'The biggest inflection point ever': On R&D day, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel doubles down on vaccines and lays out a vision for a '40, 50'-drug biotech
The stakes have always been different for Moderna. They didn’t invest more in the Covid-19 vaccine race than Pfizer, Sanofi or AstraZeneca, and they didn’t have more to lose than Novavax — a $100 million biotech that became a $7 billion company virtually overnight. But they had considerably more to gain than anyone.
Born with grand ambitions and the checkbook to match, Moderna spent its first decade of life attracting as many critics of its vision to remake drug development as it did backers. But the pandemic presented a twin opportunity: to prove its technology on a global stage and to give a still-young biotech billions in annual revenue years before anticipated.
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