HHS cancels $776M Moderna contract for avian flu vaccine, signaling a major change in vaccine research approach.

Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel ...

Moderna had been awarded over $750 million to develop a vaccine against bird flu, which has been circulating in farm animals and sickening people.

Moderna on Monday said its experimental mRNA-based flu vaccine produced a stronger immune response than a currently available shot in a late-stage trial, clearing a path forward for the product ...

Despite efforts to spare employees by scaling back R&D and reducing operating costs by roughly $1.5 billion over the next two ...

Moderna, based in Cambridge, will lay off 10% of its workforce and expects “to be fewer than 5,000 colleagues strong” by the end of the year as part of its effort to cut costs. In a statement on ...

Moderna already has a bird flu vaccine in very early-stage testing that uses the same mRNA technology that allowed rapid development and rollout of vaccines to protect against COVID-19.

The U.S. health department is canceling or scaling back 22 BARDA-backed mRNA projects worth nearly $500 million, shifting ...