Pharmaceutical Company
Pharmaceutical Company: Medicines, vaccines and the laboratory behind them. A pharmaceutical firm sells proprietary medicines over the counter and, more and…
Medicines, vaccines and the laboratory behind them. Find a medicine, prove it works, and make it by the million.
A pharmaceutical firm sells proprietary medicines over the counter and, more and more, prescription drugs to doctors and later to the NHS. The laboratory is the gamble: most research leads nowhere and one success pays for years of it. Vaccines and sera need a licence to manufacture, and after thalidomide every new medicine must be shown to be safe before it is sold.
- Setup costs
- £1,100,000 to £16,500,000
- Competition
- Medium
- Category
- Heavy Industry & Energy
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