{"id":10757,"date":"2025-11-05T16:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10757"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:38:45","slug":"do-mrna-vaccines-hold-the-key-to-stopping-cancer-in-its-tracks-northeastern-university-vaccine-experts-talk-recent-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/05\/do-mrna-vaccines-hold-the-key-to-stopping-cancer-in-its-tracks-northeastern-university-vaccine-experts-talk-recent-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Do mRNA vaccines hold the key to stopping cancer in its tracks? Northeastern University vaccine experts talk recent developments."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.northeastern.edu\/2025\/11\/04\/research-mrna-covid-vaccine-cancer\/\">Northwestern University<\/a> There\u2019s a budding scientific literature supporting the idea that so-called messenger RNA vaccines, in prompting a robust immune response inside the body, can help cancer patients. The COVID-19 vaccines could be doing a lot more than just warding off viral infection: they may be teaching our immune systems how to fight cancer more effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a growing body of scientific literature supporting the idea that so-called messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, by prompting a robust immune response within the body, can help cancer patients. And Northeastern University vaccine experts say the pandemic-era tech holds real promise as a tool to combat one of the world\u2019s deadliest diseases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is ample evidence showing how mRNA technology can transform how we prevent and treat diseases, including these cross benefits that we\u2019re starting to see in cancer patients,\u201d says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bouve.northeastern.edu\/directory\/mansoor-amiji\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Mansoor Amiji, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mansoor Amiji<\/a>, university distinguished professor of pharmaceutical sciences and chemical engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwestern University There\u2019s a budding scientific literature supporting the idea that so-called messenger RNA vaccines, in prompting a robust immune response inside the body, can help cancer patients. The COVID-19 vaccines could be doing a lot more than just warding off viral infection: they may be teaching our immune systems how to fight cancer more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10758,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}