Need For Partnering Won’t Change But Shape Might - BioJapan

While industry participants at BioJapan expect big pharma to continue to seek external partnerships and acquisitions to bolster pipelines, the technology and countries involved in such alliances look set to change.

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The pharma industry’s traditional methods of discovering new medicines are becoming increasingly outdated and risky, as evidenced by the global fall in overall R&D productivity in recent years.

This at least was the view of some of the speakers at the BioJapan meeting in Yokohama last week.

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