Moderna’s race to the vaccine
The Story of Money
Manuela Saragosa
4.4 • 400 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The Boston-based biotech eschewed a traditional approach to vaccine development, instead pitching its use of mRNA technology to investors. That pitch paid off this year as the company stands to be one of the first to bring a Covid-19 vaccine to market. Hannah Kuchler, the FT’s US pharma and biotech correspondent, reports on Moderna’s race to find an immunisation for the novel coronavirus.
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| 0:30.3 | Before the pandemic, a little known biotech in Boston was trying to invent a new generation of medicines. |
| 0:36.0 | So I've been getting to know Moderna ever since I took over this beat in 2019. |
| 0:41.0 | I thought they were very interesting,ually, they were interesting financially, |
| 0:45.3 | but I never kind of found the way to write about them. They weren't front page news, right? |
| 0:49.1 | Until this year. I was talking to the CEO back in January at the J.P. Morgan conference, which is the big health care and biotech and farmer conference of the year in San Francisco. |
| 1:00.0 | And it was just as the coronavirus was kind of coming on the horizon. |
| 1:04.3 | Think back to January. |
| 1:05.6 | Coronavirus was quickly spreading in Wuhan, |
| 1:08.2 | but those of us in Europe and in the US |
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