worked in the Pharmaceutical industry between 98 and 2007. The Guardian wrote article after article disparaging the pharmaceutical industry during that time. Influencing the New Labour thinkers.
Between 2000 and 2008 the industry was decimated. Everywhere I worked was closed and bulldozed.
Did the socialist classes care? No we were stealing from the NHS.
So it’ rich from them complaining about the state of the industry now.
I work for a company in the UK that produces automated systems for Biotech and Pharma companies. I really don’t recognise this picture at all. I have family working in new startups in Oxford too.
Certainly, there has been a contraction in the number of major Pharma sites in the UK, and there are ongoing reorganisations and relocations. AZ has absorbed Medimmune and is relocating to Cambridge, for instance.
The methods of conducting drug discovery have changed dramatically. The old idea was to hold compound libraries, solublise them, and throw thousands of them against a cell line and see what happened. It’s far more nuanced now. Most of the compound stores are scrapped. The industry has changed and evolved. It’s certainly not on it’s knees.
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worked in the Pharmaceutical industry between 98 and 2007. The Guardian wrote article after article disparaging the pharmaceutical industry during that time. Influencing the New Labour thinkers.
Between 2000 and 2008 the industry was decimated. Everywhere I worked was closed and bulldozed.
Did the socialist classes care? No we were stealing from the NHS.
So it’ rich from them complaining about the state of the industry now.
I work for a company in the UK that produces automated systems for Biotech and Pharma companies. I really don’t recognise this picture at all. I have family working in new startups in Oxford too.
Certainly, there has been a contraction in the number of major Pharma sites in the UK, and there are ongoing reorganisations and relocations. AZ has absorbed Medimmune and is relocating to Cambridge, for instance.
The methods of conducting drug discovery have changed dramatically. The old idea was to hold compound libraries, solublise them, and throw thousands of them against a cell line and see what happened. It’s far more nuanced now. Most of the compound stores are scrapped. The industry has changed and evolved. It’s certainly not on it’s knees.