Pfizer Inc. CEO Albert Bourla is one year into the job and tried to impress upon J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference attendees at a fireside chat in the Grand Ballroom at San Francisco's Westin St. Francis how much the company's innovative R&D business has changed. Pfizer is set to update investors on 2019 financials and 2020 forecasts on 28 January, but Bourla said there is a lot of upside in the company's longer-range pipeline that Wall Street analyst forecasts aren't taking into account.
For example, in vaccines he said that while there are some forecasts for Pfizer's 20-valent pneumococcal vaccine, analysts aren't accounting for a Clostridium difficile vaccine in Phase III that will read out later in 2020, a meningococcal vaccine
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