Interview with Dan Zhang, CEO, Fountain Medical Development
You have an MD and you’ve worked in industry, but then you decided to become and entrepreneur. What challenges did you face in transitioning to starting your own company and…
Founded in 1988, the China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Development Association (PhIRDA) is registered as a non-profit organization by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of China at the first national level. PhIRDA will exert great effort on “academia-industry collaboration”, which centres on the principle of “innovation, industrialization, internationalization” and persists in innovation to achieve unmet clinical requirements.
Currently, PhIRDA has 142 members, which mainly consist of five major categories: First, start-up and R&D enterprises focusing on innovation of pharmaceutical products; Second, domestic first-class universities, colleges and research institutions conducting pharmaceutical research and development; Third clinical institutions featuring high skills in applicable research on new drugs, especially those that undertake “major new drug innovation” technological platform for good clinical practice; Fourth, investment institutions committing to pharmaceutical innovation; Fifth, national pharmaceutical enterprises excelling at innovation; Moreover, PhIRDA has established a Drug R&D Specialty Committee, Clinical Research Specialty Committee, Medicinal Policy Specialty Committee and Pharmaceutical Innovation Investment Specialty Committee, in order to promote innovation as the goal of organizational structure.
PhIRDA is also a member of International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) to continuously broaden channels of international collaboration.
Contact
Address: Room 601, CTYS Plaza, No. 5 Dongzhimen South Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, P.R. CHINA
Tel: +86 10-58156353
Email: luxt@phirda.com, ruanxx@phirda.com
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