U.S. President Donald Trump officially appointed, Friday at the White House, Morocco’s Moncef Slaoui as scientific director of Operation Warp Speed, a groundbreaking effort to prepare a vaccine for Covid-19 “very quickly”.
“We are proud to announce (…) that the Chief Scientific Officer of Operation Warp Speed will be Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a world-renowned immunologist who has helped create fourteen new vaccines (…) in ten years during his tenure in the private sector,” President Trump announced at the Rose Garden.
The US President described Dr Slaoui as “one of the most respected men in the world in the production and formulation of vaccines”, noting that the objective of Operation Warp Speed was “to complete the development and then manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine as quickly as possible”.
Speaking on this occasion, Dr. Slaoui said he was “very honored and privileged” to lead this “extraordinary undertaking” in the service of the whole world.
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