UK to in­vest $345M to bol­ster life sci­ence re­search, man­u­fac­tur­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties

On the heels of in­vest­ing rough­ly $214 mil­lion last week to CEPI’s pan­dem­ic pre­pared­ness plan, the UK is piv­ot­ing — and us­ing $345 mil­lion to bol­ster re­search and man­u­fac­tur­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties in the coun­try.

The UK gov­ern­ment an­nounced the in­vest­ment ear­li­er this week, in­vest­ing up to $265 mil­lion in­to health re­search — led by the NHS — in­to di­ag­nos­tics and treat­ments through new plat­forms and clin­i­cal re­search ser­vices that em­pha­size pri­va­cy. This would en­able re­search to bet­ter ac­cess NHS da­ta, the UK said ear­li­er this week, mak­ing da­ta more se­cure­ly and quick­ly avail­able for re­search.

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