5 Topic Commentaries

HTC-19 Profile: What’s Cooking in the mRNA Lab?

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  Andrew Pekosz, PhD

  Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

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  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  If you had told me before that there would be 95% effectiveness for these vaccines, I'd have said you were dreaming,

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  Jeff Coller, PhD

  RNA biology and therapeutics

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  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  There's a big responsibility of scientists and our public health officials and our politicians to educate the public about technologies that are showing such amazing promise such as the mRNA platform.

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  Melanie Swift, MD

  Vaccination programs and public health

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  Mayo Clinic

  We've got two really effective vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. These vaccines are about 95% effective at preventing COVID-19 disease.

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  Tal Zaks, MD

  mRNA therapeutics and vaccines

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  Moderna

  We’re using mRNA, which we think of as the software of life. It encodes the critical instructions from DNA that direct cells in the body to make proteins to prevent or fight disease.

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  Daniel G. Anderson, PhD

  Drug delivery and nucleic acid therapeutics

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  It’s a tremendously exciting demonstration of how mRNA nanoparticles may lead to genomic correction for disease,

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