by Alison Ryan

Merial is now part of Boehringer-Ingelheim.

Boehringer Ingelheim is the first pharmaceutical company worldwide to join forces with Google in quantum computing. This involves the use of digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and data science.

Boehringer Ingelheim also partners with Lifebit Biotech to collect scalable clinico-genomic data from large external healthcare biobanks for research organizations and governments globally, like Genomics England and The Hong Kong Genome Project, for their stated purpose of human and animal scientific exploration.

Boehringer-Ingelheim’s Animal Health Division began in 1955 when they took over Pfizer’s veterinary program.

The Pirbright Institute is a publicly funded private company. Their major stakeholders are:
• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
• UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
• Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council (MRC) and other research funding agencies
• International funding and disease control agencies, such as OIE, WHO, the European Commission, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Industrial producers of veterinary vaccines and antivirals
• Farmers and livestock keepers

The Pirbright Institute is leading a new consortium working with Genomics UK on emerging mutations in SARS CoV 2.

Genomics UK covers genomic healthcare and research. Its programs include the 100,000 Genomes Project delivered by NHS England, Genomics England and UK Biobank.

The Genomics UK ecosystem has the logos of Freemasonry, showing hands As Above, hands So Below, on its webpages.

The Wellcome Trust announced that it was investing £27 million in a genome-sequencing hub for Genomics England.

Former PM Julia Gillard is the new Chairwoman for Wellcome’s board of governors appointed April 2021.

The UK says it has the unique benefit of the NHS. Their ability to link a whole lifetime of medical records with a person’s genome data on a large scale will help them to tease apart the complex relationship between our genes, and what happens in our lives and illness. Sounds like Big Brotherhood and emerging bio-factories.