{"id":1977,"date":"2021-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/astrazeneca-vaccine-scientists-set-for-22m-payday-in-new-york-float\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:39:42","slug":"astrazeneca-vaccine-scientists-set-for-22m-payday-in-new-york-float","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/astrazeneca-vaccine-scientists-set-for-22m-payday-in-new-york-float\/","title":{"rendered":"AstraZeneca vaccine scientists set for \u00a322m payday in New York float"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Gilbert, Adrian Hill and Oxford University to get windfalls when Covid vaccine firm Vaccitech goes public<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus &ndash; latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 &pound;20m as the vaccine technology firm she co-founded prepares to float on the New York stock exchange.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/23\/coronavirus-scientists-developed-oxford-vaccine-at-breakneck-speed\">Gilbert<\/a>, who became a household name as a result of her work creating Oxford&rsquo;s Covid-19 vaccine, owns just over 5% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaccitech.co.uk\/\">Vaccitech<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/apr\/07\/astrazeneca-vaccine-scientists-set-for-22m-payday-in-new-york-float\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Gilbert, Adrian Hill and Oxford University to get windfalls when Covid vaccine firm Vaccitech goes public Coronavirus &ndash; latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage 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 &pound;20m as the vaccine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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