Mis­sion pos­si­ble: As­traZeneca CEO So­ri­ot ral­lies the troops, promis­ing to fight on

“To­geth­er, we are poised to achieve some­thing re­mark­able and that few thought pos­si­ble. Noth­ing can break the mo­men­tum you have es­tab­lished, and cer­tain­ly not ru­mors.”

Pas­cal So­ri­ot chose those words to ral­ly a bad­ly rat­tled staff at As­traZeneca in a memo cir­cu­lat­ed ear­li­er this week, ac­cord­ing to a re­port from Reuters’ Ben Hirschler. So­ri­ot fol­lowed up with a com­mit­ment to make an ap­pear­ance at the Eu­ro­pean So­ci­ety for Med­ical On­col­o­gy meet­ing in Madrid ear­ly Sep­tem­ber, if the glob­al gi­ant is ready to pub­lish de­tails of MYS­TIC, the key com­bi­na­tion study of dur­val­um­ab and treme­li­mum­ab that every­one is now wait­ing for.

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