Fort Collins biopharma company lands $20.3M defense contract

FORT COLLINS — A Fort Collins biopharma company has landed a $20.3 million federal contract to develop a wound-wash product that the Department of Defense and civil defense agencies can use to decontaminate chemical wounds.
Armis Biopharma Inc. received the contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency; the money will be used to further develop its proprietary Veriox DECON chemical warfare agent decontamination product for use in battlefield wounds.
“We’ve been working on this for quite a while,” said Ted Ziemann, chairman and CEO of Armis. “It’s important because, two things, with what’s happening in the world right now — developing…
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