Sanofi Holds Brainstorming Sessions To Fuel Its Therapeutic Strategy Units
This article was originally published in Pharmaceutical Approvals Monthly
Executive Summary
Just two years after Sanofi-Aventis SA set out to reinvent itself as the flexible, entrepreneurial, easy-partnering, globally diversified health care leader of the future, the French pharma has mounted a grassroots campaign to familiarize the academic/biotech community with its new Therapeutic Strategy Units, a handful of targeted areas with high unmet need and commensurately huge opportunity that are part of Sanofi's long-range R&D strategy.
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