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...The Wellcome Trust estimates that not until 2023 or 2024 will everyone who needs a vaccine be able to receive one....
...The deal, to be announced on Friday, will generate up to $340m for the university and Wellcome over the next few years if it produces a commercially successful drug....
...“Science is moving at a phenomenal pace against Covid-19, but to get ahead of this epidemic we need greater investment and to ensure research co-ordination,” Sir Jeremy said....
...Wellcome Trust, Britain’s largest charity with a £25bn endowment, has named Julia Gillard, the former Australian prime minister as its chair. More here....
...Almost all of the £1bn annual investment and research grants offered by the Wellcome Trust come with an expectation that public engagement is integrated into a project’s strategy....
...(Wellcome Collection) To boldly go . . . Astronauts have very limited room to take supplies into space. The solution?...
...The pledge — made by nearly a dozen groups including the Wellcome Trust and the UK Medical Research Council — is a boost for innovation and safety....
...So Burroughs Wellcome discovered AZT. We we then have 3TC. We've been on this journey as a company, Burroughs Wellcome Glaxo Wellcome, GlaxoSmithKline, and now ViiV....
...Line, Unilever and Wellcome we weren’t able to get hold of by pixel time....
...The writer, a former editor of the FT, is the co-author with Michael Hopkins of ‘Science, the State and the City’...
...One of its predecessor companies, Burroughs Wellcome, was responsible for AZT, the first HIV drug approved by US regulators in 1987 — and the focus of Oscar-winning film Dallas Buyers Club....
...GSK has been a big player in the HIV market since one of its predecessor companies, Burroughs-Wellcome, developed AZT, the first HIV drug approved by US regulators in 1987 — and the focus of the Oscar-winning...
...Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, a technology entrepreneur, is co-founder and chairman....
...One the authors of that paper was Jeremy Farrar, director of the London-based Wellcome Trust, the world’s second-largest medical charity after the Gates Foundation....
...Together, these and a series of other deals have created the most vigorous period of mergers and acquisitions among drugmakers since the turn of the century, when Pfizer bought Warner-Lambert and Glaxo Wellcome...
...By the time Sir Henry Wellcome, co-founder of the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome & Co, was building his huge collection of things in the late 19th century, the “cabinet of curiosities” was a little...
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...The sole pharmaceuticals entrepreneur to break into our top 50 was Henry Wellcome, co-founder of Burroughs Wellcome, a forerunner of today’s GlaxoSmithKline....
...A veteran of the pharmaceuticals industry, he experienced a big merger while working for SmithKline Beecham when it combined with Glaxo Wellcome in 2000....
...That was what happened in the last big round of consolidation, around the turn of the millennium, through Glaxo Wellcome’s merger with SmithKline Beecham and Pfizer’s with Warner-Lambert and Wyeth....
...In 1981, fresh out of college, he was selling computers for Burroughs Corp, the precursor to Unisys. He took a job on Saturdays delivering packages for FedEx....
...“In the Wellcome Trust we have a buyer whose values are closely aligned to those of The Co-operative,” said Richard Pennycook, the Co-op’s interim group chief executive....
...Donors including the European Commission, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust have so far committed £18m to its development and manufacturing....
...lukej@riskcapitalpartners.co.uk Twitter: @LukeJohnsonRCP The writer is chairman of Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and The Centre for Entrepreneurs...
...When Burroughs-Wellcome merged in 1995 with Glaxo, another UK company with an early HIV treatment, the combined group became the undisputed market leader....
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