Stéphane Bancel, Moderna CEO (Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Con­tin­u­ing to chart post-Covid path, Mod­er­na will build new sci­ence cen­ter near Mass­a­chu­setts head­quar­ters

As Mod­er­na con­tin­ues to bal­loon in­to one of the largest mar­ket caps in the world, the biotech at the fore­front of the Covid-19 vac­cine field is seek­ing to con­tin­ue cap­i­tal­iz­ing on its new­found for­tune.

Mod­er­na an­nounced Thurs­day it will be con­struct­ing a new sci­ence cen­ter near its Cam­bridge, MA head­quar­ters, aimed at sup­port­ing the com­pa­ny’s “next chap­ter of dis­cov­ery,” it said in a re­lease. The new cen­ter will sit on 462,000 square feet, akin to a floor space about 33% larg­er than NASA’s ve­hi­cle as­sem­bly build­ing at the Kennedy Space Cen­ter in Flori­da.

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