COVID-19 Accounts For Most Of 2020’s Pharma Pipeline Growth

Novartis Still Dominates Pipeline But Roche Catches Up

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the size of the pharma R&D pipeline in 2020 could be felt in a number of ways.    

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Nearly 800 new drugs and vaccines in development for COVID-19 helped push the total size of the biopharma R&D pipeline to 18,582 products at the start of 2021, new analysis by Citeline’s drug database Pharmaprojects shows.

There were 845 more drugs in development at the start of 2021 than there were at the same timepoint in...

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