The partners will develop a test to identify women most likely to benefit from VGX-3100, Inovio's immunotherapy to treat HPV-associated advanced cervical dysplasia.
The company offers a blood test that detects human papillomavirus-related cancer by measuring tumor tissue-modified viral DNA using droplet digital PCR.
The test will identify patients with squamous cell head and neck cancer caused by specific HPV infections for treatment with BioNTech's investigational BNT113.
The firm's platform, dubbed HNKlear, uses methylation-specific PCR to detect microRNA biomarkers in a patient's blood sample following frontline cancer treatment.
The researchers found that changes in histone modification at HPV integration events were correlated with upregulation of nearby genes and endogenous retroviruses.