UK Attacks Pandemic With Funding For Drug And Vaccine Trials

Biotech Industry Body Assembles COVID-19 Task Force

 
• By Ian Schofield
  
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Efforts are under way in the UK on many fronts to develop new treatments and vaccines for coronavirus infection, including researching new uses of existing products and clinical trials of new vaccines.

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The UK is funding various kinds of COVID-19 drug and vaccine projects • Source: Shutterstock

Progress is being made on several fronts in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, including the expedited approval of a trial of a potential new treatment from biotech firm Synairgen, a new £10m fund for repurposed therapeutics, and the setting up of a COVID-19 manufacturing consortium involving Oxford University and member companies of the UK BioIndustry Association.

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