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Podcast: Biotech CEO Interview – Harbour BioMed's Wang On Moderna Deal, New Subsidiary

Enable "ideas to IND", shift from China to global

 
• By Brian Yang

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.

China Biotech CEO Podcast
Harbour Biomed talks around strategy and innovation in this audio 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. The other was that it would set up a new US subsidiary, Nona...

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