CureVac Enlists Bayer To Secure Place Among COVID-19 Vaccines ‘Second Wave’

Company Faces Competition From J&J, Novavax

While demand for COVID-19 vaccines will be huge for the next two years, only those players with major manufacturing and commercial infrastructures in place will play a big role.

Bayer, Wuppertal
German neighbors Bayer will provide big pharma resources to support CureVac's push to bring its COVID-19 vaccine to market in 2021. • Source: Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images

For smaller companies aiming to take part in the ‘second wave’, time is running out to establish themselves as credible – and profitable – suppliers of COVID-19 vaccines.

One such company, CureVac, and has now enlisted German compatriots Bayer to help provide the scale and breadth...

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