The man who invented the first vaccine against the deadly coronavirus is prioritizing a cure for cancer as his post-pandemic target.
Ugur Sahin, the co-founder and chief executive of BioNTech, the firm which developed the earliest authorized vaccine in partnership with Pfizer, told Arab News that successful cancer treatment, using similar techniques he developed in the fight against COVID-19, was his next goal.
Sahin, who developed the vaccine along with his wife Ozlem Tureci, who is BioNTech’s chief medical officer, was appearing in the latest episode of Frankly Speaking, the series of video interviews with leading global policy-makers and business people.
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Cure for cancer the next target for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine inventor Ugur Sahin