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Professor Barry Potter, Professor of Medicinal & Biological Chemistry at the University of Bath, and the late Professor Michael Reed, Professor of Steroid Biochemistry at Imperial College, London, have won the prestigious 2009 GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) International Achievement Award.

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