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Pharmaceuticals

BioNTech shores up vaccine supply chain

by Michael McCoy
September 19, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 36

 

BioNTech is taking steps to manufacture BNT162b2, the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Pfizer. The German firm has signed a deal to acquire Novartis’s biologic drug production facility in Marburg, Germany, giving it capacity to make up to 750 million vaccine doses a year. It also struck an agreement for the contract manufacturer Siegfried to fill and package the vaccine at its site in Hameln, Germany. BioNTech is getting about $440 million from the German government to expand manufacturing in Germany.

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