MBI researcher honored internationally for mRNA cancer vaccine work
Dr. Elias Sayour was one of three scientists worldwide honored at the 2026 BioInnovation Institute & Science Prize for Innovation ceremony.
Dr. Elias Sayour was one of three scientists worldwide honored at the 2026 BioInnovation Institute & Science Prize for Innovation ceremony.
Dr. Elias Sayour’s patients inspire his pioneering mRNA cancer vaccine research.
Sayour’s study, published in Nature, found that COVID mRNA vaccines spark an immune response to fight cancer.
See highlights stemming from paper published in the journal Nature on Oct. 22.
In The Conversation, Christiano Marconi discusses a new study in Nature finding that the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sparks an immune response to fight cancer.
Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine, MBI researchers have found.