Invest in cancer treatment to control all infectious diseases

is 'hitting a big gamble' when making sure that if cancer treatments are properly produced, the world will no longer have to worry about deadly infectious diseases.

That was the content of his statement, as co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, at the JP Morgan Health Care Conference.

"This will be a great victory for humankind - and potentially an important and potential market for life sciences," Gates said - referring to the prospect of immunotherapy available. wide effect.

Since leaving the position of CEO of Microsoft in 2006, he and his wife Melinda have devoted most of their life to implementing measures to reduce poverty in many regions of the world. . Infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV and tuberculosis are the top 'enemies' that the couple cares about.

Bill Gates.(Photo: Getty Images).

The Gates Foundation spent billions of dollars to subsidize money for this purpose. The couple billionaires have also donated a lot of money to companies researching and producing healing therapies. In a recent keynote address, Mr. Gates mentioned that some companies deserve to be pioneers in controlling infectious diseases.

One of Melinda and her husband's small investments and Mr. Gates is Immunocore - a company that develops technologies to stimulate the patient's immune system. This technology reprograms the body's immune cells (called T cells), and uses them to fight cancer in a way that is compatible with each patient.

"Initially, Immunocore's T-cell receptor technology aims to destroy all types of cancer, but it can also be used to treat infectious diseases , " Gates said. Gates Foundation is also interested in gene therapies that use a component of the human body called messenger RNA or mRNA. When these molecules are modified and injected back into the human body, they can produce an extremely strong immune response. In his speech, Gates also pointed out that in the future such vaccines will be cheaper, easier to access and more effective than traditional vaccines.

"The approach we are taking is particularly useful in controlling disease, whether they occur naturally or as a result of a deliberate biological attack," Gates said .

Invest in cancer treatments that can control infectious diseases.(Photo: Internet).

The Gates Foundation is also actively investing in CureVac and Moderna to speed up the improvement of the vaccine manufacturing process. Both companies are developing mRNA approaches to help the body use its own proteins to fight disease. Currently, it takes about 10 years to develop and approve vaccines, while a pathogenic bacterium takes only 90 days to develop.

Although Gates acknowledges, other factors are equally as dangerous as infectious diseases and are affecting people in developing countries such as malnutrition or poor sanitation. However, when it comes to bringing out the best for the largest number of people, he still decides to invest money to solve infectious diseases.