Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine investigator leaves FDA advisory committee over conflict of interest

The FDA’s advisory committee chair has stepped down from reviewing the upcoming pandemic vaccines given her prominent role in Moderna’s late-stage COVID-19 test.

Hana El Sahly, M.D., associate professor of virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, became chairwoman of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee last year.