GSK to cut jobs amid £1.9bn cost-cutting plan and bid for faster drug development

Pharmaceuticals company is investing £400m in UK life sciences and moving scientists to new Cambridge R&D site Business live – latest updates The British drugmaker GSK is to announce sweeping job cuts as part of a £1.9bn cost-cutting programme to pay for a £400m investment in UK life sciences over the next three years, including in a new research and development centre in Cambridge, as it looks to develop drugs more quickly under its new chief executive. The pharmaceuticals company announced on Tuesday it will move more than 1,000 of its scientists to its new site on the Cambridge biomedic