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Founders: Moderna's Noubar Afeyan

Bbc World Service
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Noubar Afeyan helped bring one of medicine's biggest breakthroughs to the world through Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine. In this episode, he explains why what looked like an overnight success was actually decades in the making.

Presenter: Will Bain Producers: Barbara George and David Cann Researcher: Aleeza Siddiq

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