Research that accounts for what it consumes
The environmental cost of pharmaceutical development is real: energy, single-use materials, laboratory waste. We would rather measure it than ignore it.
Our commitment
Biotech research consumes: instruments running continuously, cold chains, single-use plastic that is hard to replace.
We are not interested in stating generic intentions. The commitment we make is to measure the real consumption of our processes and reduce it wherever that is technically possible without compromising the quality of the scientific data. It is a constraint we accept from the outset: where saving and integrity of the result conflict, the result wins.
Laboratory practice
The choices that matter are daily ones.
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how waste is handled
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where energy comes from
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which criteria guide supplier selection
These decisions rarely make it into an announcement, because each one taken alone counts for little. Added up across years of laboratory work, they are the largest part of the footprint of a company like ours.