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Where is the drug discovery expertise happening in the UK?

Drug Discovery World

Despite the overall reduction in major pharma R&D centres in the UK, global pharma companies continue to engage with academic and biotech organisations here, particularly in hotspots such as the Golden Triangle, the Northwest, and Scotland, through the strong networks that have been developed between these organisations.

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Unlocking disease treatment with large-scale research

pharmaphorum

The importance of health data to the life science industry is growing just as rapidly as the technology enabling its capture is advancing. A few decades ago, gathering genetic data on the scale of the 100,000 Genomes Project would have been unthinkable – it was only in 2003 that the entire human genome was mapped.

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Open science, genomics, and the quiet revolution in our approach to pharma

Drug Discovery World

Bioinformatics and genetic sequencing are starting to be placed front and centre of public research programmes as scientists from around the world recognise the substantial benefits of knowledge sharing and resource pooling when it comes to genetic science.

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