SRI International awarded contract for NCI PREVENT program

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SRI INTERNATIONAL was awarded a contract of up to $9 million to provide preclinical development services to the NCI PREVENT Cancer Program.

Under the contract, SRI will provide scientific expertise, modern testing and support facilities, and analytical instrumentation to conduct a wide variety of preclinical pharmacology and toxicology studies to evaluate potential cancer prevention drugs.

The PREVENT Cancer Drug Development Program is an NCI-supported pipeline to bring new cancer preventing interventions and biomarkers through preclinical development towards clinical trials. PREVENT enables milestone-driven progression of novel cancer preventive chemical or biological agents and biomarkers from the laboratory bench towards proof-of-principle clinical testing and registration or validation.

The current contract calls for SRI to deliver high-quality laboratory data to support NCI-PCP’s efforts to develop promising therapeutic candidates such as vaccines and cancer chemopreventive agents that will inhibit, delay or reverse manifestations of cancer. SRI will be responsible for managing therapeutic candidates from conception to submission of an Investigational New Drug application to FDA.

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