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###### Department of Justice

###### Antitrust Division

                    Notice is hereby given that, on December 14, 2017, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301*et seq.*                     (“the Act”), Pistoia Alliance, Inc. has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Vivenics, Oss, THE NETHERLANDS; Francisco J. Fernandez (individual member), Madrid, SPAIN; Arxspan, Southborough, MA; Andrew Conkie (individual member), Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM; Till Dettmering (individual member), Frankfurt, GERMANY; Healthcare Impact Foundation, New York, NY; Medley Genomics, Providence, RI; cubuslab GmbH, Karlsruhe, GERMANY; grit42, Copenhagen, DENMARK; and Phenomic AI Inc., Toronto, CANADA, have been added as parties to this venture.                

Also, Instem, Melbourne, UNITED KINGDOM, has withdrawn as a party to this venture.

No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned activity of the group research project. Membership in this group research project remains open, and Pistoia Alliance, Inc. intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

                    On May 28, 2009, Pistoia Alliance, Inc. filed its original notification pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice in the                     **Federal Register**                     pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on July 15, 2009 (74 FR 34364).                

                    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 3, 2017. A notice was published in the                     **Federal Register**                     pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on November 13, 2017 (82 FR 52318).                

Patricia A. Brink,

Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 2018-01060 Filed 1-19-18; 8:45 am]

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