Anthrax Vaccines

Emergent BioSolutions Gains Rights To VaxImmune From Coley Pharmaceutical Group to Expand Its Anthrax Franchise

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 28th, 2007

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced that it has signed a license agreement with Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:COLY) for the use of Coley's proprietary VaxImmune(TM) vaccine adjuvant compound. Emergent intends to utilize VaxImmune in the development of new anthrax vaccines. Financial terms of the license agreement were not disclosed.

Coley's VaxImmune is a proprietary Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist designed to induce both an enhanced antibody response and a potent killer T cell immune response to infections in order to achieve and sustain a clinical response without compromising safety.

"As a leading developer of both...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-03-28)

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