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GSK And Brazil Target Sustainable Chemistry

by Rick Mullin
November 4, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 44

GlaxoSmithKline and the São Paulo Research Foundation will create a sustainable chemistry center in Brazil. The pair will each contribute $650,000 annually during a 10-year collaboration. “This will be an important enabler toward our goal of reducing the environmental impact of both the discovery and subsequent manufacturing of drugs,” says Rogerio Ribeiro, a GSK executive. The drugmaker is already involved in a sustainable chemistry partnership with the University of Nottingham, in England, and the two centers will work collaboratively.

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