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Public-private groups seek to speed U.K.’s COVID-19 vaccine response
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April 17, 2020 11:21 PM UTC
Updated on Apr 18, 2020 at 1:02 AM UTC
A newly formed U.K. task force aims to expedite the development and production of COVID-19 vaccines while working alongside an industry-led group seeking to scale up the country’s manufacturing capacity.
Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Adviser to the U.K government, and Jonathan van Tam, Deputy CMO for England, are leading the government group, which includes Oxford University’s John Bell, AstraZeneca plc (LSE:AZN; NYSE:AZN) and the Wellcome Trust. Bell is a leading life sciences figure in the U.K., having led the publication of the life sciences industrial strategy report for the government in 2017...