BioNTech Pact and Stock Sale Infuse Autolus With $600M for Its Cell Therapies

Autolus will apply the capital to its CAR T-cell therapy currently under FDA review in cancer and in early clinical development in lupus. Meanwhile, BioNTech will gain access to Autolus’s cell therapy manufacturing assets as well as technologies that could support the R&D of in vivo therapies and antibody drug conjugates.