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    BNT162b2 vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies and poly-specific T cells in humans

    BNT162b2, a nucleoside-modified mRNA formulated in lipid nanoparticles that encodes the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (S) stabilized in its prefusion conformation, has demonstrated 95% efficacy in preventing C...

    Ugur Sahin, Alexander Muik, Isabel Vogler, Evelyna Derhovanessian, Lena M. Kranz in Nature (2021)

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    mRNA therapeutics in cancer immunotherapy

    Synthetic mRNA provides a template for the synthesis of any given protein, protein fragment or peptide and lends itself to a broad range of pharmaceutical applications, including different modalities of cancer...

    Jan D. Beck, Daniel Reidenbach, Nadja Salomon, Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci in Molecular Cancer (2021)

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    BNT162b vaccines protect rhesus macaques from SARS-CoV-2

    A safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 is urgently needed in quantities that are sufficient to immunize large populations. Here we report the preclinical development of two vaccine candidates (BNT162b1 ...

    Annette B. Vogel, Isis Kanevsky, Ye Che, Kena A. Swanson, Alexander Muik in Nature (2021)

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    Publisher Correction: COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b1 elicits human antibody and TH1 T cell responses

    A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03102-w

    Ugur Sahin, Alexander Muik, Evelyna Derhovanessian, Isabel Vogler, Lena M. Kranz in Nature (2021)

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    COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b1 elicits human antibody and TH1 T cell responses

    An effective vaccine is needed to halt the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. Recently, we reported safety, tolerability and antibody response data from an ong...

    Ugur Sahin, Alexander Muik, Evelyna Derhovanessian, Isabel Vogler, Lena M. Kranz in Nature (2020)

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    An RNA vaccine drives immunity in checkpoint-inhibitor-treated melanoma

    Treating patients who have cancer with vaccines that stimulate a targeted immune response is conceptually appealing, but cancer vaccine trials have not been successful in late-stage patients with treatment-ref...

    Ugur Sahin, Petra Oehm, Evelyna Derhovanessian, Robert A. Jabulowsky in Nature (2020)

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    mRNA Cancer Vaccines—Messages that Prevail

    During the last decade, mRNA became increasingly recognized as a versatile tool for the development of new innovative therapeutics. Especially for vaccine development, mRNA is of outstanding interest and numer...

    Christian Grunwitz, Lena M. Kranz in Cancer Vaccines (2017)

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    Systemic RNA delivery to dendritic cells exploits antiviral defence for cancer immunotherapy

    The development of a nanoparticle RNA vaccine is reported that preferentially targets dendritic cells after systemic administration, and is shown to provide durable interferon-α-dependent antigen-specific immu...

    Lena M. Kranz, Mustafa Diken, Heinrich Haas, Sebastian Kreiter, Carmen Loquai in Nature (2016)