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Fuad el-Hibri, king of anthrax, wins an award from Ernst & Young

Marie-José Daoud
Awarded the Ernst and Young prize for Entrepreneur of the year 2009 in the Technology category for the Greater Washington region last June, Fuad El-Hibri is the CEO of Emergent Biosolutions, an American company that supplies the anthrax vaccine to the American government. He is in line for the national E&Y 2009 prize, which [...]

Bad News Clouds Two Bio Defense Stocks

Written by Staff and Wire Reports
Tuesday, 08 December 2009 01:28
Key news developments will affect shares of these two companies who help meet the critical needs of the United States and its allies by developing and commercializing medical countermeasures against biological and chemical weapons.
The two companies which waited until late after hours on Monday to announce [...]

Emergent BioSolutions reacts to BARDA’s Request for Proposal cancellation

by Nick Rees on December 8, 2009
Fuad El-Hibri
The Office of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has advised Emergent BioSolutions that while BARDA’s Request for Proposal has been canceled, Emergent is encouraged to submit a proposal for the office’s Broad Agency Announcement.
BARDA canceled the RFP for the procurement for rPA vaccines after [...]

EMERGENT BIOSOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES DR. STEPHEN LOCKHART JOINS COMPANY TO LEAD COMMERCIAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SUBSIDIARY

Dr. Lockhart Brings Top-Tier Pharma Leadership to Development of Company’s Commercial Product Portfolio
ROCKVILLE, MD, October 18, 2007—Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) announced today that Dr. Stephen Lockhart has been appointed President, Emergent Product Development UK.  Dr. Lockhart will be based at the company’s office located in Wokingham, England, and his responsibilities will include providing [...]

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REMAINS COMMITTED TO PROCUREMENT OF BIOTHRAX® UNDER CURRENT CONTRACT

ROCKVILLE, MD, November 19, 2007 —Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) announced today that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has reaffirmed its commitment to continue to purchase BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) under the current contract for 18.75 million doses that provides for a firm fixed price of $400 million plus an additional $34 [...]

Fuad El-Hibri From Wikipedia

Fuad El-Hibri (born March 2, 1958) is an American businessman, and CEO of Emergent BioSolutions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuad_El-Hibri
Fuad El-Hibri (born March 2, 1958) in Hildesheim, Germany, spent his childhood equally in Europe and the Middle East before coming to the USA to get an economics degree from Stanford and an MBA from Yale.
Mr.El-Hibri earned a Masters Degree [...]

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES REMAINS COMMITTED TO PROCUREMENT OF BIOTHRAX® UNDER CURRENT CONTRACT

ROCKVILLE, MD, November 19, 2007 —Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) announced today that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has reaffirmed its commitment to continue to purchase BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) under the current contract for 18.75 million doses that provides for a firm fixed price of $400 million plus an additional $34 [...]

Emergent Biosolutions Delivers Over 3 Million Doses Of Biothrax® To U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services For Strategic National Stockpile

Delivery represents approximately $75 million of revenue for 4Q 2006; Company on track to deliver remaining 1 million doses in 1Q 2007—

GAITHERSBURG, MD, December 14, 2006—Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) today announced that it has successfully completed the 4Q 2006 deliveries of over three million doses of BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed), the only FDA licensed [...]