The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain - Couverture souple

Bingham, Kate; Hames, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0861545664 ISBN 13 : 9780861545667

Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2023

Synopsis

The Long Shot, 9780861545667

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Dame Kate Bingham served as the Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, on a seven-month unpaid secondment, steering a team of experts to deliver the world's fastest Covid-19 vaccination programme. She is Managing Partner at life sciences venture capital firm SV Health Investors where she co-leads SV's biotech franchise which has a long history of developing transformational new medicines. SV's investments have led to the launch of twenty drugs for inflammatory and autoimmune disease, blindness and cancer. At SV, Kate co-manages a number of global biotech venture funds which make investments into innovative companies developing novel therapeutics and she helped launch the Dementia Discovery Fund. She is a board member of the Francis Crick Institute and was awarded a DBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for her services as Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce.The author proceeds will be donated to the new university The New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) and early years education, development and advocacy charity Kindred Squared.

Dr Tim Hames started his career as an academic. He was a lecturer in Politics at Oxford University 1989-96, specialising in American and British Government. He then moved to The Times where he became the chief editorial writer, a weekly columnist and regularly edited the newspaper. He was Director General of the British Venture Capital Association from 2013-19.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oneworld Publications
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0861545664
• ISBN 13: 9780861545667
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible