ireland Mr. Mazeman, can you please begin by offering a brief overview of your career to date? I am a French pharmacist by training, with expertise in pharmacology. I have worked for Servier for my entire career. I started in the industry as a medical representative for the company. I went…
Great Eastern Drug Pharmaceutical Executive, highlighting the milestones in the company development since you took over five years ago? Unilab is the biggest pharmaceutical company in the Philippines, with a market share of over 20 percent which it has consistently maintained for more than three decades. Its portfolio includes some of the biggest…
Romanian Association of International Drug Manufacturers (ARPIM) While, today, you are in charge of voicing the concerns of the innovators in the country, let us first take a step back and see what attracted these companies to Romania in the first place. Can you tell our readers more about the key factors of attraction in that sense?…
India Since the company’s foundation in 1993, Hetero has clearly come a long way. What were the key success factors at that time, which laid the groundwork of a successful company? First of all, I am a scientist by background, and before founding Hetero I had been working at Dr. Reddy’s…
State Institute for Drug Control (SUKL) Mr. Březovký, can you begin with an introduction to SUKL and its role within the Czech Republic’s complex regulatory environment? I would like to begin by noting that I have been at my position as director of SUKL from the 1st of May of this year—today, I have been six…
Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) Since we last met in 2006, the Indian pharmaceutical industry has been doing very well indeed, as a very large number of drugs came off patent. This trend will continue in the coming years. Today this is a crucial moment for India: the industry is at a crossroad. How has…
Taiwan Food & Drug Administration In January 2010, the Taiwan FDA was newly created from four existing agencies. What was the vision behind the creation of this new organisation? What did the government want to achieve in its creation? Although all the administration work done today by the TFDA was already being done by the…
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Philippine Ms. Tacandong, you assumed office as Director of the Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) in June 2009, and two months later the BFAD became Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following the Food and Drug Administration Act of 2009. What have been the main changes between the BFAD and the…
Korea Drug Research Association (KDRA) What was the vision behind the creation of the Korea Drug Research Association and its main role in the pharmaceutical sector? Until the middle of the 1980s when Korea Drug Research Association (KDRA) was established, the Korean pharmaceutical industry did very little in terms of innovation activities in R&D. They…
Korea Food & Drug Administration Please introduce the Korean Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) and its main health-related responsibilities within the Korean government… The KFDA’s main duty is to cooperate and support with domestic and foreign governments, international organizations, research organizations, and related industries to develop safety management system based on the professional knowledge. The…
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