At Astrazeneca, the revenge of French Pascal Soriot | EUROtoday

C ‘is a narrative that Pascal Soriot likes to inform the guests of his Discovery Center, the futuristic constructing, nicknamed “The disc”, which homes the headquarters of his enterprise, the Astrazeneca laboratory, south of Cambridge, England: “We are at 1 Francis Crick Avenue. I kept a lot by buying the land, because Francis Crick is one of the “inventors” of DNA. It was in a city pub, The Eagle, that he announced that he had found “the key of life” in 1953. “

To hear the one who directs the seventh international pharmaceutical firm and its 94,300 staff, this big glass, wooden and metal sauce, ideally positioned close to two hospitals, a laboratory of molecular biology winner of 14 Nobel prizes and Cambridge Institute Research, e …