Merck KGaA Offering Broad Expertise To Nurture China Start-Ups
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Merck, the German health care and life sciences group, is tapping into China’s burgeoning biotech start-up community through a new grant program under which it is offering financial aid and broad technology support and hopes to help advance novel life-saving therapeutics.
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