Will COVID-19 mRNA vaccines open doors for cancer vaccines?
Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, who co-founded BioNTech, the German firm that partnered with Pfizer to manufacture a revolutionary mRNA Covid vaccine, predicted cancer vaccines based on mRNA might be ready to use in patients “before 2030”. BioNTech was actually working on mRNA cancer vaccines before the pandemic struck but the firm pivoted to produce…...