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With its stock in a slump, Moderna makes the case for its big-money valuation

With its stock in a slump, Moderna makes the case for its big-money valuation.

SAN FRANCISCO — Moderna Therapeutics had record-setting success raising money from private investors, but the much-discussed biotech has struggled to convince the public markets of its industry-upending potential, and its stock price has slumped nearly 30 percent in the weeks following what was biotech’s largest-ever initial public offering.

That left Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, speaking before a standing-room crowd at the industry’s premiere gathering on Tuesday, with a curious task: convincing investors that

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