Drug companies pay for exclusive access to UK genetic data September 12, 2019 – Posted in: Open Orphan (ORPH)

Dive Brief: Four of the world’s largest drug companies have agreed to pay around $120 million for exclusive access to genetic data on hundreds of thousands of people. Amgen, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Johnson & Johnson will each have nine months to pour over the first wave of genomic data coming out of UK Biobank before the global research community gets a chance to look at it. That initial wave will be available at the end…

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