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Canada Despite its relative youth, Canada’s medical cannabis industry is already presenting some of the characteristics of the much more mature pharmaceutical industry. There is consolidation as well as the first moves towards differentiating business models. “With medical cannabis, there is a chance to re-evaluate entirely the way we look at…

India In this exclusive interview, Binish Chudgar, vice-chairman and managing director of Intas, the largest privately-owned Indian pharmaceutical company with sales of over USD 1.7 billion during the last financial year, provides insights into the company’s growth model and M&A approach, as well as his objectives with regards to a large-scale…

UK Tony Jones, CEO of One Nucleus, a life sciences membership organization centered on the Greater London-Cambridge-East of England corridor, discusses the role of SMEs within the UK’s healthcare ecosystem, translational research, and how the association’s members will navigate the post-Brexit landscape in the UK.  One Nucleus, which was established in…

UK Ben Ellis, general manager at Lupin UK and Ireland, talks about the strategic challenges of transitioning from the sphere of generics to specialist pharma and how he hopes Lupin can change how it is perceived. Furthermore, he comments on the uncertainty Brexit brings to the industry and how healthcare should…

Canada Having just announced the first collaboration between a medical cannabis company and a major pharmaceutical player, Tilray expects to launch its first co-branded product with Sandoz Canada by the end of the year. Tilray’s founder and CEO Brendan Kennedy highlights the company’s main differentiation factors, including but not limited to…

Canada After 35 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Barry Fishman shares his excitement about heading one of Canada’s leading licensed cannabis producers. He explains how his experience in the world of pharma helps him to steer ABcann towards global expansion and emphasizes the importance of product development in both adult-use and…

Baltics Vasily and Svetlana Bankovsky, founders of Biosan, talk about the company’s philosophy to develop modern, exciting personal products for sample preparation in the field of genomics, proteomics and cellomics and about their ambition to grow domestically and internationally. Vasily and Svetlana, can you give our international readers a brief overview…

India India’s pharmaceutical sales and forecast from 2013 up to 2021. Between 2017 and 2021, the Indian pharma market is forecasted to grow by a CAGR of between nine and ten percent. The Indian biotechnology market grew by a CAGR of 20.33% between 2005 and 2015 and stood at USD 11.6…

Canada With a diverse pipeline to back up its projects, Tetra Bio-Pharma wants to be the first Canadian pharmaceutical company to launch a cannabis-based drug in breakthrough pain. Bernard Fortier, CEO of Tetra Bio-Pharma, counts on the production of credible scientific data to overcome stigmas attached to medical cannabis and believes…

Canada Heading Canada’s largest cannabis Business to Business Retailer, John Fowler, CEO of The Supreme Cannabis Company, offers a novel approach looking at medical cannabis as a medicine that is not just healing but can also be enjoyable. He discusses the company’s business model that differs from that of other licensed…

UK Tim de Gavre, country head of Sandoz UK, discusses the role of biosimilars in driving innovation, the threats and opportunities of Brexit to the biosimilars industry, and how Sandoz partners with the NHS. In addition to your role at Sandoz, you are also one of the founding members of the…

India Satish Varma, managing director of Fermenta Biotech Ltd., one of the world’s largest and leading producers of Vitamin D3, provides insights into the indisputable benefits brought by the “Vitamin of the Century”, his approach to instill the best quality and regulatory standards in the company as well as his priorities…