An Example of Tech in Drugs.

Moderna runs its proprietary Drug Design Studio network application in the cloud and uses the cloud’s scalable computing and storage infrastructure to rapidly analyze and design the mRNA sequence of target proteins. Scientists and engineers also use fully managed cloud data storage services to integrate insights from multiple experiments running in parallel and quickly optimize design and production cycles. Additionally, the adoption of cloud principles, such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Security as Code, helps automate the Good Practice (GxP) compliance process, so the organization can move quickly while maintaining security and compliance. Thanks in part to the cloud, Moderna was able to deliver its first clinical candidate vaccine (mRNA1273) to the National Institutes of Health. Just 42 days after the initial sequencing of the virus, the health status of the first phase of the trial, “because you don’t have to reinvent everything, you just have to fly,” Bansell said.