Moderna Inc. has recruited John Lepore, a former top public policy lawyer at Mastercard Inc., and two other in-house attorneys as the biotechnology company pushes forward on a potential vaccine for the coronavirus.
Lepore joined Moderna this week as senior vice president of government engagement, a newly created role outside of the legal group.
The Cambridge, Mass.-based company said Aug. 10 that Lepore, who previously spent nearly 15 years in-house at global drug giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC and more than four years at publisher RELX Group PLC, will report directly to Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel.
In a statement, Bancel said Lepore ...