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Drug companies call on EU to stem ‘haemorrhaging’ of R&D

Industry wants intervention to halt drift of R&D to US and China

European pharmaceutical companies are looking to the upcoming EU industrial strategy to reverse a multi-decade trend of biomedical R&D growing faster among the continent’s rivals, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations has said.

Between 1990 and 2017, investment in pharmaceutical R&D in Europe increased over fourfold, but in the US it grew by a factor of eight, according to an Efpia survey.

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