BioNTech sees UK trials on most cancers vaccines beginning this yr, paper says

BERLIN, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Medical trials for BioNTech’s (22UAy.DE) most cancers vaccines ought to begin this yr in Britain, marking an necessary step in direction of their attainable sale on the open market, the German firm’s high government Ugur Sahin advised journal Der Spiegel.

BioNTech, recognized for its COVID vaccine with U.S. accomplice Pfizer (PFE.N), is at the moment deciding which kinds of most cancers it desires to check its personalised most cancers immunotherapies on and the areas the place it is going to conduct the trials, Sahin mentioned.

The corporate desires these therapies, that are primarily based on messenger RNA (mRNA) know-how just like the one which underpins its COVID-19 vaccine, to quickly turn into a daily remedy for most cancers sufferers.

“We consider that this needs to be attainable for big quantities of sufferers earlier than 2030,” Sahin mentioned.

The know-how for the sort of remedy has come a great distance, he mentioned.

“In 2014 we would have liked 3-6 months to create an individualized most cancers vaccine, now we’d like 4-6 weeks. Our purpose is to get it considerably below 4 weeks.”

Reporting by Klaus Lauer, Writing by Sarah Marsh; Enhancing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise

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