The world could be only a few years away from a cancer vaccine, according to the couple behind the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine.
"We feel that a cure for cancer or to changing cancer patients' lives is in our grasp," professor Ozlem Tureci toldin an interview over the weekend. Her husband, professor Ugur Sahin, with whom she cofounded the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, said he thought cancer vaccines could be widely available "before 2030."
Corporate flags wave outside the BioNTeCH research institute in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, on Oct. 5, 2022."From the very beginning, our focus has always been on exploiting the full potential of the body's immune system to successfully help address cancer and infectious diseases," the company's website says.
"The development of several COVID vaccines in record time showed the possibilities of mRNA vaccine technology, which could one day become an effective treatment to help beat cancer," Dr. Sam Godfrey, research information lead at Cancer Research U.K., said.
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