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BioNTech breaks into ADCs, gains HER2-targeting product in deal with DualityBio

Cash-rich German biotech enters agreement with ambitious China-based company around potential competitors to Enhertu, Daiichi products

April 3, 2023 6:54 PM UTC

For its entry into the ADC arena, BioNTech has obtained most global rights to a clinical, HER2-targeting product and a second program from Shanghai-based DualityBio for $170 million up front.

The initial payment builds on the $120 million in venture funding Duality Biologics Ltd. has announced since its 2020 establishment, giving the biotech additional runway for its ambitions around a pipeline that includes at least seven programs it has named thus far...