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...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....
...The companies said UKCM’s board was “minded to recommend” the deal to shareholders “excluding” chair Peter Pereira Gray, a former head of the investment division for the Wellcome Trust, who is not backing...
...The latest £200mn project was a collaboration funded by the government, Wellcome Trust, Britain’s biggest biomedical charity, and four pharmaceutical companies....
...Wellcome Trust, the UK’s largest charitable donor and a large institutional investor, also divested from Vista’s funds following the scandal, people familiar with the matter said....
...Glaxo first bought Wellcome in 1995 and then SmithKline Beecham in 2000, becoming GSK. Glencore acquired Xstrata in 2013....
...The UK government’s Genomics England tested the tool’s predictions against its own extensive records of genetic variants causing rare diseases, and was impressed by the results, said Ellen Thomas, deputy...
...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...
...Blackstone and Unite are already big players in the sector, with the former having acquired the iQ Student Accommodation platform from Goldman Sachs and the Wellcome Trust for almost £5bn in 2020, and the...
...Wellcome (now GSK), British Telecom and British Aerospace (now BAE Systems)....
...Later, she winces at the grating jingle for YUU reward points emanating from a branch of the Wellcome supermarket chain....
...For the FRC, as keeper of the UK Corporate Governance Code, such a boardroom falling out is unfortunate....
...“Matt Hancock agrees the UK entered this pandemic unprepared. This is a huge admission of strategic failure.”...
...After the deal, the London-listed group plans to focus on its UK bus and rail operations and other opportunities for growth in the UK, with the US sale proceeds used to reduce its net debt....
...The Wellcome Trust said too much due diligence was needed to be able to meet the deadline....
...A separate bid form investment bank Goldman Sachs and the Wellcome Trust health foundation was withdrawn this summer....
...Harpal Kumar arrived at Cancer Research UK, Britain’s biggest donor-funded charity, in 2002....
...Bidders include private equity groups such as Blackstone, along with institutional investors, such as a joint venture of Goldman Sachs and the Wellcome Trust, the health charity....
...Mr Ingram was formerly chief executive of Glaxo Wellcome and oversaw the merger and integration that created GSK....
...The new institute is the result of a partnership including the MRC, CRUK, the Wellcome Trust and three universities: UCL, King’s College London and Imperial College....
...UK funds have grown to about £4bn in value and spawned several notable ventures....
...UK scientists from the Francis Crick Institute and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute discovered recently that a family of genes called pir determines how long malaria parasites persist in the human body....
...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....
...The bank was Barclays de Zoete Wedd and the charity was the Wellcome Trust, which had just partially sold down its stake in the listed Welcome drugs company, which was subsequently merged with Glaxo....
...Another similar company is the Wellcome Trust’s wholly-owned Syncona evergreen fund....
...Some critics have said that the organisations funding the Crick — the government’s Medical Research Council (MRC) and two charities, Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust — should not have placed it...
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