There will be a cancer cure in the form of a vaccine before the end of the decade, according to a married couple who helped develop Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine.
Professors Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin, the husband-and- wife duo behind the BioNTech pharmaceutical startup that provided the mRNA juice for Pfizer's coronaviruses vaccines, told the BBC that their company is currently developing a cancer vaccine that they believe will be a
Tureci said that a cure for cancer is in their grasp.
The couple is very confident in their approach, with the husband saying that cancer vaccines will happen before the year 2030.
According to Tureci, it was research for patient-specific cancer vaccines that led them to the spikeprotein discoveries that acted as a "tailwind" for current COVID vaccines.
Tureci argued that the research from coronaviruses gives back to their cancer treatment research.
She told the reporter that the vaccines would target cancer cells as if they were on a wanted poster. It will be possible to distinguish cancer cells from normal ones with the help of the mRNA.
The wife said there was still a chance that the vaccines wouldn't work.
Tureci did not think so. We can induce those killer T-cells, we can direct them, and that's what we've learned about the immune system.
"As scientists, we are hesitant to say we will have a cure for cancer, but we have a number of breakthrough ideas in the works that we are going to continue pursuing," she said.
There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic about this news, even though it is ambitious.
The first woman is said to have been cured of HIV.
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