WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Encorium Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENCO - News), a full-service multinational contract research organization (CRO) that provides design, development, and management capabilities for clinical trials and patient registries for many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies today announced the signing of a $1.6 million contract with Protherics, a leading UK biopharmaceutical company, for a Phase 2 trial of its novel immunotherapeutic vaccine, Angiotensin Therapeutic Vaccine (ATV), for the treatment of hypertension.