Bancel, the former CEO of French lab testing company BioMérieux SA, joined the board in March 2011 and became Moderna’s CEO that October. Langer currently sits on Moderna’s board of directors and scientific advisory board. Elizabeth Tallett Joins Moderna’s Board of Directors. One Facebook post falsely claims he was on the Clinton Foundation board of directors for 20 years and now serves on the board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. June 16, 2020 Moderna to Present at BMO 2020 Prescriptions for Success Healthcare Conference. Dr. … Despite Moderna’s cheery press release this week, the clinical trial results for its groundbreaking COVID vaccine could not be much worse.. (LUDOVIC MARIN/AP) Bill Gates is stepping down from the Microsoft board of directors, the company announced Friday . Bill Gates speaks in France on Oct. 10, 2019. Bill Gates also has funded Moderna, disbursing $20 million to date, with the possibility of a future $80 million. Gates was Microsoft’s chairman of the board until February 2014. Moderna, Inc. is a biotechnology company specialized in research and development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious, autoimmune and cardiovascular diseases. Bill Gates has developed a very close relationship with Warren Buffett since they first met in 1991; Gates served on the Board of Directors of Berkshire Hathaway until March 2020. Turnover per type of income can be broken down as follows: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News reported in 2016 on Gates’ relationship with Moderna: “Moderna Therapeutics said today it received an initial $20 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a new affordable combination of messenger RNA–based antibody therapeutics geared toward preventing HIV infection. Stéphane Bancel has served as Moderna's Chief Executive Officer since October 2011 and as a member of Moderna’s board of directors since March 2011. Bill Gates and … The next day, Moncef Slaoui, a Moderna board member who had just left the company to go to the White House and assume leadership of President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed initiative to … Before joining the Company, Mr. Bancel served for five years as Chief Executive Officer of the French diagnostics company bioMérieux SA. Anthony Fauci has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, but never worked for Moderna. June 25, 2020 Moderna and Catalent Announce Collaboration for Fill-Finish Manufacturing of Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate. The vaccine, developed and championed by Anthony Fauci and financed by Bill Gates, used an experimental mRNA technology that the two men hoped would allow rapid deployment to meet President Trump’s ambitious “warp speed” time line.