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To combat soaring costs, Roche also plans to create more customized drugs and redesign the way it develops them. At the center of this push is the company's diagnostics unit, which Schwan oversaw before taking on the top job last year. Perhaps more than any of its rivals, Roche...
Roche's risk profile has also extended to being one of the largest investors in a red-hot area of drug research: ribonucleic-acid-mediated interference, or RNAi for short. First identified a decade ago, RNAi is a mechanism that exists naturally within all cells. Its discovery offered scientists one...
Schwan argues that taking over Genentech will, in fact, allow it to focus even more on the science at its core. But he also recognizes the need for freedom. "Genentech research needs to stay autonomous," Schwan says. "That is the key to preserving the specific culture they have."
In a debate of mostly general questions, she chose never to be any more specific than necessary. Had some planned policy points she was keen to make, but such moments were few and fleeting. Benefited from the format, which invited simplicity and avoided confrontation.
So far, Paulson and Bernanke have been specific only behind closed doors. On Sept. 18, they warned congressional leaders what inaction would bring: a stock-market crash, sky-high unemployment, Americans unable to get car loans, banks failing so fast that they would quickly drain the federal deposit insurance fund...