Drug manufacturing and supply chains may be more obvious targets for slashing emissions, but so too is R&D. Researchers should look to greater collaboration, adaptive trials and slashing “low value research,” among other things, to reach net zero targets, according to speakers at the 3 September Westminster Health Forum policy conference entitled “Next steps for decarbonization in the UK life sciences sector.”
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R&D should also be a target for decarbonizing the life sciences sector.
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