Strong Medicine
Peter Day visits two Swiss pharmaceutical companies, one huge and one tiny, linked by their quest for a treatment for Alzheimers disease to look at the future of drug discovery.
Big problems loom over the pharmaceutical industry which influences so many people's lives. Giant corporations are beset by scandal and their pipelines of new treatments are running dry. Peter Day looks at the future of the industry through the eyes of two Swiss pharma companies, one very big and one of them tiny. Both are linked by their quest for a treatment for Alzheimers.
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
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Severin Schwan
CEO, Roche
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Andreas Knierzinger
Head Treasury and Financing, Roche
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Michael Owen
Chairman, Sami Consulting
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Luca Santerelli
Head of Neuroscience, Roche
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Andrea Pfeifer
CEO, AC Immune
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