No­vo Nordisk is whack­ing 400 R&D jobs, re­or­ga­niz­ing glob­al R&D ops around 4 “trans­for­ma­tion­al” units

No­vo Nordisk rolled out a new plan to re­vamp its glob­al R&D op­er­a­tions, slash­ing hun­dreds of jobs as it sets up new “biotech-like” re­search units in key hubs aimed at help­ing them line up new col­lab­o­ra­tions in key dis­ease fields.

Out: About 400 R&D jobs in es­tab­lished cen­ters in Den­mark and Chi­na, ax­ing out a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of staffers to make way for what No­vo is herald­ing as a dri­ve to height­ened in­no­va­tion.

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