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Global Dr Matt Linley, senior director for analytics and forecasting at predictive health analytics firm Airfinity, looks ahead to a potentially game-changing year in the fight against respiratory synctial virus (RSV), which has seen a major spike in cases this winter. Linley assesses the potential impact of some major new treatments…

Global With the global market for generic drugs expected to reach USD 36.4 billion by 2027 and grow at a CAGR of 5.6 percent over the period 2020-2027, it is not surprising that a number of generics producers continue to rank among the world’s top pharma companies. A look at the…

Global During the COVID-19 pandemic discussions around increasing access to medicines for low and middle-income countries (LMICs) were often centred on compulsory licensing. As a result, pharma companies were up in arms about protecting the intellectual property (IP) of their innovative medicines. But there is an alternative, says Charles Gore from…

MEA The healthcare and life sciences industry is well represented in Forbes Middle East’s 100 Most Powerful Businesswomen 2023 list alongside sectors such as banking, investments, and retail. In a region that is making some important advances in diversity, equity and inclusion, these five women – including two former PharmaBoardroom interviewees…

Belgium A roundup of some of the biggest pharma news from Belgium including Neuraxpharm’s new Belgian affiliate, Novalis Biotech’s investment in Rarity Bioscience, Catalent’s plasmid DNA manufacturing site and a recent study on the country’s clinical trial footprint.   Neuraxpharm completes its presence in Benelux by opening an affiliate in Brussels…

LatAm Sarah Aiosa oversees the entire Latin America region for MSD, where the global giant is looking to build on its 100-year legacy by better addressing the continent’s health inequities and unmet medical needs. Aiosa describes the myriad public-private partnerships that the firm has struck in LatAm across areas including cancer…

Global The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) is a United Nations-backed public health organisation working to increase access to, and facilitate the development of, life-saving medicines for low- and middle-income countries. Executive Director Charles Gore outlines the MPP’s goals, how it interacts with an industry – innovative pharma – known to jealously…

China A roundup of some of the biggest pharma and biotech news from China including the approval of two domestically developed COVID treatments; Daewoong’s idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis licensing deal, Roche’s gastric cancer partnership with CARsgen; Sino Biopharm’s continued attempt to buyout of F-star Therapeutics and Takeda’s deal with Hutchmed for a…

Chile Korean biotech SK Bioscience, known for bringing forward the first South Korean-developed COVID-19 vaccine, is pursuing its beyond-COVID growth strategy with a new green light for its SKYCellflu vaccine. The recent approval by Chile’s Instituto de Salud Publica follows nine others and is the first in the Latin America region.…

South Africa Roughly half of Africa’s 1.1 billion people lack regular access to even the most essential medicines and most of Sub-Saharan Africa depends on imports which make up as much as 70 to 90 percent of the medicines consumed there. As the COVID-19 pandemic further demonstrated this dependence and the vulnerability…

CEE Some of the most important stories emanating from the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region’s pharma industry, including Polpharma’s bid for Zentiva, Richter’s acquisition of OC Distributors and MDD approval in the US, Hungary’s windfall tax on pharma, Presage’s collaboration with Pure Biologics and Lithuania’s biotech ambitions.   Polpharma working…

Taiwan In just 35 years, Taiwan has gone from having no biotechs on the TAIEX and Taiwan OTC stock exchanges to 124 listed firms with a combined market capitalization of more than USD 30 billion by 2020, as the below chart from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace shows. In 2019,…