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Global As the focus of the global COVID-19 pandemic response shifts downstream from the development and production of vaccines to vaccination campaigns themselves, IFPMA Director-General Thomas Cueni lays out the biopharmaceutical industry’s three new overarching priorities: supporting country readiness, contributing to equitable distribution, and driving innovation.   From the early days…

UK Oxford Nanopore hogged the UK biotech headlines in 2021, raising GBP 195 million in a single venture capital round – the year’s largest – and scoring a GBP 350 million listing on the London Stock Exchange, according to new data from the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) and Clarivate. See below…

China A selection of recent top stories from the Chinese pharma industry, including China’s conditional approval of Pfizer’s COVID treatment pill Paxlovid; a new push to combat monopoly practices and unfair competition in the domestic industry; and US FDA concerns about the applicability of Chinese clinical trial results for the US…

Spain As Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, became the latest leader to call for COVID-19 to be treated as an endemic illness like the flu, regional health authorities warn that it might be too soon, going as far as calling it a “serious mistake,” an opinion echoed by the World Health…

Asia-Pacific Stewart Campbell, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, West Pharmaceutical Services, highlights how the drug containment and delivery system industry is evolving to meet the rapidly changing needs of Asian biopharma; West’s crucial role in the fight against COVID-19 and how it met surging demands for injectable packaging in…

Global Over two years since the first cases of COVID-19, the world is still coming to terms with the virus. While vaccines have been developed and rolled out in record time in high-income countries, the developing world risks falling behind. Less than ten percent of the African continent has been vaccinated,…

China PPC China’s Sophia Duan, writing in the January edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, details how the emergence of an effective pharmacovigilance ecosystem is helping to safeguard the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in China.   Since the breakout of COVID-19, many pharmaceutical companies in China have worked to develop preventative…

Asia-Pacific Stewart Campbell, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, West Pharmaceutical Services, highlights how the drug containment and delivery system industry is evolving to meet the rapidly changing needs of Asian biopharma; West’s crucial role in the fight against COVID-19 and how it met surging demands for injectable packaging in…

Saudi Arabia Jean Paul Scheuer, General Manager for Sanofi Genzyme and MCO Lead for Greater Gulf, highlights the company’s expanding footprint in the region, the organizational changes brought about by global CEO Paul Hudson, and how Sanofi has managed to launch 20 new products in the last year. Sanofi has been quick…

Saudi Arabia SaudiVax intends to be the premier developer, manufacturer, and supplier of vaccines and biologics in Saudi Arabia and the MENA region, including halal vaccines. Co-Founder and Managing Director Professor Mazen Hassanain comments on the company’s ambitions, the opportunity that halal vaccines represent, how its J&J partnership will create the first…

Spain mAbxience’s CEO Emmanuelle Lepine highlights the company’s international expansion into highly regulated markets, new investment into its Spanish manufacturing facility, and its partnership with AstraZeneca on COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in Argentina. As representatives from the US FDA carried out a Good Clinical Practice inspection in an adjacent office, Lepine outlined…

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia’s response to COVID-19 stands up well to international comparisons in both the MENA region and globally. In recent conversation with PharmaBoardroom, Fahad Al Shebel, CEO of national medicine procurement body NUPCO, outlines some of the fundamentals behind this success story.   Extreme, But Effective, Measures Saudi Arabia took…