Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ANAC)

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9:09AM Anacor Pharma Awarded U.S. Government Funding to Discover New Classes of Systemic Antibiotics (ANAC) 13.83 : Co announces has entered into a research agreement with the United States Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency to design and discover new classes of systemic antibiotics. A drug discovery consortium formed by Anacor, Colorado State University and the University of California at Berkeley will conduct the research over a three and a half year period. The work is funded by a "3.5 mln award from DTRA's R&D Innovation and Systems Engineering Office which was established to search for and execute strategic investments in innovative technologies for combating weapons of mass destruction.