Roche’s Push In Cancer Immunotherapy: An Interview With New Exec Hy Levitsky
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
“Cancer immunology will play a far greater role than it ever has within the [Roche Pharma Research and Early Development Organization] and we hope there will be synergies we can exploit with other treatment modalities under development at Roche,” Levitsky says.
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