Author: Hippocratic Post

Imperial College London has formed a new social enterprise VacEquity Global Health (VGH) to bring its COVID-19 vaccine to the world. For the UK and low-income countries abroad, Imperial and VGH will waive royalties and charge only modest cost-plus prices to sustain the enterprise’s work, accelerate global distribution and support new research. The social enterprise’s […]

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The Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC), a not-for-profit organisation established to provide the UK’s first strategic vaccine development and advanced manufacturing capability has signed its first industry partnership agreement with gene and cell therapy group Oxford Biomedica plc. The agreement signed today involves the organisations collaborating to enable scaled-up manufacture of viral vector based […]

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COVID-19 Series: Vaccines Episode 20 will be broadcast on zoom on Tue 9 Jun 2020 from 12:30pm to 1:00pm. Key speakers: Professor Robin Shattock, Head of Mucosal Infection and Immunity at Imperial College London. Dr Thomas Breuer, Chief Medical Officer at GSK Vaccines. A safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 is generally regarded as the only way […]

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Dental practices in England are set to reopen from Monday [8 June] but it won’t quite be business as usual, with limited treatments on offer and a reduction in the number of patients that can be seen. While dental practices tackle the challenges to bring full dental services back to the public, the Oral Health […]

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The Royal Society of Medicine and the Health Education Kent Surrey Sussex (HEKSS) Deanery, are hosting a new webinar series for all trainees working in frontline medicine. This two-part series will provide case-based scenarios covering the most common acute medical presentations, including cardiology, respiratory, neurology and acute medicine. Experts in their fields, our panel of […]

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