Pfizer Signs Academic Collaboration Pact With Peking University To Support Translational R&D Center In Shenzhen

SHANGHAI - After unveiling a plan to build a research and development center in Wuhan last week, Pfizer announced it inked an agreement with Peking University Dec. 1 to fund the university's research projects and to build a translational research and drug discovery center in PKU's Graduate School in Shenzhen, a Chinese city that borders the former British enclave of Hong Kong

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