NI­H's top vac­cine di­rec­tor re­tires, adding to the ex­o­dus of gov­ern­ment vac­cine ex­per­tise

Af­ter more than 20 years of work­ing at NIH, John Mas­co­la, di­rec­tor of NI­AID’s vac­cine re­search cen­ter and lead on vac­cines for Op­er­a­tion Warp Speed, said Wednes­day that he will re­tire at the end of March.

Mas­co­la, who fol­lows the re­cent de­par­ture of NIH di­rec­tor Fran­cis Collins, was at the cen­ter of ef­forts to de­vel­op not on­ly Mod­er­na’s leg­endary Covid-19 vac­cine, which has now been ad­min­is­tered in mil­lions of peo­ple, but al­so mon­o­clon­al an­ti­bod­ies used to treat Covid-19.

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