Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company focusing on mRNA vaccines, has announced a reduction in force.
Responding to lowered demands for COVID-19 therapeutics, the company has laid off an unspecified number of manufacturing and quality-assurance employees in its Burlington, Massachusetts, and Norwood, Massachusetts, facilities. This comes as the company has completed the construction of a new mRNA manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada.
According to a company spokesperson noting previously announced decisions to reduce COVID-related manufacturing expenditures, the layoffs are occurring in the company's manufacturing unit in response to resizing its COVID production work. We thank these individuals for their contributions to Moderna and to patients worldwide.”
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