Paul Hudson, who has just celebrated his five year anniversary as CEO of Sanofi, feels that the firm is well on the way to being regarded as an elite R&D company, an area where it has lagged behind the industry’s research-based heavyweights.
Hudson Holds Reins As Sanofi Makes Strides To Become R&D Powerhouse
“For 20 or 30 years, we were not seen as a scientific leader,” the French major’s CEO tells Scrip. Now, things have started to change with several positive readouts coming out of its immunology portfolio.

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