Novartis has been heralding its slimmed-down, more-focused pipeline to analysts for which much of the credit goes to Shreeram Aradhye, who after a spell in US biotech returned to his roots with the Swiss firm a couple of years ago to become president, development and chief medical officer.
Novartis Benefits From Biotech Lessons Taught By Development Head Aradhye
The Swiss major’s chief medical officer tells Scrip about how “an R&D/commercial continuum” is helping to speed up innovation across the group.

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