2019 A Boom Year for UK Biotech, Despite Brexit Concerns
Although biotech financing in the UK took a hit last year in large part thanks to uncertainty around Brexit, 2019 was still the British industry’s third-best year on record. …
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Astex is the world leader in fragment based drug discovery – the most important advance in drug discovery chemistry in the last 20 years.
Our internal pipeline is currently focused on the discovery and development of products in the therapeutic areas of oncology and virology.
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The productivity of our discovery engine which has helped to deliver seven novel drug candidates into development – five of which are now in clinical trials with another two in preclinical development.
Multiple collaborations in various therapeutic areas with leading pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen Pharmaceutica and Novartis that collectively have headline potential deal value in excess of $1 billion for Astex.
World-class science that has been published in leading journals such as Nature, Science and the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, with some of our papers being among the most cited in their field.
Although biotech financing in the UK took a hit last year in large part thanks to uncertainty around Brexit, 2019 was still the British industry’s third-best year on record. …
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