COVID-19 vaccines create 9 new billionaires: Modern’a Afeyan among them
YEREVAN, MAY 22, ARMENPRESS. At least 9 people have become new billionaires since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to the excessive profits made by pharmaceutical companies producing its vaccines, The People’s Vaccine Alliance said.
The 9 new vaccine billionaires are:
Noubar Afeyan, Moderna’s Chairman Stéphane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO Timothy Springer, an immunologist and founding investor of Moderna Robert Langer, a scientist and founding investor in Moderna Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech Juan Lopez-Belmonte, Chairman of ROVI, a company with a deal to manufacture and package the Moderna vaccine Zhu Tao, co-founder and chief scientific officer at CanSino Biologics Qiu Dongxu, co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino Biologics Mao Huihua, also co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino BiologicsIt is reported that the nine new billionaires have a combined net wealth of $19.3 billion.
Editing by Aneta Harutyunyan
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