By 2030, Moderna hopes to deliver a set of new life-saving vaccines against cancer, heart disease and previously incurable diseases, a company spokesperson told CNBC on the 10th (local time).
A spokesperson confirmed to The Guardian on Saturday by quoting Moderna’s chief medical officer, Dr. Paul Burton, in comments.
Burton noted that advances in messenger RNA technology following the pandemic ushered in a golden age for new vaccines.
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine began distributing free, over-the-counter and rapid COVID-19 test kits to people receiving the vaccine or booster on January 7, 2022 at Union Station, Los Angeles, California.
“What we’ve learned in recent months is that if you thought mRNA was just for epidemics or corona, the evidence now is that it absolutely isn’t,” Burton told The Guardian. “It can be applied to all kinds of disease domains.
We are in cancer, infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease, and rare disease.”
In this regard, he added that Moderna could provide jobs as early as five years.
He noted that since the start of the pandemic, advances in messenger RNA, or mRNA, technology have ushered in a golden age for new vaccine injections.
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