Pfizer Kory, Iris, Tim, Ryan Industry Focus • Product Leadership • Development of a new product • Probability that it will be approved • The expected launch time • Product life cycle Cost & Development Time • $880 million • 15 years on average to develop Role of R&D • Spend the most capital on R&D • Only develop a product if it will be extremely successful R&D Process • To target identification and validation • Lead screening and optimization • Testing phase Genome Project & Drug Development • Target identification- now possible to associate specific genes with specific diseases • Genes can be used as the targets