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355:, Bingham charged taxpayers £670,000 for a team of eight full-time boutique consultants from London PR agency Admiral Associates. Dame Kate's account of the risks, criticism and political interference she faced are discussed in her book The Long Shot which was published in October 2022 with all proceeds going to the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE). In this she detailed the need for a specialist health communications capability to launch a national Vaccines Registry which was a core part of the vaccine procurement and development strategy and that this was contracted by the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy. 553: 305:
As of January 2021 Bingham is listed as being a director of the following active companies: Mestag Therapeutics Ltd; Cybele Therapeutics Ltd; Bicycle tx Ltd; Bicycle Therapeutics plc; Sitryx Therapeutics Ltd; Pulmocide Ltd; Autifony Therapeutics Ltd; Bicycle RD Ltd; SV Health Investors Ltd (whose
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Bingham has expressed views on how the UK covid vaccination programme could have been better run, and on how UK potential in life sciences could be improved. She published her account of the seven months she spent chairing the Vaccine Taskforce in her book
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has been praised by scientists and international media, particularly for securing 350 million doses of six vaccines and setting up infrastructure for clinical trials, manufacturing and distribution.
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later the same year. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and holds honorary fellowships from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and the British Pharmacological Society
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for "services to the procurement, manufacture and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines", Bingham was also admitted to the
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politician and a member of Parliament since 2010, who held various ministerial posts from 2016 to 2023.
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subsidiaries include the Dementia Discovery Fund); and SV Health Managers LLP.
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Bingham was born in London, the only daughter of the barrister and judge
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firm, SV Health Investors. In 2020, Bingham chaired the government's
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SV Health Investors). She became a managing partner specializing in
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in 1992; the couple have two sons and a daughter. Norman is a
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Bolzen, Stefanie; Guerrera, Antonello (6 February 2021).
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in the UK and its global distribution. In this temporary
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In 2016 Bingham received a Honorary Doctorate from the
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Honorary Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
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Landler, Mark; Mueller, Benjamin (29 January 2021).
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According to leaked documents seen by 254:Bingham then pursued further studies at 1249: 1211: 1192: 1066: 1056:(Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B8. 936: 885: 624: 622: 620: 596: 570: 521: 201:COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom 1301: 949: 680: 564: 459: 315:Advanced Research and Invention Agency 1379:Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society 1231:Sylvester, Rachel (15 October 2022). 1154:. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. 1015: 900:from the original on 15 November 2020 828: 826: 727: 725: 689: 534:from the original on 13 November 2020 365: 309:She also serves on the boards of the 266:. She has an honorary doctorate from 220: 150: 1278:"Jesse Norman: Parliamentary career" 1120: 1103: 1028:from the original on 4 February 2021 886:Pogrund, Gabriel (7 November 2020). 859:Merrifield, Ryan (14 October 2020). 799:"Boris Johnson's profligacy problem" 617: 517: 515: 513: 1097: 937:Kuchler, Hannah (18 October 2022). 662:from the original on 28 August 2020 522:Cookson, Clive (13 November 2020). 13: 1168:. British Pharmacological Society. 823: 733:"Kate Bingham, Management Partner" 722: 571:Tominey, Camilla (19 March 2021). 449:. The Academy of Medical Sciences. 325:In May 2020 Bingham was appointed 14: 1405: 1193:Bingham, Kate (24 January 2023). 811:from the original on 13 July 2021 787:(Press release). 26 January 2023. 710:from the original on 17 July 2019 510: 187:. She is a managing partner at a 1250:Merrick, Jane (7 October 2012). 597:Johnson, Rachel (23 June 2001). 413: 168:Dame Catherine Elizabeth Bingham 1319:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 1270: 1224: 1205: 1186: 1172: 1158: 1141: 1086: 1067:Malnick, Edward (5 June 2021). 1060: 1040: 1016:Balls, Katy (6 February 2021). 1009: 975: 930: 912: 879: 791: 777: 751: 674: 126: 1369:Harvard Business School alumni 1212:Bingham, Kate (22 June 2023). 644: 546: 453: 1: 1166:"Honorary Fellows' Directory" 1149:"Annual General Meeting 2021" 1093:Lord Mayor Russell on Twitter 681:Rathod, Nikita (4 May 2022). 554:"Objectives of the Taskforce" 491:"Catherine Elizabeth BINGHAM" 460:Mosley, Charles, ed. 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Index

The Honourable
DBE
HonFRS
HonFREng
London
University of Oxford
MA
Harvard University
MBA
Jesse Norman
Lord Bingham of Cornhill
née
Loxley
DBE
HonFRS
HonFREng
venture capitalist
venture capital
Vaccine Taskforce
vaccines
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
Tom Bingham
Lord Bingham of Cornhill
née
Loxley
St Paul's Girls' School
University of Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
first-class
MA

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