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The UK’s unique offering as a lifesciences research hub helped convince US biotech Novavax to develop its COVID-19 jab there, according to the head of the country’s Vaccines Taskforce. . It is really important and we have seen a lot of pharmacompanies interested in the UK.
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We’ve got so many great lifescience assets in the UK, but there are still some gaps – manufacturing capacity being one of them.”. “We We had companies collaborating to develop laboratories. We had companies sourcing consumables for testing machines. The road to a vaccine. A collaborative future.
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