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Oxford University of Oxford (Getty Images) In an upset to Big Pharma, the most promising coronavirus vaccine comes from the public sector The pharmaceutical industry is salivating over the prospect of a coronavirus vaccine. Oxford may beat them to it view in app MATTHEW ROZSA - KEITH A. SPENCER JULY 15, 2020 10:54PM (UTC) Hundreds of pharmaceutical companies have mobilized thousands of workers and millions of dollars to produce a coronavirus vaccine as fast as humanly possible, lured by the promise of tremendous revenues for a vaccine that much of the populace would get. Yet the most promising vaccine candidate — "months ahead" of the competition (as Bloomberg Businessweek's headline blared ) — comes from the public sector: specifically, the lab of researcher Sarah Gilbert of Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Gilbert is a professor of vaccinology at Oxford's Jenner Institute, and has already administered the vaccine candidate to her adult children (as well