COVID Vaccine Developer: Cancer Shots Are Next
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Image: Mat Napo via Unsplash / Futurism. Article by Dan Robitzski. Futurism – March 19, 2021.
Özlem Türeci, the scientist who cofounded the company BioNTech — of “Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine” fame — says that we might have working vaccines for cancer within the next few years.
Developing a vaccine that prevents cancer was actually Türeci’s original goal for BioNTech, she told the Associated Press. But now, after the company’s resounding success and the influx of funding stemming from its COVID vaccine, she says it’s finally a feasible project to pursue and bring to fruition.
Like the coronavirus vaccine, BioNTech is working on cancer vaccines that use messenger RNA to instruct a person’s immune system how to spot, target, and kill cancerous tumors when they start to grow, according to the AP. […]
