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China Fangda Partners’ Josh Shin gives an overview of recent regulatory upgrades affecting the Chinese pharmaceutical industry.   On August 26, 2019, China enacted the Amended Drug Administration Law as part of its efforts to strengthen and streamline its regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. The amended law seeks to address prominent…

Hungary Hungary’s Minister of Finance Mihály Varga has repeatedly underlined the importance of the pharmaceutical industry to the country’s economy in recent weeks. With this strong governmental backing, pharma stands to increase its standing within the overall Hungarian economy.   Speaking at the inauguration of a new plant for Egis Pharmaceuticals…

Sweden Richard Wikner, country manager of Lundbeck Sweden, explains the affiliate’s strategic significance to the research-based company and its role in raising awareness about mental illnesses in the region, in addition to the company’s mission of striving to help patients return to their normal lives following depression.   [Sweden] still remains…

China Kevin Pan, CEO of Asieris, shares the origins behind the company’s distinctive name and how it reflects their ambition to bridge scientific discoveries and innovative medicines; their focus on genitourinary (GU) tumours and related disease because of the significant and oft-overlooked medical needs there; and the importance of building and…

Sweden Biotage, a Swedish company that specializes in separation technology, from analysis to industrial scale, and high-quality solutions for organic and analytical chemistry, has been a story of success since its creation in 1997. Upcoming CEO, Tomas Blomquist, provides insights into the company’s goal of becoming the market leader in separation…

Sweden Judith Love, country president Sweden and oncology general manager for the Nordics region for Novartis, underlines the need for a new reimbursement system for cell and gene therapies in the region and explains how the Nordics and Sweden can be a pioneer in this field, by initiating early dialogue between…

Sweden Region Skåne is the county council responsible for healthcare, public transport, business development, culture, infrastructure, and environmental issues in Skåne, Sweden. We sit down with Carl Johan Sonesson, chairman of the Executive Committee, who highlights his plan to dramatically reduce the waiting times in the region’s healthcare system, the importance…

Sweden In a market where revolutionary treatments and new technologies threaten to introduce structural changes, the need for national authorities and regulators to adapt and catch up with the pace of the industry is of uttermost importance. Dr Catarina Andersson Forsman, director general of the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA), shares…

USA The US drug-price watchdog, The Institute for Clinical & Economic Review (ICER) recently issued a “Report on Unsupported Price Increases,” picking a number of innovative medicines that it says have seen price hikes without sufficient substantiation. While the study made the headlines, Certara’s Ulrich Neumann calls for some scepticism and…

Sweden The Nordic headquarters of Danish medical dermatology specialist LEO Pharma sits in Sweden, led by the recently appointed Klaus Abel. Abel discusses the importance of Sweden to the global group, its ambitious goal of helping 125 million patients by 2025, and the leading role that the Nordics has to play…

Sweden Anders Wesslau, the newly appointed general manager for Merck KGaA’s business units in Sweden, underlines how Merck’s healthcare business is a well-integrated player in the innovative Swedish life sciences ecosystem, illustrates the company’s innovation partnerships with key research institutions, and how Merck is developing new technologies and solutions with key…

China Wang Wei of Winhealth Pharma, one of China’s leading contract development and commercialisation organisations, outlines the rationale behind the company’s formation, how its business model is changing to keep up with China’s rapidly evolving pharmaceutical industry, and his long-term vision for Winhealth.   Today, we consider ourselves the pioneers of…