AVI Developing Swine Flu Drugs
Luke Timmerman6/22/09
AVI Biopharma, a Portland, OR-based developer of RNA-based drugs, said today it has secured a contract with the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency to develop drugs for H1N1, or swine flu. Under the contract, worth as much as $5.1 million, AVI will analyze the H1N1 sequence, determine appropriate targets and identify lead and back-up candidate drugs. The company (NASDAQ: AVII) also plans to do animal tests.













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