Biogen Staying "Laser-Focused" On Neuroscience

The company is under pressure from investors to add new pipeline assets, but stronger than expected initial sales of Spinraza helped to assuage near-term growth concerns.

Profile of a human head with a colorful symbol of neurons in the brain

Biogen may have a new CEO at the helm, but the company doesn't appear to be wavering from its strategy of investing in the high-risk, high-reward field of neuroscience.

"We do have a differentiated expertise in neuroscience and expect this to remain our core going forward," CEO Michel Vounatsos...

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