Imi: The ability for the u k to actually pull together the clinical trials and deliver incredibly high quality data has been one of the real jewels in in the response to the pandemic. And is not just in vaccines. I'm sure lotse will remember the recovery study, which basely means you have one plaseboam and then up to six n active arms. So anybody that was admitted into hospital in the u.K,. had an opportunity to enroll in the trial, and it gave data at a scale that it was statistically valid. As about two thousand a patients an arm, that altered the course of the treatment of covid infection around the globe.
Kate Bingham is the former Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce and she's also a shrewd business mind, having been a successful venture capitalist in sectors such as biotech for the past 30 years. She recently spoke with Jessica Pulay at the Cliveden Literary Festival to discuss how business acumen played its part in managing a team of experts from sectors such as science, medicine, industry and academia, in the race to find vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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