Biogen, Inc. has been no stranger to the biopharma spotlight during the past few years, but behind the scrutiny of the company’s Alzheimer’s drug approvals and its need to return to revenue growth, head of development Priya Singhal spearheaded a thoughtful approach to restructuring the pipeline that began before Christopher Viehbacher became CEO and instituted commercial and R&D cost-cutting aimed at resetting Biogen’s trajectory.
Biogen’s Singhal Offers A Look Into Company's Pipeline Review
Explains How Company Validated Its Assets, Reduced Portfolio Risk
Priya Singhal, head of development, spoke with Scrip about the company’s R&D restructuring, readouts coming from the culled pipeline and how Biogen is thinking about adding to it in the future.

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