PPD's Lee Babiss On Virtual R&D In China: An Interview With PharmAsia News (Part 1 Of 2)

Lee Babiss left Roche, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, for a contract research organization position in part because his days as president of drug research were filled less with driving research projects forward and more with containing his group's costs, a reflection of the current state of R&D productivity at major pharmaceutical firms.