Tagged with Therapy

Korea Dr BG Rhee, CEO of SCM Lifescience discusses their patented proprietary subfraction technology to extract high purity cell cultures, and the impact this will have on the efficacy, cell differentiation ability, and cost of stem cell treatments. Dr Rhee also provides his assessment of the regulatory framework for stem cells…

Korea Sunyoung Kim, CEO and founder of ViroMed, reveals his strategy for conquering the US market and the feasibility of his ambitions for ViroMed to become the biotech company with the largest revenues from gene therapy by 2025. He also discusses the areas within the Korean biotech sphere that must develop…

France Genethon, a laboratory created by the patient organization AFM-Telethon, is one of the world’s leaders in the development of biotherapies for rare diseases. In this interview Genethon’s CEO Frédéric Revah explains its role in the discovery of innovative therapies since the 1990s and the recent launch of YposKesi, its innovative…

Algeria Mourad Belkheyar, acting director general of Varian Healthcare Algeria lifts the lid on the progress Algeria has made in its quest to bring the most advanced radiotherapies to Algeria. He discusses the critical role of Varian healthcare in training engineers, operating, and maintaining such complex machinery, to improve the prognosis…

UK A spinout from the Roslin Institute that created Dolly the Sheep, Roslin CT is a cell and gene therapy CDMO, with a unique positioning in the field today. Its CEO, Janet Downie, presents the company’s expansion plans and talks about new areas worth pursuing as well as the advantages of…

Cancer Novartis receives NHS approval for their CAR T-cell therapy to treat leukaemia in children, 10 days after receiving European Commission (EC) approval. “It’s fantastic news for children and young people with this form of leukaemia.” Prof Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK’s Dubbed as the future of cancer therapy, Kymriah, Novartis’ gene-modifying treatment…

UK Keith Thompson, CEO of the Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult, one of a number of Catapult institutions in the UK designed to help commercialize innovative research, discusses strategy, funding, international collaboration and Brexit.     Most likely, the UK is the best environment for putting forward trials that are properly…

Taiwan Ken-Shwo Dai, president and CEO of Visgeneer, explains his biotech’s expertise in medtech, skincare, gene therapy and diagnostics, as well as his plans to take the company public. Can you introduce yourself and Visgeneer to our readers? What have been the main milestones for the company so far? “Visgeneer believes that…

Taiwan Frank Douglas, CEO of the TheVax, discusses what he finds so inspiring about innovation in resource-constrained environments, and this Taiwanese biotech’s revolutionary SIT specific immunotherapy platform. The company was founded in 2012 with the mission to focus on the use of immunotherapy to address virus-induced tumors and infections in patients.…

Taiwan Jonas Wang Ph.D., Chairman and CEO of StemCyte, a global leader in Regenerative Therapy field including cell processing and transplantation located in the US, Taiwan, and India, provides us with an overview of the impressive phase II results recently received by its breakthrough regenerative therapy for spinal cord injury. While…

Pharma The Managing Director of HUMAN BioPlazma, Ákos Tóth, highlights the transformational growth that the business has experienced since becoming a part of Kedrion Biopharma in 2008, while pinpointing the strategic role that the subsidiary now plays in producing and distributing the company’s lifesaving biotherapies both inside and outside of Hungary.…

Pharma Riccardo Palmisano, CEO of MolMed, discusses the latest developments for their late-stage clinical development products, and comments on the recent approval of Strimvelis, a gene therapy developed by GSK and MolMed. Can you please give our readers a brief rundown of the history of MolMed since its foundation in 1996?…