“ Read. Every. Word.”
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Well, I Read. Every. Word. And the article reinforced my understanding that Moderna is led at the top by an executive who expects excellence and results. And he holds staffers accountable to those standards and expectations.
I guess you find that leadership style unacceptable. Do you work for government where the “I’m takin’ my sweet time” ethos prevails?
From the article:
Most stunning to employees was the abrupt departure of Joseph Bolen, who came aboard in 2013 to lead Moderna’s R&D efforts.
Bolen was a big-name hire in biotech circles, an experienced chief scientific officer who had guided Millennium Pharmaceuticals to FDA approval for a blockbuster cancer drug. He’d been profiled in The Scientist, which dubbed him “the people’s CSO” for his ability to keep morale high and research focused. Landing him was a coup.
But two years into his tenure at Moderna, he abruptly stepped down last October, making no public statement save for changing his LinkedIn status to “resigned.”
“No scientist in his right mind would leave that job unless there was something wrong with the science or the personnel,” said a person close to the company at the time.
I worked in biotech for about ten years. It is a volatile field. Not unusual for leadership to change rapidly and even the organizations to shut down suddenly.
The ones I worked for are all gone.
Invitron, Synergen, Oncogen.
This is good as I recall.
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2020/06/04/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine/
And here is the woman who figured out how to make it work.
The author behind mrna vaccines.
Its a great read, I think.