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THE MESSENGER: A STORY OF MRNA

By Ev DURÁN, Tareq DAOUD

Documentary - Production 2023

A few top world scientists uncover a tangled history of discoveries of mRNA technology used for Covid-19 vaccines. Unaware of the upcoming pandemic 2020, these researchers were initially looking for the best gene therapy methods to fight cancer, HIV and other deadly diseases.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND, FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 52 mn
- Director(s)
- Ev DURÁN, Tareq DAOUD
- Writer(s)
- Yelena GANSHOF VAN DER MEERSCH, Ev DURÁN, Tareq DAOUD
- Cast
- Katalin KARIKÓ, Ugur SAHIN, Ozlem TURECI, Pieter CULLIS, Fyodor URNOV, Elie DOLGIN, Robert LANGER, Hans-Georg RAMMENSEE, Robert MALONE
- ISAN
- 0000-0005-FDA5-0000-Z-0000-0000-6
- Producer(s)
- Yelena GANSHOF VAN DER MEERSCH (INSIDE TOMORROW)
- Synopsis
- In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, a major development in the history of medicine has been taking place right before our eyes: the emergence of the first messenger RNA therapies. For the general population though, many questions remain unanswered: What is mRNA therapy, and how does it work? Is it safe? How could vaccines based on this seemingly new technology appear so quickly? Pioneers and experts share with us the unknown story behind a cure that has, in fact, taken decades to develop, revealing an epic, scientific journey of discovery. We see that the road to scientific discovery is neither smooth nor straight, and is always paved with human drama. Above all, we learn why mRNA therapy, far from being limited to infectious diseases, opens a seemingly limitless potential for many other revolutionary cures.
  
  CASTING: KATALIN KARIKÓ, University of Pennsylvania (USA) • PIETER CULLIS, University of British Columbia (Canada) • UGUR SAHIN, co-founder of BioNTech (Germany) • ÖZLEM TÜRECI, co-founder of BioNTech (Germany) • STEVE PASCOLO, University Hospital of Zürich (Switzerland) • ROBERT MALONE (USA) • HANS-GEORG RAMMENSEE, University of Tübingen (Germany) • ROBERT LANGER, MIT, co-founder of Moderna (USA) • FYODOR URNOV, Innovative Genomics Institute (USA) • ELIE DOLGIN, science journalist and writer (USA)