President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan visited the “Moderna Therapeutics” biotechnology company on March 29 in the US state of Massachusetts.
President Serzh Sargsyan delivers speech at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
STEPANAKERT, MARCH 30, ARTSAKHPRESS-ARMENPRESS: It was founded in 2011 and is engaged in developing a new generation of drugs. One of the founders is Armenian- American Nubar Afeyan, who is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors. The company’s research team has more than 300 employees. The company has research centers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Sweden's capital Stockholm. The President met the company's founder Nubar Afeyan and CEO Stefan Bansel. Afterwards, they accompanied the President and toured "Moderna Therapeutics", got acquainted with the company’s activities, use of new technologies and future projects of cooperation with major international pharmaceutical companies and research institutions.
As informed the Public Relations and Mass Media Department of the Presidential Administration, the President also visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Media Laboratory of the institution. Serzh Sargsyan had a meeting with the rector of the Institute Rafael Reif, Raphael and co-founder of the Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte, then toured the Media Lab with executive director of the “Luys” Foundation’s Educational Program Jacqueline Karaaslanian, , and then visited the "Samberg" convention center. A meeting with the participation of Armenian-American scientists and scholars and graduates of "Luys" foundation was hosted here. The President then delivered a speech.
