Overview
- Health Minister Mikhail Murashko announced that Logunov takes over as director effective December 22.
- Alexander Gintsburg leaves the director’s post to serve as the center’s scientific director.
- Logunov said the center will carry forward its planned work, highlighting mRNA cancer vaccines and readiness against pathogens with pandemic potential.
- Earlier in December, the center’s mRNA facility produced three pilot batches of a cancer vaccine.
- Logunov led the team behind the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, while Gintsburg’s tenure since 1997 included Ebola and COVID-19 vaccine programs.