There aren't any vaccines or treatments for the painful viral infection chikungunya, but with phase 2 results announced this week, Themis hopes it's one step closer to changing that.
US-based life sciences company Emergent BioSolutions has signed an agreement to purchase specialty vaccines developer PaxVax for $270m under a cash-based consideration.
After getting smallpox vaccine ACAM2000 from Sanofi and an anthrax treatment called raxibacumab from GlaxoSmithKline, Emergent BioSolutions is buying again, this time an entire company: PaxVax.