The Covid-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer was the fastest ever to win approval “against a novel pathogen in medical history”, as BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin points out in his DLD All Stars presentation.
He explains how his company managed to take its groundbreaking mRNA research and apply it to fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Sahin also illustrates why the same approach offers hope to cure cancer much more effectively than most current treatments.
