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Taiwan The latest pharma news from Taiwan, including Gongwin-KY’s lung cancer drug approval in China, Anxo Pharmaceutical/Genovior Biotech alliance, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Metagone Biotech’s glaucoma and macular degeneration drug development, and Ever Supreme Bio Technology’s cell therapy progress.   New Gongwin-KY lung cancer drug cleared for marketing…

UK Pricing and market access have become increasingly hot topics in recent years, as healthcare systems across the world attempt to balance their own financial sustainability with securing the latest medical innovations and the premium costs associated with them. Health inequity and access disparities exist between both rich and developing countries,…

Sweden Svante Paabo has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his ground-breaking work in paleogenetics. Paabo’s research – which includes sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal for the first time – has wide-ranging implications for the study of human evolution, as well as in the development of…

China Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the vagaries of the country’s restrictive ‘dynamic zero COVID’ policy, the Chinese pharmaceutical industry is expected to continue its remarkable trajectory up to 2025 with annual growth of 9.4 percent. Read on for five key trends to watch out for in the…

Italy Seasoned executive Pierluigi Antonelli went from a career in big pharma to Angelini Pharma, a midsized Italian company that has been undergoing major transformation. He shares the motivation behind the move and the main components of the company’s transformational journey.   Rather than continue on the perhaps easier path he…

Egypt Roche Pharma General Manager in Egypt Mohamed Swilam shares his experience implementing a new operational model that is “challenging the status quo” of the pharma industry. He also explains the changing dynamics of the Egyptian pharma market – the fastest growing in the Middle East and Africa region – and…

Indonesia Takeda gets a first approval for QDENGA, its dengue vaccine, which has been given the green light by the Indonesian National Agency for Drug and Food Control, Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (BPOM), making it the only dengue vaccine approved in the country for use in individuals aged 6 to…

Italy Tiziana Mele, managing director of Lundbeck Italia, explains the impact of COVID on mental health care from the perspective of a company dedicated to brain health, outlines the Italian operation that includes both  commercial and production capacities and shares Lundbeck’s support of independent clinical trials in the country. At Lundbeck,…

Europe Pierre Meulien, Executive Director- Innovative Health Initiative, presents the public-private joint undertaking that boasts a total budget of EUR 2.4 billion and aims to build on the work of the Innovative Medicines Initiative to boost collaboration between the European pharmaceutical and related industries and the European Commission.   The Innovative…

Egypt The head of the Pharmaceutical Chamber of the Federation of Egyptian Industries, Gamal El-Leithy, shares his view on the positive developments driving the growth of Egypt’s pharma market, including the creation of an independent regulatory body and a procurement agency. In addition, he analyses the country’s response to the COVID-19…

Egypt The head of the Egyptian Unified Procurement Authority (UPA), Major General Doctor Bahaa El Din Zeidan, outlines the agency’s view on tenders, emphasizing their vision to secure the highest quality at the best price for Egyptian patients, and analyses the country’s healthcare transformation. In addition, he argues in favour of…

Global Merck Group’s Vice President Global Market Access & Pricing Strategic Planning, Marco Rauland, takes a look at recent advancements in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and how these technologies can offer a sophisticated and flexible approach not only to predicting drug pricing, but also to estimating market access with different…