The president receives the vice-president of Moderna, who is planning major investments in Spain

2022.6.14

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Moncloa Palace, Madrid

During the meeting, which was also attended by the Minister for Health, Carolina Darias, and the Secretary General for Economic Affairs and G-20, Manuel de la Rocha, the head of the Executive valued the pharmaceutical company's commitment to Spain to promote messenger RNA technology in Europe.

Moderna acknowledged the government's support in making Spain a benchmark for pharmaceutical innovation. Staner has announced a new Moderna investment in Spain worth more than 500 million euros. The company plans to build a quality testing laboratory for messenger RNA vaccines. Moderna is currently working in collaboration with Rovi on a messenger RNA vaccine production plant in Granada and another in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid).

Pedro Sánchez has highlighted the Government of Spain's support for the pharmaceutical sector and R&D&I in recent years and highlighted both the fact that the budget of the Ministry of Science and Innovation has doubled to over 3,800 million euros from 2020 to 2022, and measures such as the Science Law.

The Chief Executive also stressed that the sector is one of the priorities within the Recovery Plan, highlighting the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE) of Vanguard Healthcare, which aims to mobilise 1.5 billion euros in public and private investment.

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