Is Roche's pRED finally ready to step out from behind Genentech for its closeup? Probably not
Bioregnum
The view from John Carroll
It’s been close to 5 years since John Reed jumped from Sanford-Burnham to become the head of Roche’s Basel-based pRED organization. And only now is the big drug research group he leads getting a closeup after years spent watching his colleagues at gRED — Genentech — steal the show with a string of blockbuster hits.
The old pRED was shredded when Roche announced in the summer of 2012 that it would shutter its big R&D campus in Nutley, NJ and move a group of survivors into Manhattan. The reorganization, like any such R&D organization, Reed told me in 2013, was pure “poison” for the group, vowing to stick with a research strategy and avoid any more such traumatic disruptions.
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