How Research Head Jane Grogan Is Reinforcing Biogen’s Internal And External R&D Focus

Immunology Interests Fall Into Three ‘Buckets’

CEO Christopher Viehbacher has said repeatedly that Biogen will build its pipeline internally and through deals, and Grogan reshuffled the research organization with that in mind.

Jane Grogran spent the past year reworking Biogen's research organization (Shutterstock)

CEO Christopher Viehbacher has said consistently since he took the helm of Biogen in 2022 that the company will grow through both internal and external innovation, with an overarching goal of diversifying beyond neurology further into rare diseases and immunology. The hiring of Jane Grogan as head of research a year later reinforced that strategy and the new member of the leadership team told Scrip that she spent 2024 reorganizing her group with those overarching goals in mind.

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  • Biogen head of research Jane Grogan spoke to Scrip about reorienting the company’s research group to focus on the highest...

Grogan is an immunologist by training. She led immunology and immuno-oncology R&D programs at Genentech and more recently served as chief scientific officer of the cell...

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