Yeadon received his PhD under Ian Kitchen at the
University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. His thesis was on the respiratory system of rats.[10]
Yeadon worked with Salvador Moncada at the
Wellcome Research Laboratories, focusing on airway hyper-responsiveness and the effects of pollutants such as
Ozone and
Nitrogen oxide, as well as working on drug discovery of
5-LO and
COX.[11]
He served as vice-president of
Pfizer's allergy and respiratory research unit in
Sandwich, Kent,[12][7][13] where he oversaw the development of drugs for
asthma and
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).[14]
During his work at Pfizer, Yeadon was responsible for the selection of targets and the progression of new molecules into human trials. His unit developed inhaled and oral
NCEs that showed positive results in clinical trials for asthma,
allergic rhinitis and COPD.[15][verification needed]
Pfizer closed its Kent research facility in 2011. Yeadon, who had not worked with vaccines, then left Pfizer and with three colleagues founded the biotechnology company Ziarco,[7][12][16][17] for which he served as CEO and which was sold to
Novartis for $325 million in 2017.[7][18]
Yeadon has been interviewed by The Exposé, a website known for publishing COVID-19 misinformation.[38]
In an interview with American political strategist
Steve Bannon, Yeadon falsely asserted that children were "50 times more likely to be killed by the COVID vaccines than the virus itself", citing a high number of events following COVID-19 vaccination reported on the
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database.[26][39][4]
The US
Centers for Disease Control, which operates the database, cautions that such reports are not verified and do not prove that vaccines caused any given adverse event.[26][39]
Political activism
Yeadon founded the
Liberal Spring movement in the UK, with the goal of turning the
Liberal Democrats into a movement for "Covid-sceptic beliefs", according to The Times.[6][17]
He has contributed funding to Liberty Places, a group promising to build a community on the African archipelago of
Zanzibar for Europeans to escape COVID-19 lockdowns and
vaccine mandates.[1][17]
Interviewed on Bannon's War Room podcast, Yeadon indicated he would also be providing support for “U.S. politicians and influencers".[17]
Publications
Yeadon, Michael; Diamant, Zuzana (2000). New and exploratory therapeutic agents for asthma. New York: Marcel Dekker.
ISBN0-585-25139-8.
OCLC45730917.
Notes
^In a November 2020 interview with talk show host
Julia Hartley-Brewer, Yeadon falsely stated that the pandemic was "fundamentally over in the UK".[21]
^Wodarg and Yeadon wrote, "There is no indication whether antibodies against spike proteins of SARS viruses would also act like anti-Syncytin-1 antibodies. However, if this were to be the case, this would then prevent the formation of a placenta which would result in vaccinated women essentially becoming infertile."[27] Multiple fact-checkers have debunked the latter claim.[36][37]
^Parker, Charlie (28 August 2021). "The new breed of antivaxers". The Times. London.
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