Pandemic Perspectives: R&D Lessons Learned From The COVID Year

A Biotech Roundtable, Part 1

 
• By Mary Jo Laffler

The ways companies found to move forward during the challenging year also offer opportunities for industry to improve. During a roundtable discussion with Scrip, execs from Athira, Cartesian, Cyclacel, Tonix and VOZ Advisors weighed in on the adaptations they made and what changes they’ll stick with. 

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Part 1 of a roundtable discussion on the lasting impact of the pandemic
Pandemic Perspectives

One year on from the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020, editors across Informa Pharma Intelligence publications are taking a closer look at its impact and possible lasting implications for the biopharma and medtech industries.

While the pandemic presented many obstacles to doing business as usual, the biopharmaceutical industry managed to keep going – finding ways to accelerate discovery, development and production to provide therapeutic and prophylactic solutions to COVID-19, and also finding ways to carry on with its regular work.

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