Mod­er­na chair­man Noubar Afeyan de­fends vet­ting process in wake of CFO scan­dal — re­port

A week af­ter Mod­er­na’s new CFO Jorge Gomez was oust­ed af­ter just one day on the job, the com­pa­ny con­tin­ues to stand be­hind its vet­ting process.

Flag­ship’s Noubar Afeyan — who co-found­ed Mod­er­na and is cur­rent­ly chair­man of the board — told the Fi­nan­cial Times on Wednes­day that le­gal con­straints pre­vent­ed Mod­er­na from find­ing out about an in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion launched by Gomez’s last em­ploy­er, Dentsply, un­til last week.

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