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India Yugal Sikri, chairman of the Pharmaceutical Management Program of the prestigious NMIMS University, and with an extremely rich experience in the pharmaceutical industry, explains his mission to build a valuable discussion platform for CEOs and institutions of the industry alike.  Such industry efforts will ensure the Indian pharmaceutical industry efficiently…

India Raghuveer Kini, executive director of the Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) provides insights into the key success factors that have allowed India to become the world’s pharmaceutical hub and gives us his assessment of the recent plateauing of Indian exports as well as an overview of the new…

Baltics In terms of being able to access medicines, patients in the Baltic states fare poorly compared to many of their European counterparts. 135 new medicines were approved by regulators in Lithuania and Estonia in 2016, but only 38 and 30 were made available to patients respectively. Latvia fares even worse,…

India Jean-Pierre Baylet, country head for India and cluster head for South Asia at Sanofi Pasteur, provides insights into the progress and room for improvement that lie ahead for India’s immunization program, while highlighting Sanofi’s unrivalled commitment to protecting the Indian population from vaccine- preventable diseases like polio and flu as…

Latvia The top 20 companies in the Latvian pharmaceutical market for 2017, sorted by total value and market share, with data on year-on-year growth. American giant AbbVie ranks first, with an almost six percent market share and astounding 65 percent year-on-year growth, followed by TEVA and Sanofi.

UK Terry O’Regan, VP and managing director at Biogen UK and Ireland, discusses the company’s longstanding commitment to the UK, market access issues, and why Biogen is staying the course with developing Alzheimer’s products at a time when many MNCs are winding down their neurology programs. How would you describe Biogen’s…

Canada Looking back on 40 years of commitment to Canada, Servier also celebrates 20 years of R&D activity in the country. On this two-fold anniversary, Frédéric Fasano highlights some of the company’s more recent achievements in terms of portfolio growth and partnering efforts, while also addressing some of the challenges Servier…

Canada Dwight Gorham, president and CEO of Pillar5 Pharma, discusses the unique positioning of the CDMO in the multi-dose preservative free sterile ophthalmics space and stresses the importance of anticipating market trends in order to fuel expansion. Finally, he gives an insight into the importance of honing new skills and how…

India The global pharmaceutical outsourcing market was estimated to be USD 115.7 billion in 2016, of which 49 percent is accounted for by contract research organisations (CROs). Within India, the contract research market is scheduled to grow from around USD one billion in 2016 to USD 1.97 billion by 2023 according…

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…

Poland Jan Kruk of Polish pharmaceutical logistics and distribution specialist, Cefarm, discusses the organization’s secrets of success, as well as the broader logistics and distribution landscape in Poland.  As the president of Cefarm, what are your goals and objectives over the next few years? “As compared to the competition, we have…

Ecuador Stefano Carló, general manager of Kronos Laboratories recently took over the reins of the family business his grandfather created in the 1960s. He elaborates on the company’s shift of focus away from the institutional market to focus on the private non-traditional market and maquila services and shares his plans of…