{"id":715326,"date":"2026-07-28T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715326\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:20:08","slug":"pharma-giant-gsk-quits-stevenage-for-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/715326\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharma giant GSK quits Stevenage for Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tony Wood, chief scientific officer at GSK, said: &#8220;Cambridge has built one of the world&#8217;s best life sciences ecosystems, with leading universities, hospitals and biotech companies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The campus provides exceptional opportunities for collaboration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With our existing connections and experience, we see this move as a catalyst for faster, bolder medicines discovery by accelerating the science that matters most for GSK&#8217;s next wave of medicines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-57861684#:~:text=The%20plan%20involves%20selling%20off,into%20cell%20and%20gene%20therapy.\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GSK announced plans to expand their Stevenage site<\/a>, with Wood claiming: &#8220;Our goal is for Stevenage to emerge as a top destination for medical and scientific research by the end of the decade.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, it seems the draw of Cambridge is too strong. Bolstered by the newly opened Cambridge South Station, with direct services to Stevenage, the company says it hopes &#8220;most of its staff will move with them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site in Cambridge will be part of GSK&#8217;s wider UK network of collaboration with leading academic institutions and pioneering scientific organisations, including the University of Oxford, King&#8217;s College London, Imperial College, the University of Manchester, Wellcome and the Crick Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Wood, chief scientific officer at GSK, said: &#8220;Cambridge has built one of the world&#8217;s best life sciences&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}