“We've got geopolitical pressures, macro-economic pressures, interest rates, inflation…” Bradley Hardiman, senior director of business development at Astellas Venture Management, listed the challenges for biopharma going into 2024. “But as an industry, we've always had something that challenges us, and we've always overcome it,” he told In Vivo on the sidelines of the recent BIO-Europe conference in Munich, Germany.
Astellas’s Venture Arm Is Focused On Flexibility But Avoiding Hype
VC Playbook: Bradley Hardiman, senior director of business development at Astellas Venture Management, discusses setting a CVC strategy when the biopharma market is in a “state of flux.”
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