Will Shire's top R&D tal­ent bolt now that Take­da has struck a merg­er agree­ment?

With the Take­da/Shire merg­er un­der­way, the big ques­tion now is whether the old­er ac­quir­er can com­bine the two R&D or­ga­ni­za­tions with­out the kind of dis­rup­tion that has marked past deals in­volv­ing big play­ers. I dis­cussed that re­cent­ly with Andy Plump, the R&D chief who will have to see to the de­tails. And Take­da CEO Christophe We­ber is clear­ly back­ing a swift res­o­lu­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to the news wire, We­ber wants to quick­ly move to chop out pro­grams that don’t make the cut on in­no­va­tion.

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