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France Abbvie France’s Pierre-Claude Fumoleau outlines his strategic priorities for the affiliate, AbbVie’s unique corporate culture and ethos, and how he envisions upcoming regulatory reforms playing out in France.   We are still a very young company… and that means that we are still very much in the process of constructing…

France Denis Delval, CEO of iconic French pharma firm LFB since December 2017, discusses his key priorities to build the new LFB.   My vision is that we should be strong enough to assume a leadership position in any space that we seek to participate in During his two terms at…

France Biotest’s Olivier Samama outlines the changes that the takeover of the company has had on the French affiliate, the country’s plasma market and pricing policy.   The product offering remains essentially the same, but we have experienced rapid double-digit growth in the last 3 years in viral infectious disease after…

France Edouard Bieth, managing director of Tillotts Pharma in France, discusses the opportunities and challenges of opening an affiliate in the country and the uniqueness of Tillotts’ specialization in gastrointestinal drugs.   Tillotts France may be young but the expertise within GI has been established on a global scale over decades…

France The healthcare and life sciences industries, as they become more advanced and complex, increasingly require government involvement to ensure clinical compliance, ethical behaviour and the well-being of the nation. The health sector is subject to mounting regulatory pressures meaning politics must play a key role. As we advance more and more in healthcare…

France Arnaud Gobet, president of Innothera, discusses how the company balances its unique and diverse offering of medical devices, hygiene and protection products and pharmaceuticals, Innothera’s burgeoning international footprint and the condition of France’s industrial environment.   In the long term, we see the suppression of the ISF (solidarity tax on…

France Josephine Yang Comiskey, president of GSK France, gives insights into GSK’s corporate culture, portfolio and priorities in France. She also highlights the need for collaboration and a better dialogue between industry and authorities, to ensure quicker market access for innovative products in the country.   We welcome the fact that…

France Pierre Banzet, CEO of French CDMO Groupe SYNERLAB, shares how the group has developed over the past three years and discloses his strategy for generating specialty production knowledge as well as expanding the company’s footprint within Europe. Banzet also offers his assessment of key CDMO trends and the current condition…

France On February 4 in Paris, Minister of Health and Solidarity Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal, Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance Agnès Pannier-Runacher, and President of the Healthcare Industry Strategic Committee (CSF) and Chairman of the French Federation of Health…

France Stéphane Mathieu CEO for SIGVARIS GROUP’s Europe, South & West operations, discusses taking on a unique challenge as the company pivots towards becoming a fully-fledged health technology provider, and what ‘patient-centricity’ means to him.   The onus is firmly upon medtech players to become much more “patient-centric” in both their…

France Frank Margain, chairman of Paris Region Entreprises, the ‘Invest in Paris Region’ promotion agency, discusses the importance of the life sciences sector for the Paris Region (Ile-de-France in French) and shares how the region is going through a key developmental period in attractivity, digitalization, and infrastructure investment.   Previously, many…

France Emmanuelle Quilès, CEO of Janssen France, speaks about how she joined the American multinational with the ambition to bring digitalization and transform the organization from the inside. Quilès goes on to cover the operational specifics of the affiliate and shares her insights on the French pharma ecosystem.   When I…