Moderna's chief medical officer said advancements in mRNA technology since the outset of the Covid pandemic have ushered in a golden age for new vaccines.
on Saturday. Burton said he's confident those jabs will be ready by the end of the decade, adding that Moderna could possibly offer them in as little as five years.
"I think what we have learned in recent months is that if you ever thought that mRNA was just for infectious diseases, or just for Covid, the evidence now is that that's absolutely not the case," Burton told the Guardian. "It can be applied to all sorts of disease areas; we are in cancer, infectious disease, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune diseases, rare disease."Burton's remarks come as Moderna navigates its post-pandemic boom driven by its mRNA Covid vaccine.
Burton also underscored messenger RNA's ability to tackle rare diseases with no treatments available yet. Those mRNA therapies could be available a decade from now, he said.
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