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Prevention is the best medicine

Prevention is about innovating to change the course of disease

Prevention is the best medicine
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Ahead Together in  genetics/genomics/vaccines/medicines/innovation

We get ahead of disease together by preventing and treating it with innovation in vaccines and specialty medicines. Our R&D approach combines our scientific focus on the immune system - with the use of advanced technologies.

We are working to deliver a new generation of differentiated, needed vaccines and medicines in four core therapeutic areas where we have the strongest expertise, and where significant patient need remains: infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/immunology, and oncology.

Technology powers all aspects of our R&D. We use human genetics and functional genomics, along with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), to deeply understand the patient, human biology, and disease mechanisms. This is leading to real breakthroughs for tackling a range of conditions, such as liver disease, or transforming HIV treatment and prevention. 

We believe the powerful combination of science and technology holds the key to fundamentally transforming medical discovery for the better, making the R&D process more dynamic, improving success rates and shaping how even the most challenging diseases, like neurological conditions and cancer, can be both prevented and treated.

Discover our leading scientists

There’s never been a time when science and technology have formed such a powerful union as they do now. We’re able to identify drug discovery targets using genomics and AI/ML in a way that is unprecedented. We’re also able to use more approaches than ever before to design new vaccines and medicines to address the root cause of disease.

Tony Wood

Tony Wood

Chief Scientific Officer

  • Our R&D investment in 2023

    £6.2bn

  • Major business development deals in 2023

    6

  • Vaccines and medicines in the pipeline

    71

  • Phase I programmes started in 2023

    8

Ahead of disease together

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Therapeutic areas

​The four areas of human health we focus on to get ahead of disease are: infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/immunology, and oncology. 

Tony Wood

Our leading scientists

Meet the world-leading scientists who are uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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