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UCB announced today that CEO Roch Doliveux has been appointed Chairman of the Governing Board of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a public-private partnership between the European Union and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). UCB has been involved in IMI since its initiation and Roch Doliveux joined the IMI Governing Board in May 2010.

IMI currently funds 30 projects with a combined budget of around €600 million and covering drug safety and efficacy, knowledge management, and education & training.

Roch Doliveux, CEO of UCB and member of the Board of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Association (EFPIA) says �The biopharmaceutical industry has reached an inflection point where public-private partnerships, bringing academic and industry knowledge together, are paving the way to better respond to new healthcare needs and bring safer, more efficacious and cost-effective treatments to patients. EFPIA considers IMI as a key instrument to implement the new business models which will ensure the sustainability of the pharmaceutical industry and increase the wellbeing of patients across Europe.’

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