UK charity-industry collaboration on respiratory diseases research

1 September 2016

A charity-industry collaboration in the UK has launched an initiative to find new epigenetic drug treatments to improve the lives of people affected by respiratory diseases.

The respiratory collaboration brings together three charities, namely Asthma UK, the British Lung Foundation and MRC Technology – an independent life science medical research body – with Anglo-Swedish pharma major AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN).

Together they will investigate the link between epigenetics, changes in the expression of genes which could be attributed to lifestyle and other external factors affecting the body, and respiratory disease.

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