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Mexico Mexico, with the second largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America, has a number of strong local pharma industry players. These companies, no longer focused solely on the domestic market, are extending their footprint into LatAm. Grupo Sanfer/Hormona Mexico has already taken up positions across the region.   Laboratorios Sanfer, founded…

USA Reflecting on a transformational decade at the helm of the Drug Information Association (DIA), Barbara Lopez Kunz highlights some of the key achievements and most significant trends that have emerged during her tenure. Lopez Kunz points to the DIA’s evolution into a truly global knowledge-sharing platform, the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact…

China Accestra Consulting’s Zhao Lu* looks back on a year in which China’s Center for Disease Evaluation (CDE) rejected a record-breaking number of drug applications, explores some of the main reasons behind these rejections, and suggests how applicants can avoid them in future.   In 2021, China’s Center for Disease Evaluation…

Egypt First founded in 2019 as a new regulatory body independent from Egypt’s Ministry of Health, the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) has made significant progress over the last three years. Now recognised as one of the MEA region’s leading regulators, the EDA can point to several notable successes in Egypt’s battle…

Spain What major regulatory trends are emerging in Europe and in Spain? As one of the founding partners of a law firm focused uniquely on the life sciences industry, Faus & Moliner Abogados, Jordi Faus has been confronting the industry’s unique legal issues for over 25 years. In a recent PharmaBoardroom…

Greece In Greece, both innovators and the generics industry find fault with the country’s rebates and clawbacks system, a hold over cost-containment measure from the country’s period of extreme economic turmoil. In conversation with PharmaBoardroom, Michael Himonas, GM of the Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE) and Faye Kosmopolou, GM of…

Americas In 2019 the pharma industry financed some 700 clinical studies in Latin America with investments of more than USD one billion and according to FIFARMA, the leading association of innovators in the region, LatAm currently supports about 10 percent of the world’s clinical research. Local industry leaders discuss the advantages…

Egypt Neeraj Mishra of Alameda Healthcare, the largest private healthcare organisation in Egypt, outlines the organisation’s strategy for Egypt and Africa, how – as a provider of private hospitals – it fits into Egypt’s public healthcare transformation plans, as well as its work on digitalisation.   The opportunity is huge for…

Taiwan The latest pharma news from Taiwan, including Gongwin-KY’s lung cancer drug approval in China, Anxo Pharmaceutical/Genovior Biotech alliance, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Metagone Biotech’s glaucoma and macular degeneration drug development, and Ever Supreme Bio Technology’s cell therapy progress.   New Gongwin-KY lung cancer drug cleared for marketing…

Egypt The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent struggle to obtain vaccines shone a harsh light on Africa’s reliance on pharma exports. As a McKinsey study notes, there were only around 375 pharmaceutical manufacturers in Africa in 2019, compared to 5,000 in China and 10,500 in India. However, some of the continent’s…

Egypt AbbVie’s GM for Egypt & Levant, Ali Sleiman, explains the factors behind the stellar growth that has made the cluster one of the company’s fastest-growing global markets in 2021. He also discusses the favourable environment created by Egypt’s healthcare reforms and how they have quickened regulatory approvals and access, leading…

Mexico Dagoberto Cortés Cervantes, president of Mexico’s National Association of Medicines Manufacturers (ANAFAM) and director of Grupo Sanfer/Hormona Mexico, outlines the expansion strategy that has led the manufacturing group to extend its presence beyond Mexico into the broader LatAm region and the importance of the “Alianza del Pacifico”  trade agreement linking…