Professor Sarah Gilbert and Professor Adrian Hill stand to make millions from jab
Scientists heralded ray of hope at the end of a very challenging year
Error in trials led to some volunteers receiving a half dose and full dose regime
This was 90 per cent effective, compared to a 62 per cent as two full doses
Oxford University could make millions after taking six per cent of profits
And two professors could also become millionaires after inventing the jab
In 1985 communist Hungary,
Katalin Kariko lost her job at University of Szeged’s Biological Research Centre, where she was researching her newfound interest in RNA. The biochemist secured a job at Temple University in the US, boarded a one-way flight with money stuffed in her two-year-old’s teddy bear to escape the communist rule that did not allow taking money abroad.
In the US, she continued her research in RNA and 40 years later today, it has made one of the few leading vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic possible.
In Sojitra village in the Indian state of Gujarat, four-year-old
Nita Patel’s father was diagnosed with Tuberculosis. The father advised Nita to become a doctor and find a cure to such a disease. Today, in Maryland, US, she is at the forefront of leading an all-women team developing a vaccine to control the pandemic.
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image captionProf Teresa Lambe, who designed the vaccine over a weekend
In the early hours of Saturday 11 January, Prof Teresa Lambe was woken up by the ping of her email. The information she had been waiting for had just arrived in her inbox: the genetic code for a new coronavirus, shared worldwide by scientists in China.
She got to work straight away, still in her pyjamas, and was glued to her laptop for the next 48 hours. My family didn t see me very much that weekend, but I think that set the tone for the rest of the year, she says.
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AstraZeneca and Oxford University is responsible for the UK s effort to develop a coronavirus jab. The research and development partnership has already born fruit, according to early data, which shows the jab is 70 to 90 percent effective. If the data holds at the higher end, it will put the Oxford jab in competition with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.