Singapore recruits to attract biotech R&D

17 July 2000

Glaxo SmithKline chairman Sir Richard Sykes has joined an internationaladvisory council to Singapore's Economic Development Board, as it moves to make the island a center for biotechnology. The panel will hold its first meeting in September, reports the Straits Times Weekly. The EDB also has S$1 billion ($572 million) funding to attract private-sector R&D, plus S$60 million to launch the Singapore Genomics Programme.

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