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Five Big Picture R&D Questions For J&J’s Stoffels, Novartis’s Narasimhan

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

J&J’s chief scientific officer, Dr. Paul Stoffels, and Novartis’ global head of drug development and chief medical officer, Dr. Vasant Narasimhan, were both among the global industry attendees at the recent BioAsia 2017 meeting in Hyderabad. They shared with Scrip their big picture perspectives on a range of key talking points around R&D, including the cost conundrum and the next big things in the world of medicine.

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Johnson & Johnson‘s chief scientific officer, Dr. Paul Stoffels, and Novartis AG’s global head, drug development and chief medical officer, Dr. Vasant Narasimhan, were part of the star speaker line-up at the BioAsia 2017 meeting held recently in the charming city of Hyderabad, India.

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