Emergent

History

YearDetail
1998 El-Hibri founded Emergent (then BioPort).
2003 The company acquired the first Maryland-based site in Gaithersburg.
2009 The company acquired a manufacturing facility in Baltimore's neighborhood.
2014 Emergent acquired Cangene Corp. for an aggregate purchase price of $222 million, expanding the growing biodefense market.
2017 The company acquired the smallpox (Vaccinia) Vaccine, Live) business ACAM2000, from Sanofi,  and Raxibacumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment and prophylaxis of inhalational anthrax, from GSK.
2018 The company acquired Adapt Pharma and its product, NARCAN.
2022 The company acquired TEMBEXA, an oral antiviral vaccine for the treatment of smallpox, from Chimerix. It further collaborated with Ridgeback Therapeutics on Ebanga Treatment for Ebola.