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Building Bayer For The Next Decade And Navigating A Patent Cliff

Bayer's New Head Of Pharma Stefan Oelrich Discusses The Future Of The Company

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

As Bayer prepares for several of its key products to lose patent exclusivity in four to five years’ time, In Vivo caught up with the company’s new head of pharma, Stefan Oelrich, to hear more on his strategy for the future – especially his plans for drug R&D, collaboration and a pipeline built on external innovation.

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Stefan Oelrich, head of pharma at Bayer • Source: Bayer AG

In Leverkusen, Germany, following Bayer AG's full-year 2018 earnings presentation in February, In Vivo sat down with Stefan Oelrich to discuss his first impressions since taking on the head of pharma role last year, the company’s approach to collaboration and externalization of research, and what Bayer will look like midway through the 2020s when it will hit a major patent cliff.

Bayer has around 50 projects in clinical development, with key novel compounds coming forward in the next few years that...

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