Tagged with science

QuantiLAB After recently signing a service level agreement with Mérieux NutriSciences in May 2015, Bertrand Baudot, Managing Director of QuantiLAB explains the company’s plans for the future. He also discusses the challenges and, more importantly, highlights the various opportunities in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector on Mauritius. In its first…

pharma Luis Alemañy came to American Tools, Inc. as general manager in 2014 following a career largely focused on multinationals. He talks about the company’s new direction and their large international client base that has come about as a result of over 40 years of high-quality sheet metal manufacturing primarily for…

Pharma The CEO of Diaxonhit Group, a fully integrated French leader in in vitro diagnostics, discusses the company’s strategic focus on specialty vitro diagnostics, his perspective on the challenge of consolidation that the diagnostics industry faces, as well as his cautiously optimistic assessment of  French competitiveness in the pharmaceutical and life…

Pharma Pedro Tejada of Right Way Environmental introduces the environmental and life science markets in Puerto Rico and elaborates on the challenges that the company faces. What were the main reasons for the establishment of Right Way Environmental? I have worked in the environmental field since 1983. In 1995, my wife and…

Francisco Arteaga-Martínez Francisco Arteaga-Martínez founded Caribbean Project Management (CPM) in 1991. Since then, the company has expanded considerably, with a presence now in Florida and Panama as a leading Puerto Rican construction management provider. He discusses the history, growth and key assets of the company. What were your intentions behind starting CPM?…

France Ultimate Solutions Corp is a leading packaging solutions provider for the life sciences industry in Puerto Rico. Yoel Rivera, president of Ultimate Solutions, discusses new inventions the company is designing and their great potential for the healthcare industry. What was the motivation for creating Ultimate Solutions, and how did you…

France The Head of the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Health Science at the University of Cape Town reveals how their role is not only in training people to be technically competent, but to produce the next generation of thinkers, researchers and innovators, how The Lancet report, produced by…

pharma CEO of Pantarhei since its inception in 2001, Herjan Coelingh Bennink outlines the company’s vision to develop new applications for existing compounds in the fields of women’s health and oncology with therapies with real medical advantages including a contraceptive pill which does not increase the risk of thrombosis and improved…

pharma The CEO of BioConnection, the leading contract services and manufacturing organization for the development and production of injectable (bio)pharmaceutical products, explains how —thanks to flexibility and quality-driven mentality —the company helps small and medium biotech companies and universities make their products reality. This year BioConnection celebrates its tenth anniversary and…

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 Hans Schikan offers insights into the flourishing Dutch life sciences sector and the attractiveness of the local eco-system, citing a combination of the right science and the right attitude of people as the key formula for success. In 2014/2015, three Dutch biotechs (UniQure, ProQR, Galapagos) went public on Nasdaq, and…

Pharma The Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking of the Mauritius Commercial Bank explains why the diversification of the Mauritian economy into the healthcare and life sciences sector is necessary and why it will be successful. Furthermore, he specifies the factors that make Mauritius one of the best FDI (Foreign Direct…