Roche Opens NY R&D Hub As Its pRED Head Vows To Boost Alliances
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Amid a day of celebrations around the long-awaited opening of its translational and clinical research center in New York, Roche’s new head of research and early development, the superstar scientist John Reed, offered a glimpse of how the organization is restructuring its external relationships and its priorities going forward.
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