An Irish medical professor has said he is “very excited” over the news that cancer vaccines will be available by 2030.
The vaccine has been in development for over 20 years but has progressed rapidly thanks to technology used to implement Covid-19 vaccines. The husband and wife team behind the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, are now redirecting their focus on cancer research after two challenging years of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout.
Professor Seamus O’Reilly works on cancer trials at University Hospital Cork. He told Newstalk listeners that the vaccine will work by priming immune systems against cancer calls present in the body.
