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Neil Woodford

Investment group renews calls for GSK to split

January 8, 2016
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing GSK, Neil Woodford, investment, restructure

Multi-million pound fund manager Neil Woodford has renewed his call for GSK to break up into separate business units, amid …

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AstraZeneca to acquire Takeda’s respiratory franchise

December 16, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development AstraZeneca, China, Takeda, investment, respiratory

AstraZeneca and Takeda have agreed a multi-million pound deal for AZ to acquire the Japanese firm’s core respiratory business, including …

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robotics

Investment in pharma manufacturing ‘key to driving UK economy’

December 1, 2015
Manufacturing and Production economy, investment, manufacturing, production, robotics

Investing an additional £1.2 billion in UK manufacturing processes to increase robotics and automation could add as much as £60.5bn …

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BMS

Bristol-Myers Squibb in new oncology collaboration

November 25, 2015
Research and Development Bristol-Myers Squibb, collaboration, immuno-oncology, investment, venture capital

Bristol-Myers Squibb and European healthcare fund Life Sciences Partners are forming a strategic collaboration to identify breakthrough technologies.  The companies …

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Public Health England

Public Health England and Imperial Innovations boost UK life sciences sector

July 14, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Imperial Innovations, Public Health England, R&D, investment, life sciences, spin-puts

The Government has signed-off on the transfer of Public Health England’s drug development and production arm into a state-owned biopharma …

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UK government spends £300 million on dementia

February 23, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cameron, England, NHS, dementia, investment, research

UK prime minister David Cameron has said the government is to invest more than £300m into dementia research and that …

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UK government to create four new ‘eHealth’ centres

August 9, 2012
Sales and Marketing MRC, NHS, data, eHealth, investment, patient records

A consortium of ten UK government and charity groups has invested £19 million to create a series of eHealth research …

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Can European biotech stay afloat?

June 1, 2009
Research and Development biotech, economic climate, funding, investment

For the European biotech industry, the last few years have seen sustained growth across several fronts – much-needed progress after …

Feature

Biotech in 2008

December 31, 2008
Research and Development Genentech, InClone, biotech, economy, investment

The credit crunch hits biotechBy October Europe's biotech sector was feeling severe effects from the credit crunch, with small and …

Feature

The NHS under-invests at its peril

February 1, 2008
NHS, healthcare, investment

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UK biotech comes to market

November 10, 2006
Research and Development biotech, investment

At last, the signals are getting stronger that the biotechnology industry is poised and ready to tackle the publicly quoted …

Feature

European biotech – surviving the storm

October 22, 2003
Research and Development Europe, biotech, investment

Flexibility and constant adjustment are necessary to survive one of the toughest times in the history of the industry.There have …

Feature

Are you making the most of your web investment?

October 21, 2003
Medical Communications digi pharma, investment, websites

Pharmaceutical companies have spent millions of pounds on websites since the mid-1990s. Although almost no one is prepared to admit …

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