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.

Shreeram Aradhye (Novartis)

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.

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