Collaboration launches major drug discovery initiatives at UK universities

22 February 2017

Apollo Therapeutics, a collaborative venture between three world-leading UK universities and three global pharmaceutical companies, has launched its first major drug discovery initiatives.

Apollo Therapeutics was established in January 2016 by Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN), British firm GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) and the US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ).

The companies collaborate with Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Cambridge to support the translation of medical science into innovative new drug discovery programmes and potential new medicines for a broad range of diseases.

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