CVAC - CureVac N.V.

Company Profile

CureVac N.V., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing various transformative medicines based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA). Its lead proprietary programs include CV8102 that is in a Phase 1 dose escalating clinical trials for four types of cancers as a monotherapy and in combination with anti-PD-1; and CV7202, which is in a Phase 1 clinical trials as a vaccine candidate against rabies. It is also advancing mRNA vaccine program against coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which is in Phase 1 clinical trial. The company's partnered programs comprise BI1361849, a therapeutic vaccine candidate that is in a Phase 1/2 clinical trials to elicit antigen-specific immune responses against tumor-associated antigens frequently overexpressed in patients with non-small cell lung cancer; Cas9 mRNA constructs for use in gene editing therapeutics; mRNA based novel therapeutic antibodies; prophylactic vaccines to prevent picornaviruses, influenza, malaria, and rotavirus; and programs against SARS-CoV-2, Lassa virus, and yellow fever. It has strategic partnerships with Genmab, Arcturus, Acuitas, CRISPR Therapeutics, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CEPI, Tesla Grohmann, and others. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Tübingen, Germany.