Almac Sciences, a member of the Almac Group, has been awarded a grant of approximately $500,000 by the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator towards developing cost effective, scalable processes for the production of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) of the drug remdesivir.   Remdesivir, an antiviral medication, is the first drug to be approved by the U.S. FDA as a treatment for COVID-19 after a trial showed it cut recovery time by five days. In order to ultimately lower raw material usage,...