Novartis’s Chief Medical Officer On All Things MS And The Science Of Operations
Executive Summary
Shreeram Aradhye, Novartis’s Global Head, Medical Affairs, and Chief Medical Officer (Pharmaceuticals), outlines the company’s all-encompassing-approach for multiple sclerosis therapies. In a wide-ranging interview with Scrip, Aradhye also touches on the promise of gene therapy and how emerging technologies are helping shape medical innovation.
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