The husband and wife duo who helped create the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine proclaimed that messenger RNA (mRNA) cancer vaccines are being worked on and aren’t far off.
“We feel that a cure for cancer or to changing cancer patients’ lives is in our grasp,” professor Ozlem Tureci told BBC News. Tureci co-founded BioNTech with her husband, Ugur Sahin, who himself told the outlet that cancer vaccines should be widely available “before 2030.”
“What we have developed over decades for cancer vaccine development has been the tailwind for developing the COVID-19 vaccine, and now the COVID-19 vaccine and our experience in developing it gives back to our cancer work,” Tureci told the broadcaster, saying that “mRNA acts as a blueprint and allows you to tell the body to produce the drug or the vaccine.”…