Moderna, Inc. engages in the development of transformative medicines based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA). The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and currently employs 5,600 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2018-12-07. The firm is advancing a new class of medicines made of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA). The company is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases and autoimmune diseases, independently and with its strategic collaborators. mRNA medicines are designed to direct the body’s cells to produce intracellular, membrane or secreted proteins that have a therapeutic or preventive benefit with the potential to address a spectrum of diseases. Its diverse development pipeline consists of 45 therapeutic and vaccine programs, nine of which are in late-stage development. Its products include COVID-19 vaccines (mRNA-1273/Spikevax, next-generation mRNA-1283), RSV vaccine (mRNA-1345), Seasonal influenza vaccines (mRNA-1010, mRNA-1011, mRNA-1012, mRNA-1020 and mRNA-1030), Combination vaccines (mRNA-1083, mRNA-1230, mRNA-1045 and mRNA-1365), CMV vaccine (mRNA-1647), EBV vaccine (mRNA-1189 and mRNA-1195) and others.