California, USA-based Xoma has been awarded a $65.0 million, multiple year contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a part of the National Institutes of Health, to support the firm's ongoing development of drug candidates towards clinical trials in the treatment of botulism poisoning, a potentially deadly, muscle-paralyzing disease. The contract is the third that NIAID has awarded to Xoma for the development of botulinum antitoxins and brings the program's total to nearly $100.0 million.
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