BioNTech nabs up to $90M for mpox vaccine as it begins PhI/II trial behind Moderna’s lead

Build­ing on its in­fec­tious dis­ease work in Covid-19, malar­ia and tu­ber­cu­lo­sis, BioN­Tech is now rolling out a Phase I/II test of a jab to pro­tect against the mpox virus, which caused in­ter­na­tion­al con­cern in the sum­mer of 2022 but has since waned.

Like its Covid-19 vac­cine coun­ter­part Mod­er­na, the Ger­man biotech is hop­ing to cre­ate an mR­NA-based vac­cine for mpox, which can lead to ir­ri­ta­ble skin le­sions, rash­es and painful swelling of the lymph nodes.

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