'Mod­er­na will be a rare dis­ease com­pa­ny,' CEO says, as mR­NA com­pa­ny plots ex­pan­sion in ge­net­ic dis­eases and eyes n-of-1 treat­ments

Just a few years ago, Mod­er­na faced a cho­rus of doubts over whether its ex­per­i­men­tal mR­NA tech­nol­o­gy would ever work well enough to be­come a med­i­cine. Af­ter the $36 bil­lion suc­cess of its Covid-19 vac­cines, the ques­tion now be­comes: What’s next?

The biotech’s an­swer over the past year has been “more of every­thing,” in­clud­ing an ex­pan­sive in­fec­tious dis­ease vac­cine pipeline and de­vel­op­ing per­son­al­ized can­cer vac­cines with Mer­ck. And now, ear­ly signs of suc­cess us­ing the mes­sen­ger mol­e­cule to make ther­a­peu­tic pro­teins in the liv­er have Mod­er­na ec­sta­t­ic about yet an­oth­er ap­pli­ca­tion for mR­NA.

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