Neoantigen Cancer Vaccine Helps BioNTech Advance Oncology Ambitions

Encouraging 50% Response Rate

After many years of failures and setbacks, neoantigen-targeting immunotherapies are gaining momentum, with BioNTech and Roche among the frontrunners.

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mRNA-based BNT122 is just one of BioNTech's novel immunotherapy modalities. • Source: BioNTech

BioNTech has presented promising early results from the neoantigen targeting cancer immunotherapy it is developing with Roche, as it seeks to advance its multi-pronged oncology ambitions.

Autogene cevumeran (also known as BNT122) uses BioNTech’s mRNA platform to deliver a cancer antigenthat that is individually tailored to...

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