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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

AstraZeneca buys US vaccine company in $1.1bn deal

Test tubes are seen in front of a displayed AstraZeneca logo.
AstraZeneca’s acquisition of Icosavax is the first time it has bought a vaccine company. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

AstraZeneca is buying its first vaccine company in a $1.1bn deal that will expand the vaccine and immune therapy business it set up during the Covid pandemic.

Britain’s biggest drugmaker has agreed to take over the Seattle-based company Icosavax, which is developing a potential vaccine for two common respiratory diseases.

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