The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe, and the technology behind it will soon be used to fight another global scourge — cancer.
Ozlem Tureci, who co-founded the German company BioNTech with her husband, was working on a way to harness the body's immune system to tackle tumors when they learned last year of an unknown virus infecting people in China.
Over breakfast, the couple decided to apply the technology they'd been researching for two decades to the new threat, dubbing the effort “Project Lightspeed.”
Within 11 months, Britain had authorized the use of the mRNA vaccine BioNTech developed with U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, followed a week later by the United States. Tens of millions of people worldwide have received the shot since December.
I read about this couple and Biontech and their development of the coronavirus vaccine a few months ago in Time magazine. Hopefully they’ll be as successful with their cancer treatment.
Gordon Hamilton Fairley was another who was looking into the immune system treating cancer. He was well known worldwide but unfortunately killed by an I RA bomb I think mid 70s.Very interesting man sadly taken in the prime of his life with so much left to offer.
Brilliant! As immigrants from Turkey, backed by private German money, this couple of genius s have shown just what can be accomplished. The EU should be awarding them highest honours.
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