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Pfizer's Dolsten On Finding Ways To “Accelerate External Science”

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• By Jessica Merrill

Worldwide President of R&D Mikael Dolsten talked to Scrip about Pfizer's busy business development track record and the company's ambition to maintain its leadership in breast cancer.

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Pfizer has been an active dealmaker this year • Source: Shutterstock

Pfizer Inc. has been on an M&A buying spree over the last year, powered by the unprecedented returns from its COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty and antiviral Paxlovid and with the aim of finding the next big commercial wins to fuel growth in the second half of the decade. For worldwide president of R&D Mikael Dolsten, that means finding new assets and talent and finding ways to continue successfully building the R&D organization as new groups join the big pharma.

Dolsten sat down with Scrip for an interview at the Galien Foundation Forum in New York on 26 October, and...

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