Pfizer's India MD On Funding Healthcare Startups
Oncology, Digital Health A Focus
Executive Summary
Pfizer’s India managing director, S Sridhar, talks to Scrip about funding startups focused on oncology and digital health, via the CSR route. Two such startups, SiCureMi and Tinkertech, are close to commercialization. Meanwhile, Pfizer's pact with MPP will allow the COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid to find its way to India and 94 other low- and middle-income countries
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