Moncef Slaoui with Glaxo chief executive Emma Walmsley at the opening ceremony for the Slaoui Centre for Vaccines Research in Rockville, in 2016A former senior GlaxoSmithKline executive who became the Trump administration’s vaccine tsar has been dismissed from a company controlled by the British drugs maker after an investigation was said to have “substantiated” allegations that he had sexually harassed an employee. Glaxo received a letter last month containing allegations of misconduct by Moncef Slaoui which occurred several years ago when he was an employee of the company. SponsoredThe company said that an investigation by an external US law firm had “substantiated the allegations and is ongoing”. Slaoui, 61, who was head of vaccine research at Glaxo until 2017, has been fired from his remaining post at Glaxo where he was chairman of Galvani Bioelectronics, a joint venture with Verily Life Sciences, part of Google’s parent

Source: The Times March 24, 2021 16:52 UTC