Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Transcript: Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla on "Face the Nation A spokesperson for Pfizer told The Associated Press that Myriam Bourla is "alive and well." The official called the incorrect claims "lies" meant to undermine public confidence in the company's COVID-19 vaccine. Albert Bourla, CEO of drugmaker Pfizer, has tested positive for Covid-19 and has "very mild symptoms," he said in a tweet on Monday. But the fundamental is that what really helped us and BioNTech and the teams that they worked very hard to develop in record time, such a success,were two things:One was that we reallythoughtbig. Transcript: WP Subscriber Exclusive: Albert Bourla, Author, "Moonshot They didnt do it, most of them, and they didnt do it because they placed orders either with other vaccines from China, from Russia, some other solution, maybe from AstraZeneca. The other thing that I learned, because that gave me the opportunity to speak with a lot of leaders You realize that they are human beings. Youve been through two quite different American presidents. from 1999 to present. Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla joined the Atlantic Council to talk about his collaboration with BioNTech on the COVID-19 vaccine, his take on misinformation and politics in medicine, and his personal story. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla couldn't have dreamed he would play a lead role in Israel's ongoing election drama. Pfizer Chairman and CEO AlbertBourlajoined the Atlantic Council to talk about his collaboration with BioNTech on the COVID-19 vaccine,his take onmisinformation and politics in medicine, and hispersonal story. In 2022, he was named the Genesis Prize Laureate in recognition of his leadership . Hippolyte Fofack. [We],living as a very, very small minority in Greece,wehad to learn how to be able to thrive whilewerevery, very different than everybody else. How damaging was this to us? "We know that the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection, if any," Dr Bourla said. But will they change? And the second was that there was a very deep,instilled sense of purpose. [12], He was promoted to chief executive officer in October 2018, effective January 1, 2019, succeeding Ian Read, his mentor. Albert Bourla - Chief Executive Officer - Pfizer | LinkedIn The job was in Athens,so to join Pfizer I did the first relocation, which I found very difficult to do,from Thessaloniki to Athens. So that was easy. ALBERT BOURLA:I would say two things. Related Experts: There is a third application, which is for people that they are born with a mistake in their DNA code, and there are a lot of rare diseases;they are happening to people because somewhere in one gene there is one small mistake in their DNA, and those people,theyhave tolive without until the end of their lives and many times their lifedoesntlast very long because of this mistake in their genes. Pfizer CEO says it's possible to distribute both boosters and primary This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Une communaut juive vivante et dynamique. And the sameisas a Greek coming to America with a very thick accent. We dont havesuccess yetoverthere as we didnt have a success in vaccines before COVID-19. "I'm feeling well and symptom free," Bourla said in a. Why is it youve been able to produce something of quite historic nature whenmany corporate collaborations among CEOsandfounders of companies dont work in quite the same way? But youve had to deal with a lot of politics in the last eighteen months. Albert Bourla made the comments in an interview with Yahoo Finance after the company announced a new Omicron-specific version of the vaccine would be ready by March, with doses already being manufactured. In 2009 he promoted the launch of Improvac on the European Market. AfricaSource [12] From 2005 to 2009, he served as area president for Animal Health's Europe, Africa and Middle East division. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla in Puurs, Belgium, Friday, April 23, 2021. The mRNA technology is trying to reverse this challenge. Now, you put a piece of the virus so that you will not get the disease, or you put the deadvirus,or you put the modified virus,or there are new technologies, but this is the fundamental[part of most vaccines], that youre putting a piece of the virus so that your body will developanimmune response. In an internal email obtained by Forbes, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said he was "disappointed" in how a potential coronavirus vaccine "was discussed in political terms rather than . And, if anything, I think the fact that wehave botha little bit of Mediterranean heritage created [an] even stronger bond and trustThe fact that we had sucha big trustinone another cascaded down and our teamstrusted each other too, and that was why this thing happened so well. So that also followed me all the way to the COVID-19vaccine. They never[made us think]that we must pay back those that did that to us or to our family. These teams reallythoughtbig. FREDERICK KEMPE:So now lets talk about theperiod of timefrom March 20,2020,to today. 