J.P. Morgan Day Four: Talking With Execs About BD Plans

Interviews With Lilly, Roche, Takeda And More

12 Jan 2023

• By Scrip Team

Daily notebook from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference: Big pharma execs weigh in on business development strategy, Sage CEO Barry Green discusses how the Inflation Reduction Act should spur deal-making and bluebird talks about gene therapy commercialization plans.

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Roche Holding AG global head of pharma partnering James Sabry told Scrip the company is exploring business development in new therapeutic areas outside of the ones it is best known for, like oncology, ophthalmology and neuroscience. It's all still in the exploratory stage, but the company is interested in bringing in some new science in areas like cardiometabolic disease and infectious disease, he said.

"We will start to evaluate this year other therapeutic areas that we historically may not have a footprint in right now, but we're curious," Sabry said

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