Roche To Reinvest Savings Into R&D And Keep Prices Low

R&D Productivity Gains Are Key

The Swiss major's pharma chief Bill Anderson tells Scrip that the goal for the firm over the next decade is to deliver twice as many medicines at a much lower cost to society.

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Bill Anderson, head of Roche Holding AG’s pharmaceuticals unit, has outlined the company's vision for the next decade to Scrip, looking at the Swiss major's plans to Roche aim to double R&D output by 2030, increase productivity and provide more benefits to patients at less cost to society.

Speaking after Roche's virtual Pharma Day presentations to analysts, which lasted four hours and consisted of 152 slides, Anderson said that since 2016 the company had moved away from the traditional ways of working at large organizations "where we made things more complex than they needed

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