What is a ‘cure,’ really? AbbVie’s Humira creator leaps into the next phase of medicine

“‘Cure’ is one of the most misunderstood terms in medicine,” said Jochen Salfeld, AbbVie’s vice president of virology discovery research and head of R&D cures. “What we’re trying to encourage our scientists to do is to think about what it would take to get all the way to a cure, which we define as the disease-free or infection-free state after a limited time of treatment.”