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Tunisia Moez Lidinallah Mokaddem, ENA graduate and CEO of the Central Pharmacy of Tunisia (PCT), introduces the institution he works for and the central role it plays in the import of drugs to the country, as it holds an absolute monopole on said imports. He also provides us with an insight…

Canada Douglas Clark, Executive Director of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), Canada’s federal price regulator for patented medicines, highlights the PMPRB’s mandate to protect consumers against excessive prices for patented drugs, the rationale behind the recent proposed changes to their guidelines, and the role PMPRB can play within Canada’s…

Brazil Fabio Bussinger, partner-director of the Pharmaceutical Institute of Operational Governance (IFGO) in Brazil, documents the market needs that prompted him to set up Benchmarking Operational Competitiveness (BCO) Farma, a long-awaited benchmarking panel focused on operational excellence that has already delivered great outcomes to its members. You were operations vice president…

Ukraine Vladimir Sayenko, founding partner, and Anzhela Makhinova, counsel, of the leading Ukrainian law firm Sayenko Kharenko, give an overview on the Ukrainian pharmaceutical industry in 2017 and explain the expansion of the firm into new practices in order to further respond to the needs of its clients. What has changed…

Hong Kong Joyce Wong, managing director for APAC at compliance solutions provider Polaris in Hong Kong, describes the company’s innovative solutions for its clients in the life sciences, the significance of basing its regional headquarters in Hong Kong, and increasing compliance across the industry. It is very atypical for a senior executive…

Austria Harald Isemann, chairman of the Vienna Biocenter (VBC) – one of the leading life science hubs in Europe – and Managing Director of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), a VBC member, provides insights into the main tasks of the VBC, the organization of the IMP and the challenges it…

Greece Pharmaceutical logistics companies in Greece have had to work hard and innovatively to emerge from the debt crisis; focusing on leveraging international connections and maintaining quality to stay profitable. Now however, major new international investment into the port of Piraeus stands to put Greece back on the world logistics map.…

Switzerland The General Manager of bioMérieux Switzerland and Austria highlights the significance of Switzerland for the company’s regional cluster and furthermore explains how Switzerland contributes to the global development of the company. Could you please introduce yourself and bioMérieux’s organization in Switzerland and Austria? “Our overall mission is naturally to improve…

Greece John Kandylis, GM of Greek logistics market leader Olympias, discusses his company’s unique service offering, negotiating the issues brought about by the financial crisis, and retaining a family-run spirit while expanding internationally. Olympias SA is positioned as a market leader in logistics with deep expertise in the field. Could you…

Poland Poland’s entrance into the EU has been a catalyst for growth that has allowed the country to flourish, shown by the nation’s ranking as the eighth largest economy in Europe according to the World Bank. The introduction into Europe has sprung the borders open, and for the Polish pharmaceutical industry this…

Europe Europe accounts for 22.2 percent of global pharma sales; more than Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Latin America combined, but less than half of North America. The biopharmaceutical industry is a key contributor to the European economy in terms of both trade surplus and employment; especially highly-skilled R&D jobs. Germany is…

USA While pledging to lower drug prices has proved popular, the Trump administration’s proposed FDA reform has been getting some pharmaceutical executives worried. In a meeting with Big Pharma CEOs at the end of January; US President Donald Trump called for drug prices to be lowered, US production of medicines to…