Tagged with Clinical Trials

Switzerland Switzerland is a crucial country for MSD’s global network, employing over 1000 people in local, regional, and global functions across four sites in Lucerne and a newly opened site in Zurich specialising in R&D, data management, and commercialisation. With 25 ongoing clinical trials per year, Switzerland is an important country…

Switzerland Clinerion, a leader in real-world data solutions, is helping bring medical data informatics to the life sciences industry. CEO Barış Erdoğan explains how the company is creating and applying technology to significantly reduce the drug development timeline. Clinerion uses Big Data analytics technologies to help hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and research…

Norway Christian Probst gives an overview of GSK Norway’s broad portfolio, market access hurdles, and the importance of bringing clinical trials back to Norway. Probst also touches on how the country’s impressive digital footprint can be better leveraged and GSK’s role in Norway as one of the world’s leading vaccine companies.…

USA In a recent article for PharmaBoardroom, Objective Capital’s David Crean took a look at the state of US innovation today and its long term sustainability. See below for data on the share of US executives who see innovation as a top priority post-COVID, Global Public Equity Issuance for the Biopharmaceutical…

China The collaboration between BioNTech and Pfizer on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate based on mRNA technology continues apace, with hopes for an emergency approval in late-2019. In China, home to 1.4 billion people, BioNTech is leveraging the expertise of domestic firm Fosun Pharma for trials and commercialisation of another vaccine candidate,…

Norway Karita Bekkemellem of Norwegian pharma association LMI highlights her work building up the profile of the industry in Norway, the market access and pricing challenges facing her member companies, and the country’s enduring potential as a leading clinical trial destination.   Through diligent and long-term thinking, and building bridges and…

Norway Norway, more well-known internationally as an innovation hub for oil & gas and marine biology, is attempting to reverse the trend of reducing numbers of clinical trials and cultivate a domestic healthcare research industry. Drawing on the country’s comprehensive health registries, universal healthcare system, links with its Nordic neighbours, and…

Europe A selection of data on the Nordic pharma markets (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), including market value, R&D spend, production, exports and imports, employment, generics penetration, and healthcare spending based on 2020 data from the EFPIA.    Sweden is the largest pharma market in the region, boasting a market…

Belgium Fluidda is the world leader in the field of functional respiratory imaging which combines HRCT scans and computational fluid dynamics technology. CEO Jan de Backer outlines the major developments of the Belgian firm’s recent history including expansion into the US, how a USD ten million injection of Series A financing…

Brazil In the race to develop the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine, Brazil – now one of the world’s worst-affected countries – is becoming an attractive clinical trial destination for biopharma companies that heading into phase III trials. Chinese firm Sinovac recently received regulatory approval to test its vaccine candidate in Brazil…

Korea Dr Jeong-Sun Seo, chairman of Macrogen & president of the Korea Biotechnology Industry Organization (KoreaBIO), explains the basis for Korea’s success in combating the spread of COVID-19, casts light on the future role of precision medicine, and the current hurdles impeding its widespread adoption.   The pandemic, while tragic, has…

South Africa Below is a roundup of latest news from South Africa’s life sciences and healthcare industries, including a call to overhaul patent laws to allow better access to COVID-19 drugs, innovation for HIV and TB medication adherence, COVID-19 vaccine trials, gut microbiome testing and supply chain lessons from the pandemic.  …