No drug for COVID: ‘the most successful failure in my life’

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Laura Walker co-founded a spin-off company, but she moved to big pharma after the therapy the firm had been testing came to nothing. She explains why.

In March, Laura Walker left the biopharmaceutical company she had co-founded three years earlier to join Moderna as the head of its infectious disease biotherapeutics team in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The biggest challenge was simultaneously building a functional organization and developing a drug at record speed, during a pandemic. While that was happening, I had a two-year-old and a four-year-old at home. The company was also virtual, which was a challenge because you don’t have those closer relationships from talking in the lunch room.

Sometimes in life, you’re presented with an offer that you can’t refuse. I had the opportunity to use messenger RNA technology to develop biotherapeutics and specifically antibodies. To me, it’s the obvious next step for the technology. Moderna has published a proof of conceptshowing that mRNA technology can deliver antibodies safely to humans and hit concentrations that, at least for COVID-19, we know are protective.

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