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Pharma Tuomo Pätsi, President of the EMEA region for Celgene, talks about marking the tenth anniversary of Switzerland as Celgene´s EMEA headquarters; reveals how their workforce has increased from a handful of individuals in 2006 to 700 in Switzerland and 2,300 across Europe today; and how Celgene’s continuous R&D investment distinguishes…

Healthcare Noel Lantin, President of Medicomm Pacific, discusses the company’s evolution from providing medical publishing information exclusively to healthcare professionals to now patients, pharmaceutical companies and others across the value chain. He also discusses the company’s innovative website, as well as future mobile application plans, and how they are tools to…

Pharma President of K8 Global and Senior Advisor to McKinsey, Jean-Luc Butel, explains the major healthcare trends impacting the Asia Pacific region and stresses the need for companies to disrupt current business models in order to effectively tackle the region’s growing burden of unmet needs. You have held several positions in…

Health This chart shows the varying levels of health literacy in Europe. Health literacy is a serious issue in Hungary where 19% of the population have ‘inadequate’ knowledge and 33% are rated as ‘problematic.’ Click here to read more articles and interviews from Hungary

Switzerland Prof. Dr. med. Adriano Aguzzi provides insight on the past, present, and future of prion and antibody therapy research in Switzerland. The Institute of Neuropathology works closely with the University Hospital of Zurich to conduct their research. He also touches on translating research to industry and his spinoff ImmunoQure, which…

Health Professor Jürg Utzinger of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) emphasizes the importance of partnerships and sharing information for improving population health locally, nationally, and internationally. He comments on Swiss innovation, the clinical trials conducted at Swiss TPH, and the current publicity around the Zika virus.   You…

Pharma Janssen Switzerland’s Ludo Ooms highlights the strengths of the Swiss healthcare and life sciences sector including the efficiency of the government, a productive and well trained workforce, the national pricing system, and the climate for innovation; all factors which make Switzerland a strategic market for Johnson & Johnson and Janssen.…

Pharma The following map shows the importance of the pharmaceutical industry to the highly regionalised Italian industry. Lombardy in the North of Italy employs 27,000 people in pharmaceuticals and is ranked number one for pharma and biotech firms. Click here to read more articles and interviews from Italy, and to download…

Novartis Novartis Czech Republic’s Heidrun Irschik explains the potentially game-changing ramifications of Big Data on the Czech pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.   The opportunities offered by big data are present and we need to tap into this immense potential Heidrun Irschik, Novartis Big data: a technological phenomenon with potential commensurate to…

Italy Italy’s traditional family-owned pharmaceutical companies are one of its greatest strengths; but these companies must be amenable to outside influence in order to grow sustainably. [There is] a lot of liquidity in the market, including amongst the family businesses … and there are now a lot of companies looking for…

Pharma The following chart shows the number of clinical trials in Italy per year. Peaking in 2008 and slumping slightly shortly after, the numbers have returned to robust levels with 550+ trials in total in 2013 and 250+ important Phase I and II trials. Click here to read more articles and…

Health Gabriel O’Shea, National Commissioner of Seguro Popular, on how the institute generates more efficient and transparent resource allocation across Mexico as the country prepares to implement medical service exchange among the various social security institutes. Beside this step towards universal health care in Mexico, he also reveals how Seguro Popular…