The billionaire Indian family behind the world’s largest vaccine producer — Serum Institute of India (SII) — is donating upwards of $60 million to Oxford University to fund its new research center, which will be home to the scientists that developed the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.
Oxford University announced the donation on Wednesday and said that the university’s Old Road campus will be named the Poonawalla Vaccines Research building for the Poonawalla family following a donation of $66.2 million.
