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Interview: Setting The Course For Takeda’s R&D Future

 
• By Ian Haydock

Dr. Andrew Plump joined Takeda from Sanofi in 2015 as the Japanese company's chief medical and scientific officer. In his current position, based in the US, he leads the global R&D organization, which has seen much fundamental change over the past 18 months.

In the first of this two-part interview, conducted at Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.'s headquarters in Tokyo during one of his regular visits to Japan, Plump outlines the strategic thinking behind Takeda's recent R&D reorganization and its decision to focus on selected therapeutic areas.

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