Pharma bosses chair committee to stop Brexit breaking the UK's life sciences sector

11 July 2016
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The UK government has brought in pharma industry chiefs to co-chair a ministerial group aimed at ensuring Brexit does not damage the country’s life sciences sector.

Sir Andrew Witty and Pascal Soriot, the chief executives of GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) and AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN), the UK’s two largest pharma companies, are the co-chairmen of the 15-member group along with life sciences minister George Freeman.

The group held its first meeting last week as the UK starts considering the reality of Brexit, which a parliamentary committee had warned would hit the country’s life sciences sector hard before last month’s referendum.

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