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Britain’s Prince Charles to open new AstraZeneca research centre

by jcp November 23, 2021
November 23, 2021
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CAMBRIDGE, England (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince Charles will formally open a new 1 billion pound ($1.3 billion) AstraZeneca research and development (R&D) facility on Tuesday, as the company aims to fuel the growth of its drug pipeline.

AstraZeneca has supplied two billion doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, developed at Oxford University, and is also looking to bring a preventative antibody cocktail against COVID-19 to market.

But while the company is setting up a separate division for vaccine and antibody therapies in light of the coronavirus pandemic, it has also beefed up other areas of research

Earlier this year, AstraZeneca completed the $39 billion purchase of rare-disease specialist Alexion.

“Our new Discovery Centre in Cambridge… will allow us to break new boundaries in the understanding of disease biology, bring life-changing medicines to patients and power the next stage of our company’s growth,” Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said in a statement.

Prince Charles, son of Queen Elizabeth and heir to the throne, will take a walking tour of the centre and give a short address at the opening.

The plans for AstraZeneca’s new headquarters and large R&D campus in Cambridge were unveiled in 2013, but its costs and timeframe have exceeded the initial estimate of 330 million pounds and an aimed completion date of 2016.

AstraZeneca, which has a large portfolio of treatments for diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes, said the centre would support research into specialised medicines and next-generation therapeutics, including gene-editing and cell therapies.

“We will have advances that could come to the clinic in the next three, four years, that can lead to really effective new drugs in various aspects of treating cancer,” Dr Susan Galbraith, AstraZeneca’s Executive Vice President, Oncology Research & Development, told Reuters in an interview.

“I’m very optimistic about the fact that we can make a big difference to this disease in the coming decade”

($1 = 0.7454 pounds)

(Reporting by Alistair SmoutAditional reporting by Ludwig Burger in FrankfurtEditing by Mark Potter and Louise Heavens)

 

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