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Exhibit 23.1
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Consent of KPMG LLP
The Board of Directors
MCR Holdings, Inc.:
The audits referred to in our report dated February 3, 2000, included the
related financial statement schedules as of December 31, 1999, and for each of
the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 1999, included in the
registration statement on Form S-1 filed by MediChem Life Sciences, Inc. These
financial statement schedules are the responsibility of the Company's
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial
statement schedules based on our audits. In our opinion, such financial
statement schedules, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated
financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly in all material respects
the information set forth therein.
We consent to the use of our reports herein and to the reference to our firm
under the headings "Selected Financial Data" and "Experts" in the prospectus.
/s/ KPMG LLP
Chicago, Illinois
October 2, 2000
