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J&J picks Emergent to make COVID-19 vaccine

by Michael McCoy
May 2, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 17

 

Johnson & Johnson has hired Emergent BioSolutions as a US manufacturing partner for its lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Under the pact, worth about $135 million, Emergent will make the vaccine’s active ingredient starting later this year at its facility in Baltimore. J&J also signed a deal to use capacity at Catalent’s biologic drug facility in Bloomington, Indiana. J&J has a plan to produce 1 billion doses of its adenovirus-based vaccine.

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