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AstraZeneca: Big Pharma to Big Biotech (Bloomberg)

AstraZeneca’s Q1 2019 results were released today (26th April) with their oncology portfolio helping drive profits past analyst’s expectations. Bloomberg asked Novasecta for their thoughts: “They’ve got a whole raft of approvals in the pipeline, their transition from big pharma to big biotech is happening.”

The new initiatives of Pascal Soriot are clearly bearing fruit with relatively high investment in R&D, a reorganisation of their R&D structure, high deal volume (2nd highest over the last 5 years in the Global 100) and focus on increasing R&D programme success, from 4% to 20%.