The wags that write the Wall Street Journal's health blog delighted in pointing out that as chief of Pfizer's R&D, Peter Corr hardly covered himself in pharma glory. Will he do better helping run Celtic Therapeutics? The splashy equity group prospects for promising therapies and then shepherds them through final trials. Corr says it's all very opportunistic and flexible, everything that Pfizer isn't. "When you're running an organization of 14,000 people, you're not running projects," Corr told the Health Blog. "The key to R&D for me...is a very small group."
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