Ex-FDA com­mish Stephen Hahn joins Flag­ship, a ven­ture group that spawned Covid-19 vac­cine mak­er Mod­er­na

That re­volv­ing door be­tween the FDA and in­dus­try is spin­ning even faster than usu­al.

For­mer FDA com­mis­sion­er Stephen Hahn is join­ing Flag­ship Pi­o­neer­ing, the ven­ture out­fit that found­ed Mod­er­na — which raced its way to an FDA EUA for a Covid-19 vac­cine that is mak­ing bil­lions of dol­lars — as the new CMO of its Pre­emp­tive Med­i­cine and Health Se­cu­ri­ty ini­tia­tive.

Flag­ship con­firmed the hire — first re­port­ed in The Wash­ing­ton Post — in a state­ment out late Mon­day.

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