By casting doubt about the promise of mRNA tech, RFK Jr. is slowing progress toward highly effective therapies that could ...

This culminated in a $500m funding cut to mRNA vaccine research funding, impacting around 22 projects being run at the ...

Vinay Prasad, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), has also been particularly outspoken ...

Venture financing for companies developing innovator mRNA-based drugs more than halved from $1.1m in 2023 to $488m in 2024.

Venture financing for mRNA-based innovator vaccines saw an 82% decline from $510 million in 2023 to $90 million in 2025 ...

While mRNA changed the game in vaccines, leveraging the technology to develop treatments has been trickier to navigate.

The $48 million award, granted through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, will help Kernal take its in vivo ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. canceled $500 million of funding for research on mRNA vaccine technology. He's seen here at a Sept. 4, 2025, hearing before the Senate Finance ...

RFK Jr. canceled $500 million of funding for research on mRNA vaccine technology. Anadolu/Getty Images At a Sept. 4, 2025, hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Health and Human Services ...

NEW YORK -- When the final Phase 3 data came out last November showing the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were more than 90% effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci had no words. He texted ...