Big pharma appears to be resetting operations in India fueling some concerns of waning interest. In Vivo looks at what the realignment means or doesn’t.

Pfizer effects hundreds of field force job cuts in India as it rewires its commercialization approach and creates new roles leveraging its ‘digital core’, but industry experts suggest there is a complex mix of other factors at play as well.

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

Senior management executives of Roche, Bayer, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Novo Nordisk in India signal momentum in product launch and clinical trial activity, belying apprehension of wider cutbacks by foreign firms in the country, though one executive stressed that “tried and tested models” may not work in the largely self-pay market.