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Founders: Moderna's Noubar Afeyan
Noubar Afeyan is the co-founder of Moderna. He shares his story of fleeing Lebanon as a child to creating one of medicine's biggest breakthroughs, a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
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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Wed 8 Jul 2026
14:32GMT
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