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Bridging the Researcher-Patient Gap

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Karuppiah Kannan

Karuppiah Kannan, associate director at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, discusses what it was like as a researcher to meet with patients during the Moving Mountains for Multiple Myeloma Grand Canyon hike.

Karuppiah Kannan, associate director at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, discusses what it was like as a researcher to meet with patients during the Moving Mountains for Multiple Myeloma Grand Canyon hike.

Patients and researchers are on two ends of the treatment spectrum, who, though they rarely meet, cannot exist without the other.

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