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AstraZeneca plc had a busy March, announcing five new public-private partnerships and the launch of its Open Innovation website to list additional partnership opportunities (see "Selected public-private partnerships for March 2014").

One of the public-private partnerships (PPPs) was a five-year alliance with the U.K.'s Medical Research Council (MRC) to give academic researchers access to more than two million of the pharma's molecules...