Bringing Urgency And Focus To Takeda: An Interview With Tachi Yamada
Executive Summary
In a wide-ranging interview conducted at Elsevier’s PSA 2013 conference, Takeda’s R&D chief spoke of progress in building a global vaccine business, of the key late-stage assets that will carry the company into the next decade, and of business development priorities in the post-Nycomed era.
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