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India Top stories from Indian pharma including Dr Reddy’s move to US online platforms, Aspen/Serum Institute’s vaccine deal for Africa, Aurobindo’s USD 37.7 million investment in subsidiary CuraTeQ and Biocon’s FDA troubles.   Indian pharma market growth in August 12.1 percent (The Economic Times India) According to a study from the…

Global COVID-19 vaccines and treatments continue to make headline news and bring in huge revenues for sponsor companies, but Pharma Exec’s 2022 Top 50 Companies ranking suggests that many non-COVID products are once more driving big gains. Against the backdrop of an increasingly fraught geopolitical climate and patent landscape, the next…

Egypt Amgen’s country director for the ELI cluster (Egypt, Levant, and Iran), Ahmed Kishta, dives into the dynamics shaping the Egyptian market, Egypt’s Vision 2030 and how Amgen is contributing to the health of Egyptian patients.   The effort to transform healthcare in Egypt has been tremendous during the last 5-6…

Africa Lenias Hwenda of Medicines for Africa examines the true impact of access to medicine initiatives in Africa, noting that many of the measures takes are often cosmetic and leave a swathe of “impact bottlenecks” unaddressed. Hwenda calls for a more holistic approach, moving beyond simply bringing medicines to African countries…

GCC Talent and manpower are crucial elements in healthcare transformation, from trained clinicians to nurses, technical experts, and managers, but the GCC’s particularities create unique challenges in this regard. A full 50 percent of the region’s inhabitants are expatriates, a number that rises to 81 percent and 92 percent in Abu…

Korea SK Bioscience’s announcement that the first batch of its domestically developed COVID vaccine has been shipped may mark a significant milestone in South Korea’s journey towards greater vaccine self-sufficiency.   Back in October 2021, PharmaBoardroom ran through the leading Korean companies in the race to develop a homegrown vaccine against…

UAE Rémy Levastre leads professional services firm WSP’s healthcare advisory services in the Middle East. Drawing on a diverse set of professional experiences, Levastre evaluates the influx and impact of cutting-edge digital tools into healthcare in his region, the opportunities and barriers to creating excellence in Middle East healthcare, and WSP’s…

Italy Dr Nicola Normanno, the Director of the Translational Research Department of one of Italy’s national cancer institutes, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione G. Pascale, and president of the Italian Cancer Society explains Italy’s progress with next-generation sequencing (NGS) and the creation of molecular tumour boards. He also discusses the need…

Australia A roundup of some of the latest news from Australian pharma, including CSL’s unification of business units, a workers strike at Pfizer’s manufacturing plant, a new USD 173 million research centre, and a billionaire’s bet on biotech.   New $173M research centre for pandemic drug discovery (Endpoints News) In the…

Global AstraZeneca’s CEO Pascal Soriot warns that the new US legislation controlling drug prices would reduce innovators’ capacity to recover drug development investments and therefore discourage innovation, especially for drugs with smaller patient pools. In a Reuters interview last week Soriot said the law recently passed in the United States that would…

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…