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Big Pharma, UK Universities Launch 'Unique' Early Drug Development Fund

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

AstraZeneca plc, GlaxoSmithKline plc and Johnson & Johnson are investing £30m between them into a new fund aimed at advancing academic therapeutic research from three leading universities.

AstraZeneca plc, GlaxoSmithKline plc and Johnson & Johnson are investing £30m between them into a new fund aimed at advancing academic therapeutic research from three leading universities.

The new Apollo Therapeutics Fund will support academic science from Imperial College London, University College London and the University of...

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