Sarah Gilbert, Adrian Hill and Oxford University to get windfalls when Covid vaccine firm Vaccitech goes public
Prof Sarah Gilbert, the Oxford University scientist who lead the team that created the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, is set for a payday of more than £20m as the vaccine technology firm she co-founded prepares to float on the New York stock exchange.
Gilbert, who became a household name as a result of her work creating Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine, owns just over 5% of Vaccitech, a Oxford University spin-out company that owns the biotechnology behind the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and others for Mers, hepatitis B, the virus that causes shingles, and a range of cancers.
