Emergent BioSolutions receives NIAID grant to support tuberculosis vaccine candidate

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 22, 2012-- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) today announced that it has received a multi-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, to advance the development of MVA85A, a candidate vaccine against tuberculosis (TB). The vaccine is being developed through a partnership between Aeras and the Oxford-Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium (OETC), a joint venture between Emergent and the University of Oxford, where the vaccine was originally developed and investigated.