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Financial Management YFY Biotech Management Company has not always been involved in the biotech sector. How has it evolved over the years? Yuen Foong Yu Group originally began as a paper mill company, which grew alongside Taiwan as the country moved from agriculture to industry. In moving away from its traditional business…

Generics Dr. Chen, you joined US-based Anchen Pharmaceuticals in 2009 to help the company form a spin-off in Taiwan. Why did a US-based company look to establish itself in Taiwan, and then export back to the US? In my view, the US is not a very attractive environment for a company…

APAC Region PAREXEL has been in Asia Pacific (APAC) since the company entered Japan in 1995. It chose Taiwan as its regional base of operations with the 2007 acquisition of APEX, a company you founded in 1999. Today, does Taiwan continue to make sense as PAREXEL’s APAC headquarters? We believe that it…

Industrial Biotech Prior to joining Life Sciences Ontario (LSO), you served as CEO of GSK Canada for a number of years. What opportunities did you see in making the switch from an MNC to an association? Having been in the pharmaceutical business for my entire career in Canada, I have always been…

Clinical trials The President & CEO of Vita Genomics talks about the advantages that genomic testing offer both to sick and healthy patients, as well as the opportunities to catalogue the science behind Traditional Chinese Medicine. What is the vision behind Vita Genomics? Vita Genomics was founded in 2001. At the time,…

Biotech City The director of Biotech City in Laval, close to Montreal, discusses the advantages brought on by the cluster effect, and how this has played out at Biotech City, a government funded cluster of 80 companies and over 5,000 employees.  Your background has a strong focus on business start-ups and development,…

Government Regulation An interesting perspective on the Canadian market, and its opportunities and challenges in drug registration on a regional level from the President of Triton Pharma, a company dedicated to bringing unique drugs into the country in the areas of women’s health, dermatology and urology.   What have been some of…

Contract Manufacturing Lilly set up in Ireland three decades ago by purchasing a farm. In its early days, the operation produced intermediaries for small-molecule drugs. Nearby, Pfizer was manufacturing citric acid for soft drinks. The country was a fledgling industrial economy that was still mostly reliant on sectors like agriculture and fishing.…

government relations In Taiwan, GSK recently signed Memorandum of Understanding with the National Research Program of Biopharmaceuticals (NRPB), building on research partnerships in Taiwan that include a 2007 agreement with National Taiwan University Hospital (NTU)—the first agreement of its kind—a later MoU with Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and a major 2012 collaboration…

Italy Sicily plays a major role in a plethora of gangster stories, whether real or fictional; the initiated also know that it is the land of incredibly well preserved Greco-Roman sights and excellent food and wine. Fewer, however, are aware that the Italian island more recently gave birth to outstanding pharmaceutical…

CiToxLAB Scantox After working in this company for 11 years (since 2002), can you please introduce our readers to CiToxLAB Scantox? Scantox was founded in Demark as a private Danish company in 1977 and has since gone through different stages. For instance, in the mid-2000s the decision was taken that Scantox needed…

Array   An in-depth viewpoint on the current taxation situation for pharmaceutical companies operating in Belgium today, looking at incentive programs and relative positioning in Europe. Mr Eynatten, can you please provide our readers with an overview of the value added services that Deloitte offers to the life sciences industry in…