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UK Pharma Chiefs To Helm Brexit Steering Committee

 
• By Eleanor Malone

Sir Andrew Witty and Pascal Soriot, CEOs of GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca, respectively, are to co-chair a new steering group along with George Freeman, the UK's life sciences minister. The group will address the challenges posed to the sector by the UK's decision to withdraw from the EU.

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A new UK EU Life Sciences Steering Group has been set up by the UK government and life sciences industries to work out how the UK can "seize the opportunity to define a new relationship with the EU" – in the words of the UK government – in the wake of the Brexit referendum decision.

The group has been established as a distinct work stream under an existing ministerial industry strategy group chaired by Health...

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