Covid 19 vaccinations already taking place in York at Askham Bar ABOUT 150 people in York will get the chance to trial a new Covid vaccine in a first for the city. York is one of nine locations across the UK taking part in the global trial of a new Covid-19 vaccine. York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to work with the University of York and Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust to trial the new jab. The vaccine study will involve a total of 30,000 adult subjects globally, and locally about 150 people, aged between 18 and 40 who have not already had a vaccine for Covid-19, taking part in the trials.
Transforming the UK into a life sciences superpower
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock spoke at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) annual conference.
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29 April 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)
Thank you Richard, and I appreciate the opportunity to have this discussion. I’ve just got back from the Science Museum, where I’ve had my first jab.
And the Queen was right – it doesn’t hurt a bit.
I had Professor Van-Tam vaccinating me, which was a real honour. For me, having that in the Science Museum just underlined the significance of science and the life sciences. And having it from JVT, who has obviously played such an important role in this vaccine effort, it has been wonderful. And it really crystallised for me the job the life sciences have done over this past year, and, you know, how as an industry we moved with such extraordinary speed and helped to build the defences, in what e
Claudia Grossmann, PhD, is a Senior Program Officer with the Research Infrastructure team at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She provides oversight for initiatives designed to strengthen community-driven research, including within PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network.
Healthy adults can get a Covid jab in May - if they volunteer for vaccine study VOLUNTEERS from the North-East are being asked to sign up to the latest Covid-19 vaccine study to be rolled out across the UK. The National Institute for Health Research-supported Valneva Phase 2/3 study, will be run at North Tyneside General Hospital, in North Shields, and the Freeman Hospital, in Newcastle, and is open to healthy adults who have not had a previous Covid-19 vaccine. Across the UK 4,000 participants will be recruited and everyone involved in the study will receive two active vaccine doses, administered in a four week interval.
New Bristol covid vaccine trial in race against time to sign up younger people
It will be a way to get the jab early for those under 40
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Scientists in Bristol are in a race against time to find enough volunteers to trial a new, British coronavirus vaccine, before too many people have had one of the existing ones.