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HHS cancels $776M Moderna contract for avian flu vaccine, signaling a major change in vaccine research approach.
The U.S. health department is canceling or scaling back 22 BARDA-backed mRNA projects worth nearly $500 million, shifting ...
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 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.
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 ...
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel ...