Japan Writing in the June edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, representatives of Japanese pharmaceutical companies with US operations outline how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their ongoing clinical studies. The spread of COVID-19 and the resulting social activity restrictions have severely impacted drug development and threatened the continuity of clinical…
China Writing in the June edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Harbour BioMed’s Fang Zhou, in conversation with Sanofi China’s Irene Deng, looks at how Chinese pharmaceutical regulations have evolved and what impact this has had on regulatory professionals in the country. The Chinese pharmaceutical industry, through the first five…
USA Dan Leonard of the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) highlights five key takeaways from the organisation’s remote but dynamic annual conference, and how the US generics and biosimilars industry might evolve post-COVID. AAM and our member companies have experienced a year like no other, and the lessons of the…
USA Taking the example of music’s effect on Alzheimer’s disease patients, John G Singer makes the case for a more holistic approach to healthcare; focusing less on the transformative potential of individual drugs and more on value as a stream of benefits delivered through a living system. Singer/songwriter Glen Campbell,…
Global Merck VP for Global Market Access & Pricing Strategic Planning Marco Rauland outlines how AI has already begun to transform pharmaceutical strategy and highlights five ways in which it can be better utilised in pricing and market access decision making. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been creating a buzz in…
Australia Regular PharmaBoardroom contributor Brendan Shaw outlines how his home country of Australia has so far successfully managed to avoid the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing opportunities for the life sciences industry to invest in new facilities, research and development in a post-pandemic world. Australia, the island continent A…
Asia-Pacific Writing in the May edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Toshiyoshi Tominaga of the Asia-Pacific Self-Medication Industry (APSMI) looks at the landscape for OTC medicines in the Asia-Pacific region today. Tominaga highlights how, against the backdrop of a drop in formal medical interventions due to COVID-19 infection fears, countries are more than…
Japan Toshio Fujimoto, MD, MBA, the General Manager of Shonan Health Innovation Park examines why Japan – despite being well established as one of the world’s most innovative and technologically advanced countries – has lagged behind in terms of VC funding, especially in the life sciences and how this can be…
Australia In an exclusive new podcast, DIA Global Forum Australia/New Zealand Regional Editor Richard Day (University of New South Wales, Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital) and John Skeritt, Head of Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), discuss regulatory strategies and other initiatives designed to help nurture clinical research and product development in Australia post-pandemic. With…
MEA Mohamed Nasser, Amgen’s general manager for the vast Middle East & Africa (MEA) region, leverages his considerable experience managing teams across the region to highlight four skills (and one secret ingredient) that pharma country and regional managers in MEA need to succeed. The Middle East-Africa area (MEA) is one…
USA Writing in the May edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Erica Lyons, Sarrit Kovacs, Matthew Kowalik, and Jessica Lee from the Division of Gastroenterology, Office of New Drugs, CDER at the US FDA look at how patient input is increasingly being utilised in new drug development, its importance in assessing…
Global The issue of COVID-19 vaccine access in developing nations has thrust intellectual property (IP) into global headlines. Against the backdrop of heated arguments both for and against an IP waiver for COVID-related products, the global pharma industry has launched a new initiative on IP, asserting its crucial importance to continued…
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