Genentech Inc. and Germany’s BioNTech AG believe that together they can leverage the US-based Roche division’s portfolio of approved and investigational cancer immunotherapies and the privately-held biotech’s proprietary mRNA cancer vaccine technology platform to develop bespoke cancer vaccines for individual patients.
Genentech, BioNTech Pact Aims To Make Targeted Cancer Vaccines
Genentech will tap expertise of privately-held BioNTech in a collaboration aimed at developing individually tailored vaccines for use against a broad range of cancers, which the duo says offers “a new treatment paradigm” for oncology.
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