AZ has had crap R for years. Setting up near Cambridge allows them to get a few Interns, and drink beer in the local pub, with a chance to sit near someone in a cap and gown.
Anyone in Cambridge with any ability started their own stuff. They won't join a carcass like AZ.
Field sales here. This is what happens when you have overpaid idiots running the show! We have reps running into each in the field trying to call on the same doc for the same drug on the same day! We have DM's that stay in the field 2 hours then leave for a make believe conference call. DM's that can't even present a good product discussion with a doc! We need one rep per territory!
You just don't seem to get it. Let me know as soon as any one of these research sites produces anything of note. The AZ R&D organization is now entirely run by: constantly on holiday Europeans, incompetent Medimmuners and the dregs of what remains in Cambridge, who hadn't already left to join a more productive organization after the woeful Medimmune acquisition. R&D at AZ essentially ended today, if it hadn't already. The prospects of a large merger are even higher now. The pipeline is completely dead now. This is essentially a run off business now as it currently stands.
Great News! Global Strategic R&D Centres will be Cambridge, UK, Gaithersburg, US, and Mölndal, Sweden... Goodbye Wilmington and Alderley Park... Say hello to major scientific hubs like Cambridge, Gaithersburg, and Gothenburg!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...moves-HQ-to-Cambridge-in-research-revamp.html[/QUOT
Hello? Does anyone remember why the R&D was disbanded a few years back? First of all they could not complete the trials and get a drug to market. Why? Because all those supposedly brainiacs were too busy imbibing toot, prescription drugs and having morning, afternoon and whatever delights! Inmates running the asylum! All the new talking heads trying to make a name for themselves. Again patients waiting for all these new drugs are screwed, and not in the fun way the brainiacs were. There you go, more wasted money, AZ. Or should you rename yourself "Titanic Pharmaceuticuls"? Pathetic.
Why rock the boat asshole!???
I'm a level VII in R & D, we can't find shit, we're not incented to find shit, but there's about seven layers of management pushing paper around and giving powerpoint meetings talking shit, and they're paying us BIG coin. So, what would you do, huh? Wife and kids, mortgage -- I know -- tell them it's a bunch of BS. Right. I remember a guy that tried that, a few years ago. I wonder where he is today.
You just don't seem to get it. Let me know as soon as any one of these research sites produces anything of note. The AZ R&D organization is now entirely run by: constantly on holiday Europeans, incompetent Medimmuners and the dregs of what remains in Cambridge, who hadn't already left to join a more productive organization after the woeful Medimmune acquisition. R&D at AZ essentially ended today, if it hadn't already. The prospects of a large merger are even higher now. The pipeline is completely dead now. This is essentially a run off business now as it currently stands.
You just don't seem to get it. Let me know as soon as any one of these research sites produces anything of note. The AZ R&D organization is now entirely run by: constantly on holiday Europeans, incompetent Medimmuners and the dregs of what remains in Cambridge, who hadn't already left to join a more productive organization after the woeful Medimmune acquisition. R&D at AZ essentially ended today, if it hadn't already. The prospects of a large merger are even higher now. The pipeline is completely dead now. This is essentially a run off business now as it currently stands.
Sorry to break it to you but MedI is the only competent component of AZ. The pipeline is still a few years off but at least they have viable options, unlike in the small molecule side. Get your head out of the sand.
Sorry to break it to you but MedI is the only competent component of AZ. The pipeline is still a few years off but at least they have viable options, unlike in the small molecule side. Get your head out of the sand.
I used to work in R&D at Alderley Park. They tried to turn us scientists into bullshit spewing sales arse holes, like some of you lot and that daft twat of a CEO who we eventually got rid of, and look where it got us.
Now they want us to be all scientific again and hope that hanging out with the Cambridge toffs will screw our heads back on. Fucking jokers. Scientists are highly skilled workers not dum sales fodder. Once you lost those skills they are gone. Some knob in sales goes you just recruit a used car salesmen. A Biochemist with twenty years experience who knows the unspoken flaws of every assay in the department cannot be replaced. Don't worry your little heads about what an "assay" is. Just put it in that part of your brain labelled" Too Complicated For Me".
Sales wankers. Know your place. Leave the science to the scientists.
I used to work in R&D at Alderley Park. They tried to turn us scientists into bullshit spewing sales arse holes, like some of you lot and that daft twat of a CEO who we eventually got rid of, and look where it got us.
Now they want us to be all scientific again and hope that hanging out with the Cambridge toffs will screw our heads back on. Fucking jokers. Scientists are highly skilled workers not dum sales fodder. Once you lost those skills they are gone. Some knob in sales goes you just recruit a used car salesmen. A Biochemist with twenty years experience who knows the unspoken flaws of every assay in the department cannot be replaced. Don't worry your little heads about what an "assay" is. Just put it in that part of your brain labelled" Too Complicated For Me".
Sales wankers. Know your place. Leave the science to the scientists.
