Evotec, Takeda Execs’ Big Picture Insights To Shape India’s R&D Push

Evotec's CEO and Takeda’s president of R&D provide insights around how India could shape its efforts to accelerate biopharma innovation. Backing the right technologies, fostering a culture to "stop losses" early on for projects that don't work and learning from China’s overhaul of its healthcare system were among the key takeaways.

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Evotec SE CEO Werner Lanthaler shared at a recent summit some big picture R&D insights that India may want to consider along its journey to leapfrog biopharma innovation, including learnings from his own company’s exit from the country close to a decade ago.

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Addressing the Global Innovation Summit - 2021, Lanthaler asserted that machine learning in drug discovery will change the way the world thinks about the future of products "dramatically" because human genetics will define

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