Pfizer VP to stay in MI, wants to start new company

Roger Newton, Senior VP of Research and Development at Pfizer announced that he plans to stay in Michigan and will start a new life sciences company.

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Newton said Ann Arbor would be better off with a range of companies, instead of one major corporation. "I think we can have a much stronger basis for what we want to do down the road by not having a large corporation that's headquartered somewhere else that really never became part -- truly became part -- of the community," he
said.

Newton said he wants to stay in Ann Arbor. "People said to me, 'You're going to leave, aren't you? You're not going to stick around here??' I said, 'Why?' This is the most exciting place you could be right now," Newton said.

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