Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Pistoia Alliance, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on December 8, 2021, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Pistoia Alliance, Inc. has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade ( printed page 20464) Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Semalytix GmbH, Bielefeld, GERMANY; Schrodinger, Portland, NY; SAGE Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA; Rapid Novor, Waterloo, CANADA; Matador Japan KK, Nagano, JAPAN; Claire Bellamy (individual member), Leicestershire, UNITED KINGDOM; Chitrita Goswami (individual member), New Delhi, INDIA; Eurofins Discovery, St. Charles, MO; Centre for Process Innovation, Wilton, UNITED KINGDOM; and Artificial Inc., Palo Alto, CA have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, WorldQuant Predictive, New York, NY; telic, New York, NY; Synthace Ltd, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Sapio Sciences, Baltimore, MD; PHEMI Systems Corp., Vancouver, CANADA; Mcule, Budapest, HUNGARY; GenAIz, Montreal, CANADA; and Apheris AI GmbH, Berlin, GERMANY have withdrawn as parties to this venture.

No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned activity of the group research project. Membership in this group research project remains open, and Pistoia Alliance, Inc. intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On May 28, 2009, Pistoia Alliance, Inc. filed its original notification pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on July 15, 2009 (74 FR 34364).

The last notification was filed with the Department on September 12, 2021. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on October 5, 2021 (86 FR 55002).