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Thompson Announces $1.5 Million Defense Department Grant for Riptide Bioscience

Press Release

Date: Oct. 9, 2015
Location: Washington, D.C.
Issues: Science Health and Health Care Government Budget and Spending

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced a $1.5 million Defense Department grant for Riptide Bioscience, Inc. Riptide Bioscience is based in Vallejo on Mare Island. The grant, part of the US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), will go towards a research project titled the "Evaluation of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides as Topical Anti-Infectives with Broad Spectrum Activity Against Combat-Related Bacterial and Fungal Wound Infections."

"For several years, Riptide has been doing cutting-edge medical research right here in Vallejo," said Thompson. "Their research into wound-healing applications will provide great benefits to those in our military as well as the general population. Some 75 percent of recent war injuries are the result of ballistic wounds, and our Riptide is finding new and better methods to fight infections that result from those wounds. Their work will benefit our local economy, and I'm proud to support this kind of leading medical science emerging from our district."


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