Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract valued at up to $22.2 million through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority's (BARDA) Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Preparedness Consortium (BioMaP-Consortium). The project aims to develop innovations to strengthen and reduce the costs of domestic biomanufacturing of monoclonal antibodies for protection against and treatment of infections caused by filoviruses such as Ebola and Sudan viruses. The initiative will focus on producing an anti-filovirus monoclonal antibody cocktail, 1C3 and 1C11, originally developed by Emory University. Ginkgo Bioworks will collaborate with partners including ABL, Isolere Bio by Donaldson, NeuImmune, and ProteoNic to advance biomanufacturing technologies as part of this federally funded project.