As it faces up to the sales decline of former flagship drug Rebif (interferon beta-1a), Merck KGAA is banking on new multiple sclerosis therapies to help it come through 2018 which, according to CEO Stefan Oschmann, will be a year of transition.
Speaking at the German group's annual press conference in Darmstadt on March 8, he described 2017 as "a year of...