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Emergent advances agreement for J&J COVID-19 vaccine

by Rick Mullin
July 11, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 27

 

Emergent BioSolutions has signed a 5-year contract to provide large-scale manufacturing of Johnson & Johnson’s investigational COVID-19 vaccine, Ad26.COV2-S, at its facility in Baltimore. The deal is valued at $480 million for the first 2 years. It follows a $135 million agreement the firms announced in April to reserve capacity and transfer technology. J&J also has a deal to use capacity at Catalent’s biologic drug facility in Bloomington, Indiana. The drugmaker has said it plans to produce 1 billion doses of the adenovirus-based vaccine.

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