Friday, October 19, 2012

Live in the RTP area? Want to see the old Burroughs-Wellcome site?

Looks like the now-GSK, then-Burroughs Wellcome building (what an odd shaped building!) is open for tours tomorrow only. (Looks like 10 bucks) Sounds interesting -- other people's old labs are always more interesting than your own.

I wonder what drugs were discovered in the building? 
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 19, 2012 at 9:22 AM

    They played a large part in the discovery of AZT.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 19, 2012 at 4:44 PM

    I'm an intern at GSK in RTP...why is there no word of this around the labs?

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  3. David KrollOctober 19, 2012 at 9:30 PM

    Part of the reason may be that this is one of three buildings that GSK sold to United Therapeutics a few months ago. There was a short story about the tours in the Raleigh News & Observer a couple of weeks ago.

    Good news is that many tickets are left and will only go up to $15 on the day of the tour.

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