BioNTech

It is hoped that a new partnership between the UK government and BioNTech will help accelerate clinical trials of personalised immunotherapies for cancer and infectious disease vaccines.  The agreement means cancer patients will get early access to trials exploring personalised mRNA therapies, like cancer vaccines.  Professor Uğur Şahin, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of BioNTech, […]

Biotechnology company Moderna has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Pfizer and BioNTech in relation to the use of its messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 Comirnaty vaccine. The lawsuits, which were made in the United States and Germany, state that Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine Comirnaty infringes Moderna’s patents for its […]

Pharmaceutical company BioNTech will deliver the 2022 César Milstein Lecture on 26 July with a focus on how messenger RNA (mRNA) technology can be used within vaccines for cancer and Covid-19.   The lecture will be delivered in two halves by Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, co-founders of BioNtech.   The first half of the lecture, titled […]

Two doses of Covid-19 vaccines were sufficient in providing protection against severe cases of the infectious disease, according to new research.  A study1 led by researchers at the University of Bristol found that two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines provided protection against Covid-19 infections six months after the second dose.   The study investigated how […]

Biopharmaceutical company CureVac has filed a lawsuit against BioNTech SE and two of its subsidiaries in relation to an alleged infringement of the company’s portfolio used in the manufacture and sale of the Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccine.  CureVac has filed the lawsuit in the German Regional Court in Düsseldorf in a move it describes as asserting […]