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RFK Jr. halts $500 million for mRNA vaccine research

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the federal government is calling off around $500 million worth of vaccine ...

Even Trump’s former Surgeon General has hit out at RFK Jr’s plans to gut vaccine research: ‘Going to cost lives’

Warning comes after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced cuts of nearly $500m in funding for mRNA vaccine projects, ...

RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook

If anyone needed a reminder that US health secretary and fervent anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no ...

What are the implications of RFK Jr. canceling $500M in mRNA vaccine federal funding?

This includes terminating awards and contracts with pharmaceutical companies and universities and canceling 22 investment ...

'Misinformed' or 'speaking in the wrong terms': Doctor rebukes RFK Jr. over cutting mRNA research

As the Trump administration cancels almost $500 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines to protect the U.S. against ...

UTMB vaccine project among $500 million in mRNA cuts announced by RFK Jr.

Neither UTMB nor Moderna has confirmed the nature of the project included in the announcement, or how much funding is being ...

Moderna is laying off 10% of its workforce. Does RFK Jr. have anything to do with it?

Biotech giant Moderna announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce in a move CEO Stéphane Bancel called “a difficult ...