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Mexico The director of Mexican pharmaceutical industry association CANIFARMA, Rafael Gual Cosío, speaks out about the current contradictions plaguing Mexico’s pharma sector. Gual Cosío highlights the fact that market growth and revenue increases are being seen despite regulatory backlog and medicine shortages due to inefficient handling of the public system. He…

Egypt Takeda Egypt’s Samy Khalil gives an overview of the company’s presence in the country and the fundamentals behind its double-digit growth there, provides his view of the healthcare transformation of the country – both achievements and challenges – and explains why Egypt was added to Takeda’s Access Markets cluster.  …

UK “Life sciences are at the heart of my vision to build a country fit for the future,” tweeted new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss last month. Now installed as leader of a country facing a once-in-a-generation cost of living and energy cost crisis compounded by geopolitical turbulence and the continuing…

Italy While Italy’s biotech landscape is generally held to be somewhat immature in comparison to more established markets such as Germany, France or the UK, that does not imply a deficit of innovation. On the contrary, the Italian life science scene is increasingly strong when it comes to behind-the-scenes, incremental innovation.…

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…

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…

Pharma Legal Handbook Regulatory, pricing and reimbursement overview in Italy – a legal guide. Prepared in association with Baker Mckenzie, a leading law firm in Italy, this is an extract from The Pharma Legal Handbook: Italy, available to purchase here for GB 119.   1. What are the regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over…