Shares in Novavax (NVAX) rose 5% in Monday’s trading after the late-stage biotech announced positive second quarter earning results. However the stock subsequently pulled back 2.4% in after-hours trading.The vaccine maker also stated that it secured $2 billion in funding for development and commercialization of NVX-CoV2373, a vaccine candidate engineered from the genetic sequence of SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease.The funding consists of up to $388 million from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI); up to $60 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) funding; and up to $1.6 billion from the U.S. Government funding through …read more
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