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• Emergent will provide CDMO services for AstraZeneca’ AZD1222. The agreement valued ~174M through 2021 and follows an $87M agreement signed in June for development services- performance and process qualification- raw materials- and an initial capacity reservation
• The two companies may enter additional commercial manufacturing agreement as the candidate progresses over three years through Emergent’s flexible capacity deployment model. The agreement follows CDMO partnership b/w Emergent and the BARDA signed in June to pave the way for OWS high-priority innovators
• The University of Oxford and its spin-out company- Vaccitech co-invented AZD1222 and was licensed to AstraZeneca. The vaccine is under clinical trial for COVID-19

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