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Novartis CEO Dr Vasella will organize a restructuring designed to get rid of bueaucracy in Novartis operations. He has see more than six layers between senior management and the lower ranks in many situations inside Novartis. The goal is speedier decisionmaking. He will also look at the large expense of third party companies that oversee clinical trials.

Novartis is developing a whole new system for developing pharmaceutical treatments by putting medical science at the centre of things.

12/11/2007

Novartis' CEO Vasella, and Dr Fishman who heads the global research labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are redoing the way the company develops drugs and runs the company. Senior leaders are now medically trained scientists, and Novartis has shed much of the old marketing and sales staff. Drug discovery focusses on Dr. Fishman's approach to go after common molecular pathways and develop medicines for diseases that may be rare, but reveal the knowledge behind addressing all diseases that have that common underlying molecular pathway as the source of the diseases functioning.

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