British government plans to announce increased investment in life sciences industry to win support from pharmaceutical groups

[British government plans to announce increased investment in life sciences industry to win support from pharmaceutical groups] May 25-according to the Financial Times, the British government is trying to invest in mining health data and increasing local production of vaccines and drugs to appease the disgruntled life science industry. Ministers are expected to announce more than £150 million in funding for the UK Biological sample Bank (UK Biobank), a groundbreaking genomics project, on Friday local time, quadrupling its research capacity and boosting scientists' and drugmakers' understanding of human biology.