BioNTech co-founders Özlem Türeci (L) and Uğur Şahin (Horst Galuschka/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

BioN­Tech and Re­gen­eron ex­pand their can­cer part­ner­ship, push­ing new Lib­tayo com­bo in­to NSCLC

Af­ter go­ing back to the ne­go­ti­at­ing ta­ble, BioN­Tech and Re­gen­eron have come away with an ex­pand­ed col­lab­o­ra­tion push­ing their ef­forts in­to lung can­cer.

The two built up­on a pre­vi­ous deal in which re­searchers eval­u­at­ed the PD-1 an­ti­body Lib­tayo in com­bi­na­tion with an ex­per­i­men­tal mR­NA can­cer vac­cine. Where­as the ear­li­er deal cen­tered around a melanoma pro­gram, Tues­day’s part­ner­ship will fo­cus on a can­di­date for NSCLC. No fi­nan­cials were dis­closed, but the two not­ed they will share de­vel­op­ment costs 50-50.

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