As reported previously, Reed Maurer passed away on August 30 due to complications from pneumonia. He was approaching his 84th birthday.Reed has been a driver of the international pharma community in Japan like nobody else. Arriving over fifty years ago…
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Lilly Japan Set for Leading Spot in All Core Areas in 2025, “No Plan to Replicate” Redundancy Program: Chief
Eli Lilly Japan aims to be a leading company in all of its five key strategic areas by 2025, anticipating an “unprecedented number” of new drug approvals and indications coming over the next five years, President Simone Thomsen told Jiho…
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