In a recent interview with Sky News, the CEO, Stephane Bancel, disclosed that Moderna is planning a new mRNA vaccine to repair heart muscles after a heart attack.
Moderna's CEO disclosed that his company has a programme that involves administering messenger RNA (mRNA) to patients' hearts after a heart attack.
In a recent interview with Sky News, the CEO, Stephane Bancel, said, "We are now in a super exciting programme where we inject mRNA in people’s hearts after a heart attack to grow back new blood vessels and re-vascularize the heart."
Bancel gave no further details about the program's design. One of the most widely used mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 was created by his company, along with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
Bancel concurred when the reporter suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic had a "irony" in that it had enabled companies like Moderna to "develop these other areas because of the revenues that came through the door." “You’re 100 percent right,” he said.
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