Document

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Medical CBRN Defense Consortium

<html> <head> <title>Federal Register, Volume 91 Issue 1 (Friday, January 2, 2026)</title> </head> <body><pre> [Federal Register Volume 91, Number 1 (Friday, January 2, 2026)] [...

<html>
<head>
<title>Federal Register, Volume 91 Issue 1 (Friday, January 2, 2026)</title>
</head>
<body><pre>
[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 1 (Friday, January 2, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 162-163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-24166]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Medical CBRN Defense Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 3, 2025, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Medical CBRN Defense Consortium 
(``MCDC'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade 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, Concept To Market LLC, Monrovia, MD; GeneInfoSec, Inc. 
Huntsville, AL; IQM Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI; Lactea 
Therapeutics, LLC, Frederick, MD; Southern Research Institute, 
Birmingham, AL; Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, College 
Station, TX; and Trustees of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN have 
been added as parties to this venture.
    Also, DNA TwoPoint, Inc. dba ATUM, Newark, CA has withdrawn as a 
party 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 MCDC intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On November 13, 2015, MCDC 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 
January 6, 2016 (81 FR 513).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 1, 
2025. A

[[Page 163]]

notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) 
of the Act on June 13, 2025 (90 FR 25082).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-24166 Filed 12-31-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE P


</pre></body>
</html>

Legal Citation

Federal Register Citation

Use this for formal legal and research references to the published document.

91 FR 162

Web Citation

Suggested Web Citation

Use this when citing the archival web version of the document.

“Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Medical CBRN Defense Consortium,” thefederalregister.org (January 2, 2026), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2025-24166/notice-pursuant-to-the-national-cooperative-research-and-production-act-of-1993-medical-cbrn-defense-consortium.