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  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    Medical science
    Britain is losing its chance to become a life sciences superpower

    Short-termism and suspicion in parts of government risk our valuable future in precision medicine

    BioNTech coronavirus vaccine production in Marburg, Germany
  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Long Shot — Kate Bingham on Britain’s Covid vaccine rollout

    The head of the UK’s vaccine procurement tells the inside story of the risks, criticism and political interference she faced

    People sit on socially distanced chairs in a vaccination centre
  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Nimble UK regulator is a draw for drugmakers, says former vaccines chief

    Kate Bingham urges fund managers to step up investment in life sciences

    Kate Bingham
  • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
    Robert Shrimsley
    Omicron revolt shows Tories haven’t learnt how to live with Covid

    There may be real fights about freedom ahead — resisting proportionate temporary public health measures is not one of them

    Ellie Foreman-Peck  illustration of Robert Shrimsley column ‘Omicron revolt shows Tories haven’t learned how to live with Covid’
  • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
    Biotech
    Covid has given UK biotech a lesson — and a legacy

    Good venture capitalism should build companies up, developing medicines that deliver public good and profit

    A woman receives her Covid booster at a pharmacy in London. The collaboration between the private sector and public health that brought about the Covid vaccines will enable us to tackle other health crises too
  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
    The FT’s 25 most influential women of 2021 

    Written by Christine Lagarde, Elizabeth Warren, Malala Yousafzai, Jane Fraser, Greta Thunberg and many more

  • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
    InterviewCovid-19 vaccines
    Vaccine rollout and lessons from the pandemic: watch live now

    Ugur Sahin, Kate Bingham, Seth Berkley and Martin Lush talk to the FT about how to improve pandemic responses

  • Saturday, 3 April, 2021
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    UK vaccine supremo Kate Bingham: ‘The bickering needs to stop’

    The venture capitalist on the race to secure the right jabs — and why she is not a beneficiary of ‘chumocracy’

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    News in-depthUK politics
    ‘The best and worst of Boris’: Johnson’s stewardship of Covid crisis

    One year on from the first lockdown, PM hopes to salvage reputation with vaccine rollout

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    UK politics
    Covid vaccine PR executive linked to Dominic Cummings’ father-in-law

    Director of firm paid £670,000 to advise task force is business associate of Humphry Wakefield

    Kate Bingham, chair of the UK government’s vaccine task force, is stepping down from the role in December
  • Monday, 9 November, 2020
    UK politics
    UK vaccine tsar to step down at end of year

    Departure comes amid criticism over hiring of PR company

    Kate Bingham, chair of UK Vaccine Taskforce, near her office in Holborn in July
  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    AstraZeneca misses target for delivery of UK Covid vaccine

    Head of government taskforce confident that vulnerable people will receive vaccinations by summer

  • Sunday, 4 October, 2020
    Coronavirus: free to read
    Less than half UK population to receive vaccine, says task force head

    PM warns of ‘bumpy’ winter while data ‘issue’ blamed for 16,000-case backlog pushing numbers to record high

  • Friday, 14 August, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    UK secures another 90m doses of potential Covid-19 vaccines

    Deals with J&J and Novavax bring country’s total advance orders to 340m doses

    If the vaccines prove to be safe and effective, both could be delivered in mid-2021
  • Wednesday, 29 July, 2020
    Coronavirus: free to read
    ‘Silver bullet’ to beat Covid-19 unlikely, warns UK vaccine chief

    Kate Bingham of government task force plays down hopes of lifetime immunity despite recent positive trial results

    Kate Bingham, chair of the UK’s vaccine task force, warned that even a two-dose vaccine might not last very long
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