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Global Medical &
​​​​​​​Scientific Affairs
Our Focus:  PATIENTS

All of us share one mission:  to discover, develop and provide innovative products and services that save and improve lives around the world.
Who We Are

Our Global Medical & Scientific Affairs team is focused on conducting scientific exchange with external stakeholders to improve understanding of our company’s innovative pipeline and licensed products.
What We Do

Our Global Medical & Scientific Affairs team plays a critically important role in communicating about our scientific programs and advancing patient care.

Our priorities:
  • Peer-to-peer, bi-directional scientific exchange
  • Enhanced understanding and involvement in R&D and our product life cycle
  • Greater data insight
  • Proper communication into the marketplace
  • Information sharing with internal partners to inform decision making regarding product development, commercialization and life-cycle management
  • Greater scientific focus externally among a network of approximately 2,000
Why It Matters
​​​​​​​We are working to advance the evolution of patient care. With our pipeline, there is greater need for:
  • Rapid data exchange
  • Advanced interactions with an increasingly diverse, interconnected
  • group of scientific leaders and decision makers
  • Local data generation to contextualize Phase 3 results and enable
  • reimbursement decisions
Where We Are Going

We are raising the bar on scientific exploration by further expanding our team of expert physicians and scientists.
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The Inspired Journey of Global Medical & Scientific Affairs

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Real-World Medical Insights
  • Clincal care priorities in various countries
  • Current and future patient management
  • Care pathways and linkage
  • Opportunities for healthcare efficiencies
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Scientific Exchange
  • Understand how customers evaluate our company’s emerging science
  • Input on required evidence to demonstrate value and improve patient outcomes
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Medical Education
  • Close education gaps
  • Discuss totality of the evidence
  • Sustainable healthcare solutions and opportunities for efficiency gains
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Real-World Clinicial Support
  • Complement value package with locally relevant data
  • Demonstrate impact of education and patient programs

Hear more about what drives our employees each day

Every day we're impacting lives by bringing the most cutting-edge information to the people who need it most.
Alanna Farrell-Foster Director, Medical Affairs - Health Systems
The innovations that we're making now are revolutionary. Our work focuses on the cutting edge and the most important thing to us is ensuring these solutions will change lives.
Eliav Barr Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs
The company continues to innovate. In pipeline, in people, in processes. It's what's driven our success thus far and something we strive to continue doing.
Helen Ha Director, Scientific Affairs
How we engage across functional groups is really about people.
​​​​​​​Ensuring that folks with different skills are matched is what helps us get the right solutions and deliverables.
Andra Stevenson
Director, Scentific Affairs
Internally, we're creating innovative ways to manage our information with the latest technology. It's a really creative environment.
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Ellie Corigliano Director, Medical Affairs - Oncology Biomarkers
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