Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Evrys Bio Awarded $34 Million from DOD to Develop a Single Drug Simultaneously Effective ... Evrys BioJuly 13, 2021 GMT DOYLESTOWN, Pa., July 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Evrys Bio, a biotech company developing Next Gen Antivirals, was awarded a $34.3 million contract from the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop a drug, simultaneously effective against multiple high-risk viral agents. The proposed drug intends to improve disease survival after exposure to one or more viruses from three families: alphaviruses, arenaviruses and filoviruses. Evrys Bio’s broad-spectrum antiviral technology is based on the discovery that certain human proteins, called sirtuins, normally defend the human (host) cell from being invaded by pathogens. The novel drug will target the human SIRT-2 protein.