences, procurement and grant opportunities, strategies, reports, federal guidance on the development of medical countermeasures, and other announcements.
- Public Meetings and Conferences
Provides links to information about public meetings, both upcoming and past, on issues pertaining to public health threats, both naturally occurring and manmade. Also included are links to online Meeting Libraries, such as the NIH Videocasting site. - Procurements and Grants
Provides links to resources on grants and procurement opportunities available to those involved in the research, development and acquisition of medical countermeasures products, including Grants.gov, and grants available through the National Institutes of Health. Links to information on federal acquisition regulations are also available on this page. - Strategies and Reports
Provides links to sources of information useful to those involved in the research, development, and acquisition of medical countermeasures products, including Project Bioshield, and Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise. This section also includes a directory of links to related websites that are developed and maintained by individual Federal Agencies. - Guidance
Provides links to relevant federal guidance on issues related to the development medical countermeasures, including information on Emergency Use Authorization, the Animal Efficacy Rule, and the Select Agent Rule. - Resources
The Federal Government has launched several major initiatives intended to accelerate basic research and development of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics for naturally occurring and manmade threats. This section includes resources that relate to microbiology, immunology and testing, and genomics.
PHEMCE Newsroom
- September 06, 2012 - 2011 BioShield Annual Report to Congress
- September 06, 2012 - New HHS contracts enhance pandemic preparedness
- August 20, 2012 - NIAID issues funding opportunity for treatments for Gastrointestinal Acute Radiation Syndrome
- August 10, 2012 - Acquisition and Advanced Development of a Colony Stimulating Factor (G- or GM-CSF) for mitigation of neutropenia arising from exposure to ionizing radiation
- June 30, 2012 - Solicitation Posted: Anthrax Antitoxins for the Treatment of Inhalational Anthrax