Top
image credit: Unsplash

BioNTech selects Rwanda, Senegal for potential malaria and tuberculosis mRNA vaccine manufacturing

August 27, 2021

Category:

BioNTech hopes it can follow up its global COVID-19 success with the world’s first mRNA vaccines against malaria and tuberculosis. While still under development, the German biotech is already eyeing two African countries to scale up production for the potential shots.

BioNTech, in its bid to become a “global immunotherapy powerhouse,” announced that it’s looking to build mRNA manufacturing sites in Rwanda and Senegal to support future production of the two vaccine hopefuls, the company said Friday.

Read More on FiercePharma