A chance meeting of U. Penn scientists at a copy machine, Moderna's internal debate about whether to go forward with a COVID vaccine - PhillyInquirer's TomAvril1 interviews Peter Loftus, author of The Messenger, about the behind-the-scenes story.
Wall Street Journal reporter Peter Loftus has written The Messenger, a book about Moderna and its messenger RNA vaccine for COVID-19.The technology underlying the first two COVID vaccines — genetic instructions in the form of messenger RNA — is now taken for granted, with billions of people having received the shots.
Now that the vaccines have been such a success, how might mRNA might be useful in making other drugs? Moderna benefited from a lot of involvement with the federal government. They were already working with the National Institutes of Health These things that end up being breakthroughs, whether it’s a vaccine or a medicine, which might seem to suddenly appear on peoples’ radar, might have this long backstory that really took a while to advance from basic lab work in some academic scientists’ lab all the way through to getting to a drug company. Sometimes it takes a person who comes into a field of research and sees it in a different way.
Really almost from the get-go, there was criticism about the financial enrichment of Moderna as a company and its executives. And they did get this funding from the government, in the form of outright research and development support of well over $1 billion, and the supply contracts are worth
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