Following allegations of sexual harassment, former head of Operation Warp Speed Moncef Slaoui has left roles at two more companies. Yesterday, Slaoui was terminated as the chair of the Galvani board of directors, GlaxoSmithKline’s board of directors announced. The same day, Vaxcyte confirmed in an SEC filing that it had axed Slaoui as its chairman […]
Operation Warp Speed
Former head of Operation Warp Speed loses board seat over sexual harassment claims
GlaxoSmithKline’s board of directors announced today that it terminated Moncef Slaoui as the chair of the Galvani board of directors. Slaoui previously served as the head of Operation Warp Speed — the Trump administration’s program to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development. He was terminated effective immediately, according to a news release from GSK, the majority shareholder […]
U.S. plans to ship 6.4M COVID-19 vaccine doses to states in mid-December
About 6.4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and its partner BioNTech (NSDQ:BNTX) will ship to U.S. states in mid-December, as long as the vaccine soon receives an FDA EUA. There are also plans to quickly distribute vaccine from rival COVID-19 vaccine developer Moderna (NSDQ:MRNA), which could soon apply for an EUA, officials at the federal […]
How much could Operation Warp Speed change pharma, medtech distribution?
A top U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official used an appearance today at a virtual medtech conference to repeat the U.S. government’s astounding goal for its Operation Warp Speed program: start delivering 300 million doses of a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine by January 2021. The project could revolutionize not only how pharmaceuticals are […]