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26 Oct 2010

UK initiatives to speed up delivery of medicines to patients

UK Science Minister David Willetts and Health Minister Lord Howe have launched an initiative to boost partnership between academics, clinicians and the life sciences industry.

UK Science Minister David Willetts and Health Minister Lord Howe have launched an initiative to boost partnership between academics, clinicians and the life sciences industry to deliver medicines faster to UK patients and to secure the UK’s position as the global partner of choice for research and development collaboration.

The Therapeutic Capability Clusters programme will develop three-way partnerships between the life sciences industry, clinicians and academics.

Collaborations will involve the best researchers in the NHS and academia working with industry researchers on promising new drugs and interventions. Together they will develop the best approaches to run experimental medicine studies and find novel ways to treating or diagnosing a range of inflammatory diseases.

In the first phase of this programme, the first two clusters in inflammatory respiratory disease (such as asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)) and in joint and related i

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