The pair founded Vaccitech as an Oxford University spinout in 2016.
Its signature technology, which uses a harmless version of a respiratory virus found in chimpanzees, is the cornerstone of the coronavirus jab being administered to millions of Britons.
Gilbert grew up in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Her father worked at a shoe factory and her mother was a teacher.
She studied biological sciences and did a PhD at Hull University before getting a job at Oxford in 1994.
The scientist – whose triplets took part in trials of the Oxford jab – never meant to become an expert in vaccines. I actually came to Oxford to work on a human genetics project, she said previously.
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The world poorest countries are at India s mercy for vaccines. It s unsustainable Achal Prabhala and Leena Menghaney © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP
As the UK’s vaccination programme was “knocked off course” due to a delay in receiving five million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from India, a far more chilling reality was unfolding: about a third of all humanity, living in the poorest countries, found out that they will get almost no coronavirus vaccines in the near future because of India’s urgent need to vaccinate its own massive population.
It’s somewhat rich for figures in Britain to accuse India of vaccine nationalism. That the UK, which has vaccinated nearly 50% of its adults with at least one dose, should demand vaccines from India, which has only vaccinated 3% of its people so far, is immoral. That the UK has already received several million doses from India, alongside other rich countries such as Saudi Arabia and Can