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Emergent BioSolutions reacts to BARDA’s Request for Proposal cancellation

by Nick Rees on December 8, 2009
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The Office of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has advised Emergent BioSolutions that while BARDA’s Request for Proposal has been canceled, Emergent is encouraged to submit a proposal for the office’s Broad Agency Announcement.
BARDA canceled the RFP for the procurement for rPA vaccines after [...]

Bad News Clouds Two Bio Defense Stocks

Written by Staff and Wire Reports
Tuesday, 08 December 2009 01:28
Key news developments will affect shares of these two companies who help meet the critical needs of the United States and its allies by developing and commercializing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical weapons.
The two companies which waited until late after hours on Monday to announce [...]

EMERGENT BIOSOLUTIONS’ TYPHOID VACCINE CANDIDATE ACHIEVES ENDPOINTS IN PHASE II CLINICAL STUDY

Vaccine well tolerated and immunogenic in double-blind, placebo-controlled study in pediatric population
ROCKVILLE, MD, October 10, 2007— Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) announced today that preliminary results from a recently completed, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase II clinical study demonstrated that its single-dose, drinkable typhoid vaccine candidate achieved the study endpoints for safety and immunogenicity.  In this [...]

New TB Vaccine Candidate Enters Phase IIb Proof-of-Concept Trial in South Africa

OXFORD, UK; ROCKVILLE, MD, USA; CAPE TOWN, ZA – 22 April 2009 – The Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, the Oxford-Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium Ltd. (“the Consortium”), Isis Innovation Ltd., the Wellcome Trust and the University of Cape Town (UCT) announce today the start of a Phase IIb proof-of-concept clinical trial of a promising new TB [...]