Eight Themes That Will Shape Biopharma In Transformational 2021

A year after COVID-19 first turned the world upside down, executives across the biopharma industry consider what 2021 holds in store. The impact of the pandemic will have profound and long-lasting implications for a sector that has been at the heart of responding to the global health challenge.

Eight Themes

“2021 will be a transformative year for biopharma and the life sciences. It will be the year where the credibility and power of science applied to human health will shine.” These words from Usman “Oz” Azam, president and CEO of Tmunity Therapeutics Inc., encapsulate the feelings of many of those working in a sector that has delivered vaccines and therapeutics at unprecedented speed in response to a terrifying new infectious disease that swept around the world in a few short weeks.

“It’s the year that we will hopefully recognize the personal investment by countless women and men in the life sciences...

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