Major COVID-19 Vaccine Maker Says mRNA Cancer Vaccines to Be Available ‘Before 2030’

Scientists, CEO and founders of BioNTech, Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin listen to a laudatio during an internet broadcasted ceremony of the Axel Springer Awards, in Berlin, on March 18, 2021. Bernd von Jutrczenka / POOL / AFP via Getty Images

The husband and wife duo who helped create the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine proclaimed that messenger RNA (mRNA) cancer vaccines are being worked on and aren’t far off.

“We feel that a cure for cancer or to changing cancer patients’ lives is in our grasp,” professor Ozlem Tureci told BBC News. Tureci co-founded BioNTech with her husband, Ugur Sahin, who himself told the outlet that cancer vaccines should be widely available “before 2030.”