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India Raghuveer Kini, executive director of the Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) provides insights into the key success factors that have allowed India to become the world’s pharmaceutical hub and gives us his assessment of the recent plateauing of Indian exports as well as an overview of the new…

Portugal Oscar Gaspar, VP of the Confederation of Portuguese Industry (CIP), president of the Portuguese Association of Private Hospitalization and former secretary of state for health (2009-2011), provides an informative insight into the state of Portugal’s healthcare system. Through compelling suggestions and observations on the current system, Gaspar sheds light on…

India In this exclusive interview, Binish Chudgar, vice-chairman and managing director of Intas, the largest privately-owned Indian pharmaceutical company with sales of over USD 1.7 billion during the last financial year, provides insights into the company’s growth model and M&A approach, as well as his objectives with regards to a large-scale…

Portugal Portugal’s Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, details his plan to bring Portuguese scientific and business practices above European averages. Collaboration across industries, increased public and private investment into R&D and innovative global projects will pave the way for Portugal’s progression in Europe. Can you please outline…

Portugal Salvador Lopez saw an opportunity in the summer of 2015 to create the first Portuguese affiliate for Mundipharma. Three years on, he reveals how their business model, company culture and leadership has succeeded in disrupting the respiratory market with their blockbuster drug Flutiform, built the fastest growing subsidiary in Portugal…

Portugal Laurent Marionnet, director general of the French Chamber of Commerce in Portugal provides an overview of the Chamber’s activities, an intriguing insight into Portuguese success citing geopolitical factors and cultural specifics and emphasizes the impact French SMEs are having on the Portuguese economy. Can you please provide us with an…

Portugal Jose Aranda da Silva, the first President of INFARMED and an expert on the Portuguese healthcare sector, comments on the successes of the sector since the crisis and how SiNATS (National System of Health Technology Assessment) is only the start. In addition, he stresses the importance of market access and…

Portugal The iMM (Instituto de Medicina Molecular) is a leading Portuguese private non-profit research institute that offers a vibrant scientific environment, aiming to nurture innovative ideas in basic, clinical and translational biomedical research. Maria Mota approaches her fifth year of leadership at IMM, where she has made it her intention to emphasize…

Portugal ARSLVT exists to make sure that people living in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley have access to quality health care, adapting the resources available to the region’s health needs and complying with and enforcing the National Health Plan. Luis Pisco is confident in Portugal’s development as a healthy nation, and…

Portugal Maria-Ceu Machado, president of INFARMED the National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, stresses the importance of healthcare restructuring and streamlining work practices in Portugal. In her first year as president, Maria and her team have brought in new rules on medicine approval times, confronted challenges in the reference pricing…

Poland Tomasz Dzitko, founder and CEO of Delfarma, Poland’s leading parallel importer, gives an overview of the sector in Poland and its impact on the healthcare ecosystem, as well as the space for growth in the future, especially via the reimbursement of parallel imported products. Furthermore, he touches on the relationship…

Poland Colm Murphy, general plant manager of Anpharm, a key European production site for the Servier group, highlights major investments in recent years, such as the state-of-the-art QC Lab, and his strategy to increase the plant’s exports. Additionally, he discusses the growing importance of the company’s CDMO activities and the steps…