Patrick Vallance

Patrick Vallance    (physician, scientist, pharmacologist, businessman)
Nationality	UK
Alma mater	St George's University of London
Founder of	UK Vaccine Task Force
Member of	Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
UK/Chief Scientific Adviser  In office March 2018 - Present  GlaxoSmithKline/Director In office 1 January 2017 - 31 March 2018  President of R & D In office 2012 - 2018 Employer GlaxoSmithKline  Director In office 1 September 2013 - 31 March 2018 Employer British Pharma Group  Genome Research Limited/Director In office 26 November 2010 - 8 December 2017 "?" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.  Head of drug discovery In office 2006 - ? Employer GlaxoSmithKline

Sir Patrick John Thompson Vallance FRS FMedSci FRCP is a UK physician who left his career in big pharma in March 2018 to become the UK/Chief Scientific Adviser.

Career

Big pharma.

Coronavirus pandemic

Full article: COVID-19/Lockdown

In mid March 2020 Vallance "defended the government’s approach to tackling the coronavirus, saying it could have the benefit of creating “herd immunity” across the population."

Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies

Full article: Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies

Vallance, as chair of Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, was one of very few members who was publicly named. He stated in a letter to the UK parliament in April 2020 that the decision not to disclose its membership was based on advice from the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.

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