The Revival of a Compound Management Facility

The decommissioning of the MSD Newhouse Research Site (Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK) in 2010 was a bitter blow to both the employees there and the Lanarkshire region. In the same year the pharmaceutical industry downsized by 50,000 jobs, and this extensive site of world-class research, focussing on the fields of anaesthesia and psychiatry, added a further 250 to this list. However, within some of the former employees there was hope.