Evotec SE today announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (“DOD”) has awarded Evotec’s Seattle-based subsidiary, Just – Evotec Biologics, Inc. a contract valued up to $ 49.9 m for the rapid development of monoclonal antibody (“mAb”)-based drug product prototypes targeting plague. Plague, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (“Y. pestis”), is one of the designated targets of interest under the DOD’s Accelerated Antibodies Program.
