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A -- BIOLOGICAL WARFARE DEFENSE RESEARCH DUE 040998 POC Lisa L. Rosenbaum, Code 1115LR, (803) 974-5982, Contracting Officer, Jean C. Duncan E-MAIL: SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston, rosenbal@spawar.navy.mil. BIOLOGICAL WARFARE DEFENSE (BWD). The SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston intends to award a $1.1 million Research and Development (R&D) sole-source contract to Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) BWD program. Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research will investigate the identities of human longevity assurance genes (hLAGs) and human longevity assurance factors (hLAFs). Human responsiveness to environmental insults such as toxins and infectious diseases varies from individual to individual. Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research hypothesizes that those individuals, centenarians, who 100 years or more may possess defenses against such toxin and infectious environmental insults, which are extremely efficient. Lady Davis is the only source capable of performing this work because of the expertise in this field. This action is a result of an unsolicited proposal. THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT A REQUEST FOR COMPETITIVE PROPOSALS. Any responses to this announcement are due 7 days from the date this notice is published to the header address, POC Lisa L. Rosenbaum, Code 1115LR. SEE NOTE #22. (0093)

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