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France The president of Gedeon Richter France and CEO of PregLem, a Swiss-based biotech company acquired by Gedeon Richter in 2010, discusses the exciting synergies that have emerged from this partnership in the past few years, her perspective on market access in France and the challenges and opportunities she has faced…

pharma The managing director of Adcock Ingram’s prescription business, Ashley Pearce highlights the division’s strategic placement within the group’s overall activities, and how he plans on leveraging partnerships with various multinationals, expand into biosimilars and grow the generics business into a market leading position. Adcock Ingram has undergone several strategic changes…

pharma Pierre Banzet, President of Group Synerlab, one of the top ten French CMOs, discusses his group’s ambitious European expansion strategy, driven by their specialties in multi-dose, preservative-free eye drops, generics, medical devices and hospital markets, and uniqueness in terms of its culture of customer service. He also discusses his perspective…

pharma The CEO and founder of ModiQuest discusses how, with its unique, fully-integrated antibody generation and development platform, the company is developing antibodies for potentially groundbreaking therapies for the prevention and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and growing its already well-established CRO arm serving clients from around the world. Could you introduce…

pharma The Netherlands provides a flourishing environment for biotech to grow. The vice president for European operations at Kite Pharma discusses how biotech start-ups can find their path to success and how Kite Pharma is looking at new innovative therapies for cancer treatment. Before joining T-Cell Factory, later acquired by Kite…

pharma Egypt is back in business, with economic growth and investor confidence in Egypt nearly back to levels seen in 2010, GDP growth up to four percent, and several high profile deals with multinationals. PharmaBoardroom spoke to Hisham A Fahmy, the CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce, about keeping Egypt…

Algeria Arnaud de Rincquesen – Managing Partner, Deloitte: Companies are willing to come to Algeria. It’s an interesting market. What matters once again is to have a job market. The biggest issue for a company settling in Algeria is to find peo- ple with specialized skills and a good academic level.…

Algeria PharmaBoardroom recently conducted a roundtable event with the key opinion leaders of Algeria’s healthcare sector. This is a sample of the conversation at our recent roundtable. Algeria’s youthful pharmaceutical landscape includes an array of state-controlled entities of an industrial or commercial nature alongside more conventional regulatory apparatus.  THE NATIONAL AGENCY FOR…

pharma Lygature is the new name of TI Pharma and CTMM, two internationally renowned public-private-partnerships turned non-for-profit partnership drivers. Managing Director Jorg Janssen explains that it will be business as usual for the merged organization, but with more opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations than ever before. Lygature drives partnerships for the development of…

pharma  Pfizer Global Established Products’ BU Head and  Hospira’s Director of Institutional Affairs tell us about Pfizer’s recent major acquisition of Hospira, their post-merger strategy for increasing market access, as well as the challenges faced by the French biosimilars market and what Pfizer-Hospira is doing to achieve the huge potential in…

Pharma The general manager of Drogsan, Ersan Kuçuk elaborates on the company’s efforts in shifting towards more value-added pharmaceutical products, specifically within the realm of biosimilars, while highlighting his ambitions in expanding the company’s presence within OTC. He also illustrates the decision to move Drogsan’s R&D department to the Gazi University…

Pharma Maribel Rodríguez-Torres of Fundación de Investigación assesses the current R&D situation in Puerto Rico, explains the activities of the center as well as some of their most important success stories. The Fundación is Puerto Rico’s largest research center and the only Phase 1 research clinical trials unit in Latin America and the Caribbean. What is your assessment…