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Europe As China and the US attract an increasing share of commercial clinical trials, Europe is fighting to reclaim its spot as a global research leader. While Europe has world-class hospitals and experienced regulators, it has struggled with a complicated and fragmented approval system that has pushed trial sponsors elsewhere. To…

Switzerland Marking 160 years of uninterrupted evolution, Max Zeller stands at the intersection of tradition and modernity in plant-based healthcare. CEO Georg Boonen reflects on the company’s continued role in shaping evidence-based phytotherapy, from pioneering prescription-grade herbal medicines in Switzerland to launching the Zeller Plus line of preventive supplements. With a…

Puerto Rico Rolando Torres, Chief Operations Officer for CooperVision, a division of global medical device company CooperCompanies, discussed the significant growth and investment CooperVision has experienced in Puerto Rico since 2019, including expansions in manufacturing, packaging, and a workforce increase from 1,700 to nearly 2,500 employees. He highlighted the company’s $500 million…

Denmark As Denmark prepares to assume the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on July 1st of 2025, attention is turning to what this small yet strategically positioned country will bring to the table. Under the slogan ‘A strong Europe in a changing world’, the Danish Ministry of…

China With nearly half of Chinese adults now suffering from myopia and age-related eye conditions on the rise, China is on the brink of an ophthalmology boom — a market set to more than double by 2031. While global players like Santen have taken an early lead, a new wave of…

Switzerland From regenerating damaged muscles to rewriting the cell manufacturing playbook, Switzerland’s next wave of biotech innovators is turning regenerative medicine into a precision science. Once considered futuristic, technologies like autologous tissue grafts, gene-edited therapies, and cell-state reprogramming are now gaining real-world traction with Swiss startups at the forefront. These five…

Switzerland Stefan Schmidt traces a dynamic career from early biotech ventures in Germany to senior leadership roles at AstraZeneca, Lonza, and now CEO of evitria, a specialised Swiss CRO focused on complex antibody development. Evitria is expanding its technology and global reach to become a key partner in bispecific and engineered…

LatAm MSD’s Leonardo Semprun, writing in the June 2025 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, reflects on some of the key lessons from the Latin America Town Hall at DIA Europe 2025. Latin America is at a pivotal moment in the evolution of its regulatory systems. Factors such as the adoption…

Europe Writing in the June 2025 edition of DIA’s Global Forum Magazine, Finn McCartney, Maria Dutarte, Petra Adámková, and Paola Kruger from the European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI) weigh in on how the patient voice is being incorporated into Joint Clinical Assessments (JCA) under the new EU Health Technology…

Germany Once a little-known mRNA pioneer, BioNTech became a household name with its COVID-19 vaccine developed alongside Pfizer. But the German biotech is now pursuing an even bigger transformation — and China is at the heart of its strategy. Using vaccine proceeds to tap China’s booming life sciences ecosystem, BioNTech has…

Canada Dr David Reddy, Director General, IFPMA, and Dr Bettina Hamelin, President, IMC, jointly advocate for health innovation at the 2025 G7 Summit in Kananaskis (15-17 June). They call G7 leaders to place health and life-sciences innovation at the heart of the G7 agenda, emphasizing three areas of focus where the…

Europe Lora Fleifel, Director of Global Value Access & Pricing Operations Europe for Oncology at Merck, dissects the promise and pitfalls of the new EU Joint Clinical Assessment (JCA). The JCA aims to harmonise clinical evaluations to help reduce the significant disparities in patient access to innovative treatments that still exist…