TRIALS OF COURAGE

“This clinical trial will either be the most important clinical trial that happend in all of oncology in the next five years…

…or it will be the biggest dud”

The problem:

People are dying of Melanoma cancer

Dr. Jason Luke of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

The idea behind it

Dr. Stephen Hoge President of Moderna

The opportunity:

A life saving cancer vaccine

Dr. Meredith McKean of the Sarah Cannon Research Institute

Unchartered territory

Dr. Michelle Brown, Program Leader, Oncology at Moderna

The world’s first personalized vaccine for Melanoma.

A Watershed moment for treating cancer

Moderna Team

Derrick Rossi

Scientist that founded Moderna 

Scientists

Stephen Hoge

President of Moderna.

Lavina Talukdar

Head Investor Relations at Moderna

Katalin Karikó

One half of the Nobel Prize winning scientist team that pioneered mRNA research. 

Stephane Bancel 

CEO of Moderna.

Drew Weissman

The other half of the Nobel Prize winning scientist team that made mRNA a viable option in the world of immunology. 

Noubar Afeyan

Entrepreneur and venture capitalist that co-founded Moderna.

Vaccine Trial Doctors

Ryan Sullivan

FEATURING

Meredith McKean

Thuy Tran

Jason Luke

Going to market

Should the phase III clinical trial results of the melanoma cancer vaccine prove to be as positive as the phase II were, it will be fast tracked to market and be the first ever personalized cancer vaccine approved by the FDA.

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