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by Cu3PO42 1980 days ago
They were working on applying mRNA technology to other diseases, including (and in particular) cancer, well before the pandemic. While it is true that they have received significant funding this year, they had a $7.6B market cap on Dec 31, 2019 and were already conducting several clinical studies for mRNA-based medicine [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200128054759/https://biontech....

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Smaller companies here in the bay area as well, see: Rejuvenation Tech.
Moderna is too.