HRH The Duke of Gloucester Visits University of Oxford’s Cutting-Edge Vaccine Facilities

Published on July 24, 2025

His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester visited the University of Oxford on Thursday to tour two of its leading medical research centres: the Clinical BioManufacturing Facility and the laboratories of the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG) and Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI), located on the University’s Old Road Campus.
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