New chief aims to revive Sanofi (Bloomberg)

Sanofi has appointed a new CEO, Paul Hudson, to revive its slumping stock price and a pipeline that’s been slow to deliver.

Hudson highlighted a few of the areas he will focus on at Sanofi cancer, RSV vaccine and China opportunities, and Bloomberg asked Novasecta for their opinion on how he can achieve his goals:

“I suspect they will double down on specialty care because that’s where the growth is most likely going to come from, that requires making some tough calls, probably doing some M&A and continuing to streamline R&D.”

It will be interesting to see if Hudson can translate his success at Novartis to Sanofi and what lessons can be learnt from the MidPharma sector.