GSK fires former U.S. vaccine head Slaoui over harassment allegation

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GSK said the termination of Slaoui’s contract at Galvani Bioelectronics was with immediate effect. Slaoui, the former chief adviser to the U.S. COVID-19 vaccine development programme known as Operation Warp Speed, was not immediately reachable for comment by telephone and LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) account.

GSK said an investigation of Slaoui’s conduct had substantiated allegations of harassment and inappropriate contact and the probe was ongoing.

The termination of Slaoui’s contract follows receipt of a letter containing the allegations of inappropriate conduct towards the employee of GSK, the company said. GSK said the allegations stemmed from when Slaoui was an employee of GSK.

Galvani is a bioelectronic medicines set up in 2016 by GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) and verily, the life sciences unit of Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL).

Prior to his role at Galvani, Slaoui spent nearly 30 years at GlaxoSmithKline holding various leadership roles including Head of Pharmaceutical R&D and Chairman of its Vaccines division.