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Morocco Looking back on 11 years of business experience in Morocco, Jean-Charles Damblin of the country’s French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) is more optimistic than ever about the business opportunities that Morocco presents. Although the USA recently overtook France as Morocco’s largest foreign investor, Damblin suggests that there are…

Morocco Women’s health specialist Versalya enjoyed a resurgent 2022 in Morocco under the leadership of Sofia Lahlou. She explains some of the key trends in the Moroccan women’s health space, how the company is supporting the healthcare transformation underway in the country, and her approach to talent attraction and retention.  …

Morocco Driss Chaoui outlines recent milestones in Afric-Phar’s over 50-year history, including the launch of its first in-house developed generic, and discusses the firm’s unique focus on orphan and rare diseases and the challenges facing the field in Morocco. He also reviews the opportunities presented by the transformation of Morocco’s regulatory…

Global The speed with which Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines were brought forward may have made the mRNA technology behind them appear novel. In fact, the pioneers whose discoveries enabled the creation of these vaccines, recent Nobel prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, had been working on the mRNA and…

Morocco Three years on from his last PharmaBoardroom interview, Karim Lahlou highlights the evolution of Moroccan pharma manufacturer Iberma as it expands its activities from solely in-licensing to developing and selling its own products, growing its global partnership base, and looking to penetrate international markets while leveraging the growing reputation of…

France France’s life sciences industry is falling behind its European neighbours, its growth deeply hampered, the French life sciences think tank G5 Santé claims, by abusive paybacks. While the government has demonstrated its willingness to take steps towards levelling its pricing barometers and in so doing tackle medicine shortages and build…

Australia Richard Day of the University of New South Wales, writing in the October 2023 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, looks at updates to the health technology assessment (HTA) processes in Australia and New Zealand   In April 2023, the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care launched an independent Health…

Morocco Merck Morocco’s Ahmad ALMWAKEH feels that the winds of change are blowing in the right direction across Moroccan healthcare, with a well-defined national strategy in place to expand coverage to more of the population than ever before. Merck is well-placed to support this transition as the market leader in therapeutic…

Morocco Camilia Benani, recently promoted to partner at DLA Piper’s Casablanca office, explains why the Moroccan healthcare sector has become a lightning rod for M&A activity in recent years. Drawing on her experience advising many of the organisations involved in these deals, Benani touches on the evolution of deal structuring in…

Global New methodology for the 2024 Access to Medicine Index promises a stronger attempt to quantify whether drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics are actually making it all the way to patients in poorer countries around the world.   Industry stakeholders eagerly await the biennial publication of the Access to Medicine Index, a…

Morocco DHL’s Tina Manoukian lays out how the global logistics giant helped ensure the safe and timely distribution of medicines and vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, outlines the scope and scale of DHL operations in Morocco, and explains why the country is well positioned to become a distribution and logistics hub…

Morocco Wafaa Farhat Agoumi serves as DG of the Health Engineering and Project Management Graduate School (ESISMP) in Casablanca, Morocco, as well as president of the African Association for Clinical Research (AARC). Agoumi gives an overview of her current work areas of focus, the evolution of clinical research in Morocco and…