抵御新冠病毒入侵,有效預防季節性流感。
這是Moderna公司的首席執行官斯特凡內·班塞爾為公司設立的目標。該公司是成功研發出有效新冠疫苗的開拓者之一。4月27日,他在《財富》2021虛擬頭腦風暴健康大會的一次討論中提到了這個目標。
班塞爾表示,公司希望利用其信使核糖核酸(mRNA)技術研發一款能夠同時滅殺幾種致病菌的疫苗,因為mRNA技術對抗變異毒株的效力更強。
他在接受《財富》雜志的主編黎克騰采訪時稱:“我們的目標是研發出一款高效流感疫苗,然后將其與新冠變異毒株相融合。所以在同一針劑中接種了這款高效流感疫苗,就可以對抗某一特定年份出現的相應變種病毒,人們能夠在CVS藥店或者全科醫生那里接種一劑疫苗,到那時就完全不用再擔心感染流感或新冠病毒。”
基于mRNA的治療方法從更廣闊的角度考慮疫苗的生物過程。這類技術僅依靠對人體細胞進行編碼來發揮完全合成藥物通常具有的作用,而不是在培養皿中制造大量抗原。在頭腦風暴健康大會上,班塞爾將其比作對身體進行編程。一個程序就有無限潛能。
他說:“mRNA就是一個軟件。所以我們清楚該如何通過技術讓幾種mRNA對抗不同類型的流感病毒,并將可以對抗不同新冠變異毒株的幾種mRNA融進一劑疫苗中。所以你只需接種一次,就能夠獲得免疫保護。”
Moderna公司還有更遠大的愿景。就在一年前,生物技術領域的許多投資者還對利用mRNA技術進行治療或研發疫苗的想法不屑一顧。當時人們認為,這一新興領域簡直是不自量力。但現在已經今時不同往日了。
該公司正在致力于研發從預防寨卡病毒(Zika)的傳染病藥物到癌癥疫苗等各種產品。正如班塞爾所言,mRNA平臺的延展性使其更易對抗新出現的新冠病毒變異株和病原體等。(財富中文網)
翻譯:郝秀
審校:汪皓
抵御新冠病毒入侵,有效預防季節性流感。
這是Moderna公司的首席執行官斯特凡內·班塞爾為公司設立的目標。該公司是成功研發出有效新冠疫苗的開拓者之一。4月27日,他在《財富》2021虛擬頭腦風暴健康大會的一次討論中提到了這個目標。
班塞爾表示,公司希望利用其信使核糖核酸(mRNA)技術研發一款能夠同時滅殺幾種致病菌的疫苗,因為mRNA技術對抗變異毒株的效力更強。
他在接受《財富》雜志的主編黎克騰采訪時稱:“我們的目標是研發出一款高效流感疫苗,然后將其與新冠變異毒株相融合。所以在同一針劑中接種了這款高效流感疫苗,就可以對抗某一特定年份出現的相應變種病毒,人們能夠在CVS藥店或者全科醫生那里接種一劑疫苗,到那時就完全不用再擔心感染流感或新冠病毒。”
基于mRNA的治療方法從更廣闊的角度考慮疫苗的生物過程。這類技術僅依靠對人體細胞進行編碼來發揮完全合成藥物通常具有的作用,而不是在培養皿中制造大量抗原。在頭腦風暴健康大會上,班塞爾將其比作對身體進行編程。一個程序就有無限潛能。
他說:“mRNA就是一個軟件。所以我們清楚該如何通過技術讓幾種mRNA對抗不同類型的流感病毒,并將可以對抗不同新冠變異毒株的幾種mRNA融進一劑疫苗中。所以你只需接種一次,就能夠獲得免疫保護。”
Moderna公司還有更遠大的愿景。就在一年前,生物技術領域的許多投資者還對利用mRNA技術進行治療或研發疫苗的想法不屑一顧。當時人們認為,這一新興領域簡直是不自量力。但現在已經今時不同往日了。
該公司正在致力于研發從預防寨卡病毒(Zika)的傳染病藥物到癌癥疫苗等各種產品。正如班塞爾所言,mRNA平臺的延展性使其更易對抗新出現的新冠病毒變異株和病原體等。(財富中文網)
翻譯:郝秀
審校:汪皓
Come for the COVID immunization. Stay for protection against the seasonal flu.
That's the goal that Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel has set out for his company, one of the pioneering developers of effective COVID vaccines, which he shared during a discussion at Fortune's 2021 virtual Brainstorm Health conference on April 27.
Bancel said the company hopes to use its messenger RNA (mRNA)-based technology, which can be more adaptable to changing viral strains, to knock out several pathogenic birds with one stone.
"Our vision is to develop a high efficacy flu vaccine, and then merge it with COVID variables," he said during an interview with Fortune editor-in-chief Clifton Leaf. "So in the same single shot, you get a high efficacy flu vaccine, the appropriate virus variant for that given year, and you walk into your your CVS or go to your [general practitioner], you get one dose and you're all set for flu and for COVID."
mRNA-based therapeutics take the biological process back by one step. Rather than manufacture massive amounts of antigens in petri dishes, these sorts of technologies simply rely on coding your actual cells to perform the functions that a fully-constructed drug usually would. At Brainstorm Health, Bancel likened it to programming your body. And a program has boundless potential.
"mRNA is a piece of software," he said. "So we know how to technically put several mRNA to deal with several strains of flu and several mRNA dealing with several strains of COVID variants into a single dose. So you just need one shot, and you'll be protected."
Moderna has far wider ambitions. Just one year ago, many in the biotechnology investor class scoffed at the thought of an mRNA-based therapeutic or vaccine. The eyes of that nascent industry were too big for its stomach, the thinking went. How times have changed.
The firm is working on products ranging from infectious disease drugs to protect against Zika to cancer vaccines. And the malleability of the mRNA platform, as Bancel said, could make it far easier to deal with emerging variant strains of the coronavirus and pathogens beyond.