Cures & Capital

Aaron Schacht on the pharmaceutical industry's grand challenge and managing R&D at scale

Martin Slezak and Simon Birksø

In this episode, we talk to Aaron Schact, the CEO and Board Director at BiomEdit and former R&D leader at Eli Lilly and Elanco. 

We discuss how to improve biopharma's R&D productivity and the industry's "grand challenge", why R&D productivity is the mental model for managing R&D at scale, practical advice on how to approach and work with R&D productivity, and much more!

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Research paper: "How to improve R&D productivity: the pharmaceutical industry's grand challenge"
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd3078

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