Dame Kate Bingham DBE was interviewed recently for NMITE where she talked about her experience chairing the Vaccine Task Force (VTF); the need for more women in engineering; the appeal of Herefordshire and the impact she thinks NMITE will achieve in the future.
Describing leading the VTF as “manic but great fun” and a “heroic and astonishing collaboration between industry, academia, governments, regulators, scientists and manufacturing”, Kate explains that her team set a record in terms of time taken from the date the original virus or pathogenic agent was identified to the point at which a vaccine was approved.
The key parallel that Kate describes between running the VTF and NMITE’s impact locally is partnership.
“NMITE will be working with local and national businesses to solve real-world problems and to do so quickly. And the sooner we can come up with game-changing new ideas and products, the sooner we’re going to be able to start limiting the damage that we’re doing to the earth.”
To view the interview with Kate Bingham, please visit: https://nmite.ac.uk/blog/2021/07/nmite-dame-kate-bingham-dbe