{"id":148381,"date":"2022-10-18T01:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T06:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/biontech-founders-predict-cancer-vaccine-is-only-years-away"},"modified":"2022-10-18T01:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T06:23:03","slug":"biontech-founders-predict-cancer-vaccine-is-only-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/biontech-founders-predict-cancer-vaccine-is-only-years-away","title":{"rendered":"BioNTech Founders Predict Cancer Vaccine Is Only Years Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biontech-founders-predict-cancer-vaccine-is-only-years-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/coronavirus\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">COVID-19<\/a>, has predicted that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a> vaccine could be widely available within the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we feel that a cure for cancer, or to changing cancer patients\u2019 lives, is in our grasp,\u201d said Professor Ozlem Tureci during an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m001d7z4\/sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-16102022\">BBC\u2019s \u2018Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cancer vaccine, which would build upon breakthroughs achieved by the scientists during the development of the COVID-19 shot, may be widely available within just eight years, said Professor Ugur Sahin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 decade. \u201cYes, we feel that a cure for cancer, or to changing cancer patients\u2019 lives, is in our grasp,\u201d said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}