FDA places clinical hold on BioNTech malaria trial

6 March 2025

German biotech major BioNTech (Nasdaq: BNTX) has suffered a blow as it seeks to add new revenue streams beyond its COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty.

The Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)-partnered mRNA jab proved a multi-billion dollar money-spinner and helped to end the pandemic in the early 2020s, but sales have inevitably subsided, leaving BioNTech with a struggle on its hands to find new products to return to growth.

Prop Ugur Sahin, co-founder and chief executive of BioNTech, has spoken of plans to develop BioNTech into a global immunotherapy powerhouse with the potential to improve the standard of care with innovative oncology products and prophylactic vaccines against infectious diseases.

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