Cancer vaccine research has suffered clinical-stage setbacks over the years, but there have been suggestions that combining them with checkpoint inhibitors and other new anticancers has promise. That's cause enough for Germany's mRNA-focused biotech CureVac AG to attract its second big pharma collaborator, Eli Lilly & Co., for its immunotherapy research.
Other potential reasons include the backing of SAP software company founder Dietmar Hopp and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...








