Europe's top biotech expects delays from drugs watchdog's HQ move

Reuters

30 November 2017 - Europe’s biggest biotechnology company, Denmark’s Genmab, expects some delays to regional drug approvals as the EMA is uprooted from London to Amsterdam.

The drugs watchdog has to move by March 2019 as London will no longer be in the European Union once Britain leaves the bloc.

Genmab CEO Jan van de Winkel is braced for disruption, although the choice of the Amsterdam is arguably the least disruptive option, since four out of five members of the EMA’s staff have expressed a willingness to move to the Dutch city.

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