The husband-and-wife team who co-founded BioNTech, the biotechnology company that partnered with Pfizer to develop an effective messenger-RNA (mRNA) shot against COVID-19, has predicted that a cancer vaccine could be widely available within the next...
"Yes, we feel that a cure for cancer, or to changing cancer patients' lives, is in our grasp," said Professor Ozlem Tureci during an interview on
"The goal that we have is that can we use the individualized vaccine approach to ensure that directly after surgery, patients receive a personalized, individualized vaccine, and we induce an immune response that so the T-cells in the body of the patient can screen the body for remaining tumor cells and ideally eliminate the tumor cells," Sahin explained.
That work was the"tailwind" for the COVID-19 shot development, which, in turn, now"gives back" to their cancer research, said Tureci."I don't think so," replied Tureci."Everything we have learned about the immune system and about what we achieve with a cancer vaccine shows, in principle, the clear activity – we can induce those killer T-cells, we can direct them.
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