20 Things You Didn't Know about Albert Bourla - Money Inc ALBERT BOURLA:Yes. Watch the full version of the interview with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla that aired March 13, 2022, on "Face the Nation.""Face the Nation" is America's premier . Of course, there will be changes because of things we learn. The five drug company executives, who collectively head the pharmaceutical firms that were the most politically active in 2019 as measured by PAC donations, gave almost exclusively to Republicans and political action committees that use their money to support Republicans running for office. Lawmakers heading into the 2020 elections face increasing pressure to pare back the costs consumers pay for drugs. We realized that Mrs. Bourla was a subscriber to Scarsdale 10583 and asked her to discuss her life since the news broke that the Pfizer vaccine was effective. An edited video was shared to claim that Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said that they wanted to reduce world population by 50 percent by 2023. In an interview with CNBC, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla stated that two doses of the vaccine give modest protection, if any, whereas three doses with a booster offer reasonable protection against hospitalisation and mortality but less protection against infection. [51] To benefit Greece, he organized vaccine donations, medical aid for refugees, and more than $1 million in medicine to help uninsured patients. Pfizer CEO: 'Disappointed' in presidential debate, vows no political Spokespersons for Merck and AbbVie didnt return requests for comment. I took a plane [back], and on theplane,I wrote down the priorities that I felt that a company like ours should have, and the first wasthatwe need to make sure that we protect the safety of our people. CNN . "Ensuring as many people as possible are fully vaccinated with the first two dose series and a booster remains the best course of action to prevent the spread of COVID-19," Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla . [18][3], In an interview he gave to the BBC in December 2021, Bourla said there is no doubt in my mind that the benefits, completely, are in favour of vaccinating five to 11 year old children against Covid-19. There is going to be a huge need for good medicines. Pfizer boss warns on risk of fast-tracking vaccines Soto make sure that the vaccine is available for all, there were two things that we had to do. We reduced that to six therapeuticareas,and we were able to become the best in each one of them. When it comes to leadership, people dont know what they can and cannot do and, if anything, they have a severe tendency to underestimate what they can achieve. Trying to be able to prove yourself also requires that you fight for what you believe is right. I think science is at the cuspto beable to provide solutions for this. Buteventually, they convinced me to do it and it was always my idea that for me,it wouldbe kind of a sabbatical. And if people are given the resources and they are given a very biggoal, if you force them to think big, they will surprise youwith what type of solutions to any single problem they will bring. Pfizer CEO: 'Disappointed' in presidential debate, vows no political pressure on Covid shot Albert Bourla's memo to staff asserts Pfizer's independence in the face of strong pressure from the. These are just three of the very hot cutting-edge technological fronts that right now we are working on. That wasan extremelyinteresting experience. They decided to build a life together, and then they had me and my[sister]. Bourla, 58, who was born in Greece and trained to be a veterinarian before working his way up the ranks at Pfizer, plans to price the vaccine to make a profit, but believes governments should. Wall Street Journal Bestseller2022 Genesis Prize LaureateThe exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla.A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the . The UK has now secured an extra 114 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to be. The development of a vaccine became the essence of the debate, whichitshouldnt be. Fromfifty thousandJews, onlytwo thousandsurvived,thatsa 96 percent extermination in the city of Thessaloniki in Greece, and among thosetwo thousandwere my father and mother. ", "Pfizer's CEO is stepping down after 8 years meet the man who will be replacing him", https://www.improvac.com/assets/document/tim1009techbulletin_0509.pdf, https://www.youtube.com/embed/ImBvMvmWNKg?controls=0&, Improvac: Pfizer's Albert Bourla on the boar taint vaccine, "Pfizer, Mylan to Team Up on Generics Business in Japan", "Pfizer's CEO Ian Read to leave in January", "Drugmaker Pfizer's CEO Read to be replaced by COO Bourla", "Behind Pfizer's latest upheaval at the top", "How Pfizer Set the Cost of Its New Drug at $9,850 a Month", "Pfizer Sets Up Succession Plan With Creation of Operating Chief Role", "Pfizer's incoming CEO represents pipeline push over dealmaking", "Pfizer executive vice president leaving company by 'mutual agreement', "Pfizer creates chief operating officer role for Bourla", "PFIZER NAMES ALBERT BOURLA CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER", "Pfizer to replace longtime CEO Read with veteran Bourla", "Pfizer Prepares for CEO Transition With Executive Suite Changes", "Drug company CEOs admit prescription prices are too high.