The biopharma industry has high ambitions to improve therapies for patients across many disease categories, drawing on a wealth of technological advances that have been emerging and maturing in recent years. Even after the mass mobilization against COVID-19, it is clear from the responses of the executives we surveyed that the sector has retained significant firepower to deploy across the disease spectrum.
Scrip Asks…What Does 2021 Hold For Biopharma? Part 4: Technology And Disease
Predictions From The Product Development Front Line
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