Se­cre­tive? Mod­er­na de­tails its pipeline strat­e­gy at JPM but at least one crit­ic bites back

Mod­er­na out­lined its pipeline strat­e­gy at JP Mor­gan this week, fo­cus­ing specif­i­cal­ly on five clin­i­cal-stage pro­grams for new vac­cines as a rel­a­tive­ly low-risk ap­proach to demon­strat­ing that their mes­sen­ger RNA tech­nol­o­gy and the plat­form work. But the kick­back didn’t take long to strike, as a per­sis­tent crit­ic at Stat picked at one trou­bled pro­gram while rais­ing ques­tions about the over­all val­ue of an en­try-lev­el ap­proach fo­cused on a high vol­ume, low-mar­gin busi­ness like vac­cines.

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