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- Title
Restructurally sound.
- Authors
Borrell, Brendan
- Abstract
The article focuses on the move of the world's major pharmaceutical companies to restructure its research and development activities as it is confronted with looming patent protection. It mentions the therapeutic strategy units (TSUs) of Sanofi-Aventis SA wherein clinical workers are taken to the earliest stages of drug discovery. It notes that drugmakers must maintain the creativity in discovery science while ensuring that the results translate to profit in the medical world.
- Subjects
PHARMACEUTICAL research; PHARMACEUTICAL industry; ORGANIZATIONAL change; PATENTS; RESEARCH &; development; DRUG development; SANOFI-Aventis SA; BUSINESS planning
- Publication
Nature Medicine, 2011, Vol 17, Issue 5, p531
- ISSN
1078-8956
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nm0511-531