After inking major deals with AbbVie and AstraZeneca, China-US company Harbour BioMed recently shifted strategy, divesting its site in Suzhou to WuXi in a bid to be “more focused, efficient and nimble” and emerge stronger post-pandemic, says founder, chairman and CEO Jingsong Wang in an exclusive interview.
US-China biopharma company Harbour BioMed, founded six years ago, recently made two unusual announcements.
One was that it would close its site in Suzhou and sell this to WuXi Biologics
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