Interview with André Choulika, President, France Biotech
France is a major pharmaceutical market, leader in Europe and number three in the world but it seems in biotechnologies, France lags behind. In your opinion, what has caused this?…
Since it was formed in 1994, the LFB Group has been developing, manufacturing and marketing biological medicinal products, for diseases that are always serious and often rare.
The LFB Group is now one of the leading European players in biopharmaceutical, its products are aimed at health professionals, mainly hospital-based, these are medicinal products derived from living organisms in three major fields of therapy: immunology, haemostasis and intensive care.
The LFB group is a biopharmaceutical company, one of the rare manufacturers in the world with expertise in different bioproduction techniques, offering plasma-derived medicinal products, recombinant medicinal products and advanced therapy treatments such as cell therapies. The LFB Group’s strategy is focused on international growth and an active research and development policy in its fields of therapeutic excellence.
LFB is a public company and the Group is growing in a competitive sector, with medicinal products sold in nearly 60 countries.
Over 2000 employees of the LFB Group, both in France and worldwide, are totally committed to meeting the needs of hundreds of thousands of patients.
Every year, LFB’s 23 biopharmaceuticals are used to treat hundreds of thousands of patients with serious and often rare diseases.
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