Shire's Ornskov On Goals And Accomplishments One Year After Baxalta Merger

Shire's CEO says he sees scientific and technological advances as an opportunity to become the leading rare disease company. Ornskov also talked about the firm's debt-reduction and M&A strategy going forward.

Flemming Ornskov

Since taking the leadership of Dublin-based Shire PLC early in 2013, Flemming Ornskov has become one of the most visible and outspoken CEOs in the biopharmaceutical sector, boosting his firm as a leader, if not yet the leader, in the rare disease space, and accumulating a string of notable deals, not least last year's merger with Baxalta Inc.

A bit over one year after that transaction was finalized, Ornskov spoke at length with Scrip about his ambitions for Shire going forward, specifically in ophthalmology, hemophilia and hereditary angioedema; the challenges and opportunities in the rare disease space; how his company is paying down the debt from its spate of licensing and M&A

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