Life science companies creating light at end of the Covid tunnel

Matt Moran, of BioPharmaChem Ireland, reviews an historic year in which scientists joined forces against the Covid virus

Eamon Judge of Eli Lilly, Kinsale, Co Cork, who led The Covid Alliance, a coalition over 40 companies, universities, institutes of technology and hospitals which helped the HSE develop the Lysis Buffer, a critical tool used to identify the Covid-19 virus in tests.
 

Now that we start to slowly and carefully emerge from the unprecedented effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic we can take time to look back and reflect a little and maybe look forward with increased optimism. 

BioPharmaChem Ireland (BPCI) and its members have remained fully operational throughout. Even before An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar made that fateful announcement from the steps of The Whitehouse in Washington DC biopharma companies were mobilising all their available resources to ensure that they could keep the supply of essential medicines and other critical chemicals available to the globe.