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April 1, 2021

The UK startup developing a variant-proof coronavirus vaccine

London-based Baseimmune raises £685k to start testing the concept.


Maija Palmer

4 min read

Photo by Ivan Diaz on Unsplash

As ambitions go, it’s a big one. Josh Blight, cofounder and chief scientific officer of Baseimmune, wants to not just find a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that been sweeping through the world since last spring, but a vaccine that would give us immunity against all future coronaviruses.

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