Emergent BioSolutions partners with Substipharm for JE vaccine manufacturing

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Emergent BioSolutions and Substipharm Biologics Announce Strategic Manufacturing Partnership to Support Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine in the United States

April 28, 2026 8:01 AM EDT

Emergents Canton facility will manufacture drug substance and obtains exclusive distribution rights

GAITHERSBURG, Md. and GENEVA, April 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Substipharm Biologics valued at approximately $34.5 million to support drug substance manufacturing for its Japanese Encephalitis (JE) vaccine, licensed internationally under the brand name IMOJEV® at Emergents Canton, Massachusetts facility, and for Emergent to serve as the exclusive distributor of the vaccine to the U.S. government, following potential U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)... More