Moderna

7 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2021 by Noubar Afeyan · said 28 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Oct 11, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Afeyan: Flagship started four platform projects alongside Moderna's foundation
“In the exact same year that we Did the foundation laying for what became Moderna. We also started four other projects that were each platforms in their own right, going after different aspects of biomedical opportunity space, each with as big a leap, each with…”
Noubar Afeyan Oct 11, 2021 ▶ 43:07 Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
Oct 11, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Afeyan: Moderna released early vaccine data to satisfy public disclosure obligations
“Well, we indeed, in May, we indeed did come out and say at a very high level that we had some encouraging results, and people attacked us every which way for having said that, because they basically said, well, that's doing science by press release and many ot…”
Noubar Afeyan Oct 11, 2021 ▶ 56:20 Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
Oct 11, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Afeyan: Moderna tested 9-10 vaccines and spent $2B pre-COVID
“We had tested nine, maybe even 10 different human vaccines in every single case showing neutralizing antibodies, and we had also another nine programs that were going after human therapeutics, so it was a fairly broad platform that had already been developed. …”
Noubar Afeyan Oct 11, 2021 ▶ 47:30 Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
Oct 11, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Afeyan: The NIH, not Moderna, conducted early COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials
“We didn't do the clinical work. They did.”
Noubar Afeyan Oct 11, 2021 ▶ 57:05 Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
Oct 11, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Afeyan: Moderna scaled from 1,000 to one billion doses in one year
“We could make, you know, a billion doses the first year of production, up from probably making, you know, a thousand doses the year before of anything.”
Noubar Afeyan Oct 11, 2021 ▶ 58:30 Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
Oct 11, 2021
Assertion Supported
Afeyan: Moderna designed the mRNA-1273 vaccine sequence in two days
“And to the time when we had the computer-generated sequence of the RNA, that is essentially today mRNA-twelve-seventy-three, was two days.”
Noubar Afeyan Oct 11, 2021 ▶ 53:11 Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
Oct 11, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Afeyan: 2,000 people received Moderna mRNA before COVID-19 trials
“Before a single vaccine for coronavirus that we tested, we had already 2000 people Who had received mRNA from us.”
Noubar Afeyan Oct 11, 2021 ▶ 49:13 Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
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