Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA), closed up over 4% on Tuesday at $16.95 trading over 1.8 Million shares by the market close. Moderna is a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced recent updates to several of its immuno-oncology and rare disease programs and outlined its 2019-2020 corporate objectives. Moderna has 21 mRNA development candidates in its pipeline, with 11 programs now in clinical development. "This year we are focused on making significant advances to our pipeline as we work to bring multiple programs into Phase 2 clinical trials, move programs within our rare disease portfolio toward the clinic and leverage our mRNA platform to create both new development candidates and potential new modalities where we believe there is an opportunity to develop therapies for a broad range of diseases," said Stéphane Bancel, Moderna's Chief Executive Officer.