VaxGen gets $878 million US contract
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The federal government awarded an $878 million anthrax vaccine contract to a Brisbane biotech company Thursday, ordering a stockpile of 75 million doses to guard against terrorist attacks.
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The U.S. government on Tuesday  awarded Sanofi-Aventis a contract worth up to $41 million  through 2008 to maintain a supply of eggs year-round that could  be used in flu vaccine production.
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The developing biopharmaceutical company announces a share offering.
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Medarex Inc., a Princeton, NJ, biotechnology company, could receive up to $510 million under a global collaboration deal it signed with New York-based Pfizer Inc.
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VaxGen, which shifted its focus to bioterrorism treatments after failures in HIV research, has won an $877 million contract to supply the United States government with anthrax vaccine.
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Information technology provider Computer Sciences Corp. on Wednesday said it received a contract worth up to $74.8 million to provide hospital data abstraction and validation services to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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The management and employees of American healthcare company Medex will receive $105m (Â£54m) as a result of its acquisition by Smiths Group, the British engineering concern.
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Shares of VaxGen Inc. surged 17 percent Friday after the government said it would buy 75 million doses of a new generation anthrax vaccine under an $877.
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Danish vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic   said on Monday it had won a U.S. government contract  for the manufacture and delivery of 20 million doses of the  company&#39;s smallpox vaccine, Imvamune.
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EDS U.S. Government in Herndon won a $92 million contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to administer and manage software applications that process Medicare claims in 12 states.
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InfoWorld - The chairman of the world&#39;s largest contract electronics manufacturer, which assembles gadgets from Apple&#160;iPods to Nintendo&#39;s Wii game console, pledged NT$15 billion (US$454.4 million) to Taiwan&#39;s most prestigious university to build a new cancer ward and fund research against the disease.
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Shares of ID Biomedical jumped after the Canadian drug maker reported Monday that it signed long-term agreements with the three largest flu vaccine wholesalers in the United States following the current flu season&#39;s vaccine shortage.
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday  approved the importation of up to 4 million doses of influenza  vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, bringing the U.S. total to 65  million vaccines for this flu season.
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Smiths Group Plc, which makes insulin pumps and anthrax-detection systems for the US Postal Service, agreed to buy Medex Inc. for $625 million in cash to expand its medical-equipment division.
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The US Joint Forces Command has awarded a $29 million contract to design, establish and maintain a Joint Advanced Training Technology Laboratory to Anteon International Corp.
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Federal health officials yesterday scuttled the largest piece of the Bush administration's two-year program to counter bioterrorism, canceling a $877.5 million contract with VaxGen to develop an anthrax vaccine after the company missed a deadline to begin human testing.
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HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today that HHS has awarded a contract for $877.5 million to VaxGen, Inc. to manufacture and deliver 75 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine.