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Spain Esteve’s CEO outlines the transformation journey of the Spanish company after taking over in 2018, commenting on how the divestment of its generics business has helped the company lay the foundation of a specialty pharma player in CNS, oncology and ophthalmology. Staffan Schüberg, former EVP and Chief Commercial Officer at…

UAE The Managing Director of Dubai Science Park (DSP), Marwan Abdulaziz Janahi, comments on Dubai’s success in becoming a regional hub for life sciences companies, the challenging reality of localizing high-tech manufacturing, and the move towards specialized centers of excellence within Dubai’s hospital infrastructure.   The community DSP is building comprises…

Japan A roundup of the latest news from Japanese pharma, including Kirin’s USD 870 million investment in its healthcare and pharmaceuticals businesses over the next three years, Sanofi’s world-first approval for its Niemann-Pick types A/B and B medicine in Japan, and the prospect of domestically developed COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out…

Spain Teva’s general manager for Spain and Portugal, Juan Carlos Conde Ibarra, dives into the recently announced strategy for the affiliate, including the move to a single brand in generics, and a bigger focus on specialty products, biologics and digitalization. In addition, he reflects on his 18 years with the company,…

Kenya Medicines for Africa’s Lenias Hwenda examines the significance of Moderna’s USD 500 million investment into African manufacturing, other agreements in place to boost manufacturing capacity on the continent, and why a more equally distributed global pharmaceutical manufacturing network is in the interest of the entire planet.   Many Africans welcome…

China Bridge Consulting’s Zoe Leung examines the journeys of Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines outside of China’s borders, drawing on a number of examples, from Sinopharm’s work on boosting vaccine supply in the UAE to Sinovac’s Egyptian and Chilean partnerships, CanSino’s steady progress in Pakistan and Mexico, and Zhifei Longcom’s Uzbek success.*  …

Global The top COVID-19 Vaccines by revenue in 2021 and sales projections for 2022 based on Airfinity’s COVID-19 Vaccine Market Revenue Forecast 2022. Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine stands to make USD 42.69 billion in 2022, while Moderna’s product has projected sales of USD 25.71 billion. Projected USD 3.97 billion sales for Russia’s Sputnik…

UAE Fokion Sinis, Sanofi Vaccines’ General Manager for the Greater Gulf Multi Country Organisation, outlines some of the key impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the vaccine industry, the five ‘A’s of successful vaccination campaigns, and his ambitions for the future at a moment of great transformation for both…

China Despite rapidly developing and rolling out two vaccines against COVID-19 – from domestic firms Sinopharm and Sinovac – China is yet to approve a vaccine that uses mRNA technology, either from a domestic firm or one of the two international products (Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna) currently approved elsewhere.   As the…

USA Ramona Sequeira, recently appointed chair of the PhRMA board of directors and president of Takeda’s US Business Unit and Global Portfolio Commercialization, gives her take on how the biopharma industry can do more to address the systemic inequities in US healthcare, including community-focused grant programs, clinical trial diversity initiatives, and…

Korea KHIDI’s Soonman KWON outlines the public health R&D funding landscape in Korea, plans to increase Korea’s capacity to develop and produce its own vaccines in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how Korean infrastructure and expertise is helping train up scientists from low- and middle-income countries.   My hope…

Spain Margarita Alfonsel, general secretary of Fenin, the Spanish Federation of Healthcare Technology Companies, reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic, the changing dynamics of the medical technology industry in Spain, and comments on key policy changes that Fenin’s members are advocating for.   The pandemic has put [the medtech] sector in the…