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Global The news is filled with stories of woe in the airline industry. Bags being lost, flights being cancelled, planes being stranded on the tarmac, hours – days even – spent stranded at airports waiting for services promised but never delivered. Both the airline and health sectors have been hit by…

Middle East & Africa Samir Khalil, executive director for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Middle East and Africa, touts the USD 1.1 trillion that its member companies have invested in R&D since 2000 and analyses the opportunities in Egypt as the country moves closer to implementing universal healthcare. In addition, he…

Indonesia Takeda gets a first approval for QDENGA, its dengue vaccine, which has been given the green light by the Indonesian National Agency for Drug and Food Control, Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (BPOM), making it the only dengue vaccine approved in the country for use in individuals aged 6 to…

Americas Boehringer Ingelheim’s managing director for South America, Dirk van Niekerk, provides an overview of the healthcare climate in South America, the challenges tied to political and economic instability, future opportunities in specialty care, and the company’s strategy to continue a decades-long legacy. With many new governments in the region, we…

Italy Tiziana Mele, managing director of Lundbeck Italia, explains the impact of COVID on mental health care from the perspective of a company dedicated to brain health, outlines the Italian operation that includes both  commercial and production capacities and shares Lundbeck’s support of independent clinical trials in the country. At Lundbeck,…

Europe Pierre Meulien, Executive Director- Innovative Health Initiative, presents the public-private joint undertaking that boasts a total budget of EUR 2.4 billion and aims to build on the work of the Innovative Medicines Initiative to boost collaboration between the European pharmaceutical and related industries and the European Commission.   The Innovative…

Middle East & Africa Apart from a maturing regulatory environment and the expansion of healthcare coverage across the region, a number of other factors are contributing to the evolution of the MEA pharma market. Results from the second wave of a PhRMA-commisioned IQVIA market access study covering Saudi Arabia (KSA), UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan,…

Global Merck has agreed to front USD 150 million for Orna Therapeutics’ new investigational class of engineered circular RNA (oRNA) therapies in a collaboration agreement that will also provide the biotech series B financing. This broad strategic collaboration brings together Merck’s significant expertise … with Orna’s compelling circular RNA technology to…

Egypt The head of the Pharmaceutical Chamber of the Federation of Egyptian Industries, Gamal El-Leithy, shares his view on the positive developments driving the growth of Egypt’s pharma market, including the creation of an independent regulatory body and a procurement agency. In addition, he analyses the country’s response to the COVID-19…

Global Sarah Pope Miksinski, executive director/CMS regulatory affairs, and Gregory Rullo, senior director regulatory affairs, at AstraZeneca discuss the need for common ground among regulators and industry when it comes to patient centricity and for strategic leadership to address differing regulatory control-strategy requirements. In today’s increasingly complex and intricate pharmaceutical landscape,…

Italy Guerbet’s Alessandro Bocci – General Manager Italy & Iberia – describes the nearly 100-year-old company’s firm position in the field of contrast media for radiology and its plans for developing a portfolio in artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, he outlines how the Italy, Spain and Portugal cluster made its way…

Egypt The head of the Egyptian Unified Procurement Authority (UPA), Major General Doctor Bahaa El Din Zeidan, outlines the agency’s view on tenders, emphasizing their vision to secure the highest quality at the best price for Egyptian patients, and analyses the country’s healthcare transformation. In addition, he argues in favour of…