FILE PHOTO: CEO Vas Narasimhan of Swiss drugmaker Novartis addresses the company's annual news conference in Basel, Switzerland, Jan. 30, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
Still, “acquisitions have slowed recently from a structural perspective” during the pandemic, he said. Moreover, he said Novartis had hoped to be faster in developing new drugs against COVID-19 and could have potentially profited from more cooperation with smaller biotech companies. “We concentrated more on our own in-house activities - and learned a lesson from it,” he said.
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