MENLO PARK, CA--(Marketwire - September 15, 2008) - SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development organization, today announced the initiation of a tuberculosis (TB) preclinical drug evaluation program in partnership with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The new program is part of the $56.9 million contract NIAID first awarded to SRI in 2006 to provide preclinical services for the development of drugs and antibodies as anti-infective therapeutics.
