Gaithersburg
Americannoun
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A drug manufacturer based in Gaithersburg, Md., Emergent signed a contract to manufacture AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine in the summer of 2020 worth $261 million.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
When Kam Khazai refinanced the mortgage on his townhome in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Gaithersburg, Md., he thought he had scored the deal of a lifetime with a 2.9% rate on a 25-year mortgage.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026
A storm swept through the suburbs of Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening amid tornado warnings, damaging a few homes in Gaithersburg, Md., and injuring a handful of people, officials said.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024
“It’s kind of mind-blowing that you would even need to ask this question,” said Matthew Coudron, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023
She’ll race across the Civil War battlefields of Monocacy and Germantown, running through Gaithersburg and Rockville and Bethesda, Maryland.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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