Russia has developed its own mRNA vaccine against cancer, it will be distributed to patients free of charge.
According to TASS, Russia’s state-owned news agency, General Director of the Radiology Medical Research Center of the Russian Ministry of Health Andrey Kaprin has told Radio Rossiya.
The vaccine was developed in collaboration with several research centers. It is planned to launch it in general circulation in early 2025.
Earlier, Director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Alexander Gintsburg told TASS that the vaccine’s pre-clinical trials had shown that it suppresses tumor development and potential metastases.
Currently, it is not known which cancer will the vaccine treat, how it works or what is its name.
In February this year, President Vladimir Putin had said that Russian scientists were close to developing vaccines for cancer. He said in televised remarks that “we have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation”.
