Sanofi Hopes BioNTech Pact Can Help Reboot Cancer Prospects

Working hard to re-boot its cancer strategy, Sanofi SA of France has entered its latest multi-year collaboration in the field, this time with German biotech BioNTech AG to discover and develop up to five immunotherapies, each consisting of a mixture of synthetic messenger RNAs (mRNAs).

Working hard to re-boot its cancer strategy, Sanofi SA of France has entered its latest multi-year collaboration in the field, this time with German biotech BioNTech AG to discover and develop up to five immunotherapies, each consisting of a mixture of synthetic messenger RNAs (mRNAs).

After failing to transition its cancer portfolio from chemotherapy to targeted cancer drugs, Sanofi is relying on a recent collaboration, signed in late July, with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. to vault...

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