Meet Noubar Afeyan, the chairman and cofounder of Moderna - Business Insider

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Meet Moderna's cofounder and chairman, whose coronavirus vaccine was just approved and is now rolling out nationwide. He loves basketball and Dolly Parton.

At the age of 13, Afeyan's family moved from Lebanon to Canada during the Lebanese Civil War.Prior to his move, he'd never seen snow before, he said.Noubar Afeyan at his high school graduation in 1978., and went on to attend McGill University. He graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1983.

A view of Building 7 on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 31, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts"The field was being invented" while Afeyan and fellow students were doing their work, he said. Then, in 1985, Afeyan had a transformative encounter. He had been sent to represent MIT at a National Science Foundation meeting in Washington DC, and he struck up a conversation with a fellow attendee over lunch.

 

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