A German biotech company says it did not receive an offer from President Trump to buy exclusive access to a coronavirus vaccine.
The report also said Trump wanted CureVac to move its research group to the United States from Tübingen, the southern German town where the company is based. The company has offices in Boston but its main research is not carried out there.on Sunday that the article was correct but that Germany was working to ensure any vaccines would be available to all.Karl Lauterbach, a member of the German Bundestag and a professor of health economics and epidemiology.
By Monday, the White House had dismissed the charge, CureVac said it had no offer from the United States and the German government was meeting about the issue. White House aides told the Washington Post Monday they wereCureVac's majority shareholder said Monday “it was not an option” for the company to develop the vaccine exclusively for the United States.
“It goes without saying that it cannot be that a German company develops the vaccine and that it is used exclusively in the USA,” Dietmar HoppCureVac issued a news release on March 3 announcing that its CEO, Daniel Menichella, was invited to the White House to discuss vaccine development with Trump and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, together with other companies working on vaccines.abruptly five days ago. A CureVac news release gave no reason for his departure.
CureVac’s focus is on messenger RNA-based vaccines and cancer therapies. RNA is what genes use to tell cells which proteins to assemble. Such a vaccine could carry a non-infective blueprint of the coronavirus protein, triggering the production of antibodies that would give the person getting vaccinated immunity from the disease.
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