Another foray into neglected diseases as GlaxoSmithKline extends partnership with Brazil's Fiocruz
UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) and the Brazil-based Oswald Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) have announced a new collaboration to research and develop innovative medicines to treat diseases which disproportionately affect people living in the world’s poorest countries.
Last year, the two parties established a new R&D collaboration program at Fiocruz to develop a vaccine for dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that globally places 2.5 billion people at risk of infection (The Pharma Letter August 18, 2009). More recently, GSK outlined its strategy for research on rare diseases, as well as signing additional collaborations (TPL October 19).
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