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Harvard Business Review Press
Peter Loftus
The Messenger
N/A
2022
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Publisher > Harvard Business Review Press
Author > Peter Loftus
Title > The Messenger
Issue > N/A
Year > 2022
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ISBN > 9781647823207
Pages > 445
Genre > Innovation
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > Book
Format > .EPUB
Section > eBook
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Published > 2022-07
Release > 2026-05-24
Disks > 01*1.5MB
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-messenger-moderna-the-vaccine-and-the-business-
gamble-that-changed-the-world-peter-loftus/2c9a6c87c90721f2
The inside story of an unprecedented feat of science and business. At the start
of 2020, Moderna was a biotech unicorn with dim prospects. Yes, there was the
promise of its disruptive innovation that could transform medicine by using
something called messenger RNA, one of the body's building blocks of life, to
combat disease. But its stock was under water. There were reports of a toxic
work culture. And despite ten years of work, the company was still years away
from delivering its first product. Investors were getting antsy, or worse,
skeptical. Then the pandemic hit, and Moderna, at first reluctantly, became a
central player in a global dramaa David to Big Pharma's Goliathsturning its
technology toward breaking the global grip of the terrible disease. By year's
end, with the virus raging, Moderna delivered one of the world's first Covid-19
vaccines, with a stunningly high rate of protection. The achievement gave the
world a way out of a crippling pandemic while validating Moderna's technology,
transforming the company into a global industry power. Biotech, and the venture
capital community that fuels it, will never be the same. Wall Street Journal
reporter Peter Loftus, veteran reporter covering the pharmaceutical and biotech
industries and part of a Pulitzer Prizefinalist team, brings the inside story of
Moderna, from its humble start at a casual lunch through its heady startup days,
into the heart of the pandemic and beyond. With deep access to all of the major
players, Loftus weaves a tale of science and business that brings to life
Moderna's monumental feat of creating a vaccine that beat back a deadly virus
and changed the business of medicine forever. The Messenger spans a decade and
is full of heroic efforts by ordinary people, lucky breaks, and life-and-death
decisions. It's the story of a revolutionary idea, the evolution of a cutting-
edge American industry, and one of the great achievements of this century.
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