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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF MARCH 25,1998 PSA#2059U.S. Agency for International Development, M/OP/A/HRN, Room 7.10-031,
Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20523-7101 R -- COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE THE CONTRACEPTIVE RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM POC Contact Point: K. Frascella, via internet:
kfrascella@usaid.gov, Tel: 202/712-5977, Fax: 202/216-3052 USAID
intends to sign a five-year, non-competitive cooperative agreement with
Eastern Virginia Medical School for a program to provide The
Contraceptive Research and Development Program. The Contraceptive
Research and Development (CONRAD) Program, operated by Eastern Virginia
Medical School (EVMS) and located in Arlington and Norfolk, Virginia,
represents an important resource to USAID for conducting biomedical
research on the development of contraceptives and related reproductive
health technologies. The project implemented by CONRAD supports
research leading to the development of improved and new methods of
family planning primarily for use in developing countries. In addition,
CONRAD supports research leading to the development of technologies,
such as microbicides, which may prevent the transmission of sexually
transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. The primary focus of the
CONRAD Program is on the early stages of contraceptive research and
development, beginning with targeted or applied research studies and
progressing through the first two phases of clinical testing in humans;
CONRAD does not support basic research with USAID funds. The Program
supports extramural subprojects conducted by investigators in the US
and worldwide as well as laboratory and clinical research conducted
intramurally at the CONRAD Clinical Research Program housed at the
Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at EVMS. CONRAD has been
successful in leveraging USAID's financial support by attracting
additional funding from other sources; for example, private foundations
created and currently fund a Consortium for Industrial Collaboration in
Contraceptive Research at CONRAD. (0082) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0092 19980325\R-0010.SOL)
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