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...Scientific collaboration between Sweden and the UK is already close, anchored in pharmaceuticals by AstraZeneca, the drug company created by the 1999 merger of Britain’s Zeneca with Sweden’s Astra....
...Part of ICI lives on, being the UK pharmaceutical firm Zeneca which was demerged from ICI in 1993 with Astra (Swedish) Zeneca coming together in 1999....
...It was originally occupied by ICI, one of the giants of the UK’s postwar industrial landscape, whose bioscience business Zeneca demerged in 1993, joining forces with Sweden’s Astra six years later....
...Zeneca eventually combined with Astra of Sweden to form the modern-day AstraZeneca....
...Although Keytruda and rival medicines from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Astra Zeneca seem to work remarkably well in between 20 and 30 per cent of patients, the majority do not respond....
...Podcast: FT Money editor Claer Barrett on investing in pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca...
...FT Money Show presenter Claer Barrett and guests on why it might be a good time to invest in pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca, the advantages of investing in Aim shares and the phenomenon of restart parties...
...Joe Walters, senior fund manager at Royal London Asset Management, acknowledged there was “a lot going on underneath the bonnet at Zeneca”, given the strength of the wider pipeline....
...Lilly and Astra Zeneca are partnering on one example codenamed AZD3293. Another Lilly inhibitor, though, has already been abandoned because of liver toxicity....
...The sale of Meda risks a further hollowing out of Sweden’s pharmaceuticals sector, which in the past two decades has seen Pharmacia bought by Pfizer of the US and Astra merged with Zeneca of the UK....
...Together, the investments signal a renewal of its commitment to the Scandinavian country 16 years after the merger of Sweden’s Astra with Zeneca of the UK....
...The sale of Meda risks a further hollowing out of Sweden’s pharmaceuticals sector, which in recent decades has seen Pharmacia bought by Pfizer of the US and Astra merged with Zeneca of the UK....
...Astra, the Wallenbergs’ drugmaker, merged with Zeneca, the pharmaceuticals assets of UK chemicals group ICI and set up its headquarters in Britain....
...“When the original Zeneca was demerged from ICI in 1993 it was worth £6 and over 20 years this has risen to over £40....
...Two years later the pharmaceutical business was spun off as Zeneca....
...Sweden lost the headquarters to both its big drugmakers around the turn of the century with Astra being merged with Zeneca, the spun-out pharmaceutical arms of ICI in the UK, while Pharmacia was sold first...
...Created through a combination of Astra of Sweden and Zeneca of the UK in 1999, the company was more badly hit than most by the drop in sales and innovation that has bedevilled big pharma over recent years...
...Another board member strongly opposed to the deal was Marcus Wallenberg, the Swedish industrialist whose family ties to the company goes back to the 1920s and the founding of Astra, which merged with Zeneca...
...Sweden’s Astra merged with Zeneca of the UK 15 years ago to create the drugmaker that is now based and listed in Britain....
...AstraZeneca was itself a product of the last big round of industry consolidation when Astra of Sweden merged with Zeneca of the UK in 1999....
...Zeneca, the pharmaceutical company, and John Griffiths of PA Consulting Group....
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...The partnership originally dates to a joint venture in 1982 between Merck and Astra, the Swedish part of the group ahead of its merger with Zeneca of the UK....
...Mr Russell, who worked on the merger with Astra in 1999 to create the company, joined Shire as CFO before taking the top slot from Matt Emmens in 2008....
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