In her 1st comments since taking the helm on April 1st, GlaxoSmithKline‘s (NYSE:GSK) new chief executive Emma Walmsley said that her priority is the company’s pharmaceuticals unit, where she wants to lead fewer but bigger new drug launches.
“We’d like to have probably fewer and more focused priorities, to have bigger launches,” she told reporters, according to Reuters. Walmsley added that this would likely involve the closure of some research programs.
This approach is a shift for the British drugmaker, which has been prolific when it comes to drug launches but has not produced any multibillion-dollar blockbuster therapies recently.
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