Chimerix Awarded BARDA Contract for Advanced Development of CMX001 as Medical Countermeasure Against Smallpox

February 16, 2011
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Chimerix, Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing orally available antiviral therapeutics, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for the advanced development of Chimerix’s broad spectrum antiviral drug candidate, CMX001, as a medical countermeasure in the event of a smallpox release.