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Profile: Katherine Bowdish, Sanofi’s Early Science Investment Scout

 
• By Lucie Ellis-Taitt

Katherine Bowdish, vice president of global R&D at Sanofi and leader of Sunrise, the French big pharma's early-stage investment arm, talks to Scrip about living vicariously through biotech companies whilst having the power and backing of a pharma major to advance important, innovative science.

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Riding the early science rollercoaster is not for the fainthearted • Source: Shutterstock

Katherine Bowdish, the founder of an immune-oncology company over a decade ago that was forced to shelve research due to lack of interest and buy-in from investors at the time, talks about Sanofi's early investment initiative, Sunrise. In the latest installment of Scrip's executive profile series, she highlights the importance of pharma collaboration with early science designed to accelerate not impede development.

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