Emergent BioSolutions
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Emergent BioSolutions Inc. is an American multinational specialty biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.[2] It develops vaccines and antibody therapeutics for infectious diseases and opioid overdoses, and it provides medical devices for biodefense purposes.
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Company type | Public company |
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Founded | September 5, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-09-05) (as BioPort Inc.) |
Founder | Fuad El-Hibri |
Headquarters | Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S. |
Key people | Haywood Miller (interim CEO) Zsolt Harsanyi (Chairman) |
Revenue | US$1.793 billion (2021)[1] |
US$352.6 million (2021)[1] | |
US$230.9 million (2021)[1] | |
Number of employees | 2,416 (December 31, 2021)[1] |
Website | www |
Among the company's products are the controversial BioThrax (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed),[3] the only anthrax vaccine licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Narcan (naloxone) for the emergency treatment of opioid overdose. The company also manufactures pharmaceuticals for infectious diseases like cholera and typhoid.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Emergent BioSolutions also produced Johnson & Johnson/Janssen and Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccines at one of its plants; however, this was marked by contamination and other production issues, and millions of doses of vaccine had to be discarded.