BioNTech Shares Surge on Groundbreaking Cancer Therapy Success

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BioNTech SE has achieved a significant milestone in its oncology pipeline, sending its stock price sharply higher. The Mainz-based biotechnology company announced that its experimental cancer treatment successfully met the primary endpoint in a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial, marking the company’s first late-stage success beyond its COVID-19 vaccine achievements.

The breakthrough centers on trastuzumab pamirtecan (BNT323/DB-1303), an antibody-drug conjugate developed in collaboration with partner Duality Biologics. The drug candidate demonstrated statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival for patients with HER2-positive, inoperable or metastatic breast cancer during an interim analysis.