Novartis Drug Discovery Centralization Brings R&D Relocations, Job Cuts
Executive Summary
Novartis' efforts to rationalize and centralize its drug discovery programs will see the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases moved from Singapore to California and the closure of biologics units in Shanghai and in the Swiss town of Schlieren.
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