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Best in Biotech 28 Dec 2020

A Year to Remember: The Biggest European Biotech News in 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic caused huge disruption for European biotech in 2020, but the industry pulled through. Let’s look back at some of the top moments in the last 12 months. After the many drug approvals, startup foundations, and venture capital highs we saw in 2019, it looked like 2020 was going to be a comfortable […]

December 28, 2020 - 12 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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News and Trends 22 Dec 2020

EMA Greenlights BioNTech and Pfizer mRNA Vaccine for Covid-19

BioNTech and Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, made from messenger RNA, has become the first of its kind to be approved by the EMA. The EMA has granted conditional approval to Comirnaty, a vaccine against Covid-19 developed by BioNTech and Pfizer. The approval comes weeks after the UK became the first country in the world to approve […]

December 22, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 19 Nov 2020

mRNA Stocks Soar with Final Results of BioNTech’s Covid-19 Vaccine

The field of messenger RNA therapeutics is flying high as BioNTech and Pfizer conclude a phase III trial with their Covid-19 vaccine showing 95% effectiveness. The phase III trial recruited over 43,000 volunteers to gauge whether Covid-19 infections could be prevented by a vaccine made out of messenger RNA (mRNA). One group received two doses […]

November 19, 2020 - 6 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 3 Jul 2020

Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine Shows Phase I Promise

A vaccine made out of messenger RNA (mRNA), developed by the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, has produced antibodies against the Covid-19 pathogen in healthy volunteers. The results come from an interim analysis of an ongoing phase I clinical trial in 45 participants. So far, all test subjects who received two […]

July 3, 2020 - 3 minutesmins - By Victor Kotsev

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News and Trends 29 Apr 2020

Update: BioNTech and Pfizer’s mRNA Vaccine for Covid-19 Tested in Humans

Update (29/04/2020): A vaccine developed by the German company BioNTech and its big pharma partner Pfizer has become the first European mRNA vaccine for Covid-19 to enter human testing in a phase I/II trial. Since dosing began last week, twelve volunteers in Germany have been given the vaccine. The first part of the trial — […]

April 29, 2020 - 5 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

In Depth 30 Mar 2020

Could mRNA Vaccines Fulfill Their Potential Against Coronavirus?

The first vaccine against coronavirus disease could one day be made of mRNA. How is mRNA showing promise against the pandemic, and what could it signify for the mRNA field? The global number of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases has passed 600,000 and is threatening to bring healthcare systems worldwide to their knees. To control the […]

March 30, 2020 - 7 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 16 Jan 2020

BioNTech Expands Cancer Portfolio With US Biotech Acquisition

German cancer specialist BioNTech will acquire US T-cell therapy biotech Neon Therapeutics in a deal worth €60M, both to expand its cancer therapy pipeline and establish a US base. The deal is expected to complete in the second half of 2020, after which Neon will operate as a subsidiary of BioNTech. BioNTech has arguably scooped […]

January 16, 2020 - 2 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

News and Trends 6 Jan 2020

BioNTech’s RNA-Boosted CAR T-Cell Therapy Shrinks Tumors in Mice

A CAR T-cell therapy amplified by RNA technology, developed by BioNTech, has shown preclinical potential for tackling solid tumors, which are hard to treat with current CAR T-cell therapies. In a study published in Science, the CAR T-cell and RNA combination therapy suppressed tumors in mice implanted with human ovarian cancer for longer than regular […]

January 6, 2020 - 2 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

Interview 18 Dec 2019

How BioNTech Navigates the Biotech Fundraising Maze

BioNTech is on a mission to individualize cancer therapy by developing a range of different innovative therapies, a task that can be a rollercoaster ride, according to its Chief Business and Commercial Officer Sean Marett. It’s been an interesting year for the German biotech. In July the company raised one of the biggest ever European […]

December 18, 2019 - 6 minutesmins - By Helen Albert

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In Depth 15 Oct 2019

Four New Technologies That Will Change Cancer Treatment

New approaches to tame the immune system in the fight against cancer are getting us closer to a future where cancer becomes a curable disease. Personalized vaccines, cell therapy, gene editing and microbiome treatments are four technologies that will change the way cancer is treated. Curing cancer is certainly one of the big challenges of […]

October 15, 2019 - 9 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 10 Oct 2019

Update: BioNTech Files for €141M Nasdaq IPO

BioNTech’s Nasdaq IPO has raised €141M ($155M), a lower sum than it initially anticipated. The timing of the IPO means it has likely been impacted by adverse market conditions, which are due to factors such as global manufacturing slowdowns and escalations in US and Chinese trade disputes. This same market volatility led several companies such […]

October 10, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 9 Jul 2019

BioNTech Raises Whopping €290M to Fund Personalized mRNA Vaccines for Cancer

In one of the biggest ever funding rounds in European biotech, the German company BioNTech has raised a Series B of €289.5M ($325M) to develop individualized cancer vaccines. BioNTech will use the money to fuel the clinical development of the company’s lead program — an individualized mRNA-based immunotherapy for treating melanoma, which completed a phase […]

July 9, 2019 - 3 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

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Could mRNA Vaccines Fulfill Their Potential Against Coronavirus?

BioNTech Expands Cancer Portfolio With US Biotech Acquisition

BioNTech’s RNA-Boosted CAR T-Cell Therapy Shrinks Tumors in Mice

How BioNTech Navigates the Biotech Fundraising Maze

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Update: BioNTech Files for €141M Nasdaq IPO

BioNTech Raises Whopping €290M to Fund Personalized mRNA Vaccines for Cancer

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