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...In 1995, the trust divested itself of any interest in pharmaceuticals by selling all remaining stock to Glaxo plc....
...The drugs used were developed by the Wellcome Foundation and Glaxo Laboratories, both now part of UK-listed GSK, which posted £22bn in turnover in the first nine months of last year....
...It was under his successor, Sir Richard Sykes, that Glaxo undertook two major transactions — acquiring Wellcome in 1995 and merging with SmithKline Beecham in 2000 — which radically altered the portfolio...
...Glaxo first bought Wellcome in 1995 and then SmithKline Beecham in 2000, becoming GSK. Glencore acquired Xstrata in 2013....
...Wellcome had its most successful financial year in 2021 since when the trust publicly sold its last remaining shares to Glaxo Plc in 1995 to form the world’s largest pharmaceutical company Glaxo Wellcome...
Appointment catapults pharma executive into leading role in US healthcare industry
...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....
...Wellcome (now GSK), British Telecom and British Aerospace (now BAE Systems)....
...The Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, as they have called it, will be a catalyst to draw in much more money for coronavirus drug development, said Jeremy Farrar, Wellcome director....
...The French are “the most sceptical people in the world about the safety of vaccines”, according to a 2018 Gallup-Wellcome Trust study of 140,000 people in 140 countries....
...Wellcome Trust, Britain’s largest charity with a £25bn endowment, has named Julia Gillard, the former Australian prime minister as its chair. More here....
...Tim Jinks, Wellcome’s head of drug-resistant infections said: “The antibiotic pipeline is fragile and we are delighted to hear of this new initiative....
...He pointed to the merger, almost 20 years ago, of Glaxo Wellcome with SmithKline Beecham, creating global behemoth GSK, which demonstrated that “the process was not as easily ‘industrialisable’ as people...
...publicly funded research free to read by 2024, and an EU-wide initiative called Plan S will next year require scientists supported by signed up investors such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome...
...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....
...Livett joins from the Wellcome Trust, where he has been CFO since 2014. Before this, he worked for Virgin Atlantic, Hudson Global Resources and British Airways....
...Mr Ingram was formerly chief executive of Glaxo Wellcome and oversaw the merger and integration that created GSK....
...Wellcome's warrior A new video game funded by the Wellcome Trust aims to raise awareness of psychosis. Hellblade tells the story of a Celtic warrior's delusions as she dives into the Viking Underworld....
...(NEJM Catalyst, MobiHealthNews) Comics can save lives Comics and cartoons have often been used for public health messaging — as shown in the Wellcome Collection's exhibition — but are now being used for...
...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....
...(NYT) Scandal taints Japan Inc Japan’s elite manufacturers — Kobe Steel, Mitsubishi Materials and Subaru, among others — were thought to be models of elite efficiency....
...(Wellcome Collection) To boldly go . . . Astronauts have very limited room to take supplies into space. The solution?...
...Scientists at Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust are hoping to begin trials next year to test whether anti-inflammatory drugs could switch off depression....
...The fundraising was led by Sequoia Capital, an existing investor, and backers included Wellcome Trust, Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures....
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