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26 Feb 2020

Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus

Moderna Therapeutics delivers samples to NIH to begin tests
Re: Stefan Bancel (MBA 2000)
Topics: Science-BiomedicineHealth-Medical SpecialtiesResearch-Research and Development
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As reported in the Boston Globe, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) and his firm Moderna Therapeutics are working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a vaccine for coronavirus. Vials of its vaccine, the company told the Globe, have been sent to the NIH for testing. An article in the Wall Street Journal notes that the NIH expects clinical trials to begin in 20 to 25 volunteers by the end of April.

Bancel is also part of a wider effort by researchers from Harvard and other local higher ed institutions to combat the spread of the coronavirus. As the Globe notes, dozens of prominent local scientists and biotech leaders—Bancel included—met this week at Harvard Medical School to brainstorm new approaches. That meeting is part of a recently announced $115 million collaboration between scientists at Harvard Medical School and their colleagues in China to help address the threat of the coronavirus.

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