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Peter Day talks with GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty on the way the company is trying to modernise the search for drug discovery and discusses the way ahead for big pharma.

Britain's pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of pounds in a search for new drugs and treatments which has not delivered the breakthroughs that were promised when the money was spent. It is a problem for the whole global industry, too. Peter Day talks to GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty about the ways he is changing the company's quest for drug discovery and discusses the way ahead for big pharma.
Producer : Sandra Kanthal.

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Sun 12 Dec 2010 21:30
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