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...Meanwhile, our share of the global pharmaceutical R&D market is declining....
...In 1811, the Reverend Richard Bingham tried to plant the blame for unsigned and incendiary letters upon local “foresters” after he himself burnt down the rectory he’d recently insured for a tidy sum....
...Kate Bingham, the venture capitalist who led the UK’s Covid-19 vaccine task force, said the government should reform R&D tax incentives to ensure they support cutting-edge research....
...Commendably, ministers have pledged to increase total R&D spending to 2.4 per cent of GDP by 2027....
...She and her team had been “able to go to academics or companies, and say, ‘we’d like to work with you and we have the budget to do so’,” she added....
...Fabio & Grooverider (aka Fitzroy Heslop and Raymond Bingham) have been dance-floor heavyweights for decades....
...He’d hold it up and shout ‘jungle!’, talking about his weed. And then people started shouting ‘jungle’ whenever we played.”...
...This year’s corporate blockbusters include former winner William D Cohan, who took the prize in 2007 with The Last Tycoons, about Lazard Frères....
...Last week, global bioscience leaders gathered at the SV annual forum at the Francis Crick Institute: the chief executives, R&D and commercial leaders of big pharmaceutical companies along with innovators...
...David Bingham, heir of the house, is expected to enter an arranged marriage....
...If we’d gone in and said ‘you’re charging us too much’, then they’d have replied ‘it was lovely to know you’ and walked away....
...I’d have found it difficult not to gush. I’d read her electric novel in a day and felt simultaneously affirmed and attacked by it....
...Venture capitalist Kate Bingham had decades of experience in biotech....
...“But imagine if we’d got it wrong.”...
...I had a fantasy that I’d go to a costumier and hire a Madame de Pompadour wig [for her last day as a judge on the Court of Appeal]....
...However, Pfizer executive Frank D’Amelio is looking forward to that changing when the pandemic ends. “Normal market forces . . . will start to kick in,” he told a conference this month....
...As head of the vaccine task force, Kate Bingham was a triumph; Dido Harding, head of test and trace, not so much....
...“The data is fantastic — as good as it could have been at this stage,” said Kate Bingham, chair of the UK government’s Vaccine Taskforce....
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...At 20, I’d never been a character in a book, and Sebastian could not have been more generous....
...The second was that of the government’s collective accountability to parliament, which, as the late Tom Bingham, a law lord, said in 2006, “lies at the heart of Westminster democracy”....
...“My great-great-grandparents were Bair and my grandfather added a ‘d’ to the end of his name making our name Baird,” he says....
...“They certainly asked about UK headquarters, UK jobs, UK R&D in particular . . . Our focus is about creating and building on the rich technology resources that are right here [in the UK].”...
...The bugger was Strachey, though he’d experimented with sex with Carrington....
...“When he came in to see us, it was like talking to a professional neuroscientist,” said Kate Bingham, managing partner of SV Health, the venture fund that runs DDF....
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