February 3, 2012 -- Steve Yang, AstraZeneca’s high profile VP and Head of R&D for Asian and Emerging Markets, is setting an ambitious goal for the company’s China R&D operation: “We will try to innovate and transform how we do R&D,” said Yang in a McKinsey Quarterly interview. Because innovative pharma development is still new in China, “we are starting with a clean slate,” he added. “But that could be an opportunity,” given that established ways of doing drug R&D are not institutionalized, leaving China free to map its own path. More details....
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