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

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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 while he reflected on the experience of developing the world-changing COVID-19 products in the first part of the interview, he also discussed how the company is now directing some of the windfall from that success into business development and pipeline investment

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