PPD's Lee Babiss On Virtual R&D In China: An Interview With PharmAsia News (Part 2 Of 2)
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Lee Babiss left his position as president of pharmaceutical research at Roche to become the executive vice president of global laboratory services at the Wilmington, North Carolina-based contract research organization PPD. In part one of an interview with PharmAsia News, Babiss spoke about the evolving relationships between pharmaceutical firms and CROs, including end-to-end virtualization of R&D (PharmAsia News, April 6, 2010).
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