'No Future Without New Drugs': Yuhan CSO On Open Innovation Strategy

TPD, RNA, Cell/Gene Therapies All In Sights

Yuhan’s chief scientific officer shares why the leading Korean pharma firm is stepping up its open innovation activities and how this is helping to transform the company into a more global and R&D-based enterprise.

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Each Development Stage A 'Fight Against Success Rates' Yuhan Says • Source: Shutterstock

For Yuhan Corporation, the past several years have marked a new beginning in terms of the development and globalization of novel drugs, and the pursuit of an open innovation approach to R&D has been at the center of this era.

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