Both were withdrawn in 2007 as passenger numbers had fallen and AstraZeneca withdrew funding.
The parish includes the crossroads of Monk's Heath, where the A34 crosses the A537, and the AstraZeneca research laboratories at Alderley Park.
The discovery of the commercial viability of this process (by a Saxmundham bone merchant, Edward Packard) led to what has been dubbed "the Suffolk Gold Rush", and local fortunes were made (Packard established what was to become the fertiliser company Fisons, now part of AstraZeneca).
Past this interchange, the road heads into Fairfax and passes between AstraZeneca's North American headquarters to the west and suburban homes and businesses to the east.
Major nearby employers include the North American headquarters for AstraZeneca, the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, and the DuPont Experimental Station.
On 10 September 2001, it started its own regional services from Gothenburg, much of which correspond to the needs of large companies based in Gothenburg, most notably Volvo Cars with its links to Birmingham (Jaguar Cars), Volvo Trucks with links to Lyon (Renault Trucks) and AstraZeneca with links to Manchester Airport.
Thomas A. Scully, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also criticized AstraZeneca for their aggressive marketing of Nexium.
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Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, spoke at Harvard Medical School to a German magazine on August 16, 2007, and said that AstraZeneca's scientists deceptively doctored their comparative studies such that the difference from omeprazole would look larger, providing a marketing advantage.
With this, he disclosed honoraria, consulting fees, research grant support from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Upjohn Pharmacia, Novartis, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Pfizer, Hoechst AG, and AstraZeneca.
He was more recently awarded the Jonas Salk Award (1999) in honor of Dr. Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine, the AstraZeneca/ASC/RxDx Award (2001) and the CSCC Award (2001) for his seminal work in the field of Alzheimer’s disease.
Since then Lewent has also been responsible for Merck's collaboration with Johnson & Johnson in a consumer pharmaceuticals joint venture, for the setting up of the animal health company Merial (a joint venture with the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis), and for Merck's ongoing relationships with AstraZeneca and DuPont.
2008 - Acquisition of: Lyophilisation facility in Switzerland, A capsule production facility in Fontaine-lès-Dijon, France, The majority share of an AstraZeneca biotech laboratory in Södertälje, Sweden.
Silence Therapeutics has multiple partnerships with other pharmaceutical companies, such as AstraZeneca, Pfizer/Quark Pharma and Dainippon Sumitomo.