Freshly Financed CureVac Seeks Partner To Keep Up In mRNA

German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, which secured $29.5m via a new financing round this week, talks to Scrip on the sidelines of the BIO-Europe partnering conference in Cologne about development plans for its mRNA cancer vaccine technology and its goals for 2017 – which include securing a new pharma partner.

CureVac AG, a company that has been active in the messenger RNA space for more than 16 years, is on the prowl for more pharma partners in order to advance its pipeline programs in prostate cancer and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to the next level and to widen its program into other indications.

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