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Kate Bing­ham Crick A top biotech ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist has been named to chair a UK gov­ern­ment task­force on de­vel­op­ing and eq­ui­tably dis­trib­ut­ing a vac­cine. Kate Bing­ham, man­ag­ing part­ner of SV Health Ven­tures, will lead the task­force, help­ing co­or­di­nate ef­forts across in­dus­try, acad­e­mia and gov­ern­ment. Those ef­forts are now backed by 250 mil­lion (£303 mil­lion) in…

Pandemic and planning — A quick roundup of some of the developments of the past week. John Timmer - May 11, 2020 5:27 pm UTC Enlarge / Social distancing in a Czech movie theater.Gabriel Kuchta / Getty Images During the pandemic, Ars has done its best to keep you on top of the most important…

Covid-19 has vault­ed a Har­vard pro­fes­sor in­to the glob­al ranks of bil­lion­aires. Tim­o­thy Springer, the soft-spo­ken, gar­den-tend­ing, Chi­nese rock-col­lect­ing im­mu­nol­o­gist made some head­lines a cou­ple years ago when it got out that he was the 4th largest share­hold­er in Mod­er­na, a com­pa­ny that was launch­ing the largest IPO in biotech his­to­ry. Springer, who made his…