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Suggested Citation: "B Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21809.

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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ASPR Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
   
BARDA Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
BIO Biotechnology Industry Organization
BLA biologics license application
   
CBRN chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CIDRAP Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
CMC chemistry, manufacturing, and controls
CPTR Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens
   
DMID Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
DoD Department of Defense
DST drug susceptibility testing
   
EFPIA European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
EMA European Medicines Agency
EU European Union
EUA emergency use authorization (FDA)
EVD Ebola virus disease
Suggested Citation: "B Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21809.
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FRMM Flu Risk Management Meeting
FSG Foundation Strategy Group
   
GSK GlaxoSmithKline
   
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
   
IND investigational new drug application
IOM Institute of Medicine
IRAT Influenza Risk Assessment Tool
   
MCM medical countermeasure
MERS Middle East respiratory syndrome
MERS-CoV Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
   
NGDS Next Generation Diagnostics System
NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NIH National Institutes of Health
NPV net present value
   
OTA Other Transactions Authority
   
PCAST President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
PHEMCE Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise
PMO phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer (Sarepta Platform)
   
qPCR quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
   
rVSV-ZEBOV-GP recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-based vaccine for the Zaire ebolavirus expressing EBOV glycoprotein (Merck Ebola Vaccine candidate)
Suggested Citation: "B Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21809.
SARS severe acute respiratory syndrome
SNS Strategic National Stockpile
   
TB tuberculosis
   
USAID U.S. Agency for International Development
USAMRID U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
   
VHFC Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium
   
WHO World Health Organization
Suggested Citation: "B Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21809.

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Suggested Citation: "B Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21809.
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Suggested Citation: "B Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21809.
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Suggested Citation: "B Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21809.
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