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China A selection of the latest stories from Chinese pharma, including Novartis’ bet that the country will become its second biggest market by 2024 through the introduction of 50 new drugs, a new report by McKinsey that evaluates China’s impact on the global biopharma industry, AstraZeneca’s respiratory plans, and Gilead’s USD…

Italy Giuseppe Maduri, Chairman, Managing Director, General Manager Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta at Astellas Pharma explains the Japanese company’s focus on unmet needs and how Italy, one of its top European markets, is working to ovecome market access challenges.  Greater anticipation would allow patients’ faster access to innovation but requires a…

Egypt Egypt’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer by units, EIPICO, plans to diversify its production capacity by building the country’s first biological & biosimilar production plant. Not only that, the company is leading the change towards localization and local production of APIs. Founded in 1980, EIPICO is currently the number one company in…

Global While COVID-19 demonstrated the biopharma industry’s capacity for innovation and its ability to scale up manufacturing, it also exposed the challenges of ensuring equitable distribution of vaccines. In an effort to work towards solving these issues and being better prepared to respond to future pandemics, the industry has created the…

Middle East & Africa Within the context of the MEA region’s maturing regulatory environment, the expansion of healthcare coverage and regulatory changes aimed at making the New Molecular Entities (NMEs) review process more efficient, registrations have increased in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Tunisia and Egypt, but slowed down in other territories. Results from the second…

Italy Chairman & Managing Director of B. Braun Milano, Klaus D. Pannes, shares the importance of the German medtech’s Italian affiliate, one of its top ten by third-party sales, which is celebrating its 100 year anniversary this year. He also describes how B. Braun is working to overcome the challenges of…

Europe Pharma and biotech companies have demonstrated their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), particularly with respect to gender equality with more and more women in leadership positions. Insights from women pharma leaders in Europe.   I believe it is more important than ever to build a truly diverse and…

Global DIA 2022 convened with an opening plenary that explored the question What is the Future of Healthcare? from four connected perspectives—Inclusive, Global, Individual, Digital.   Barbara Lopez Kunz, Global Chief Executive, DIA “We’re here this week because we imagine a world where powerful health interventions and tools are rapidly discovered,…

South Africa Some of the top pharma news coming out of South Africa including Afrigen’s partnership with US National Institutes of Health (NIH), BioNTech’s efforts to bring an mRNA start-to-finish vaccine manufacturing network to Africa and Ascendis Health’s deal with Austell Pharmaceuticals for its pharma division.   Afrigen partners with US National Institutes…

Global After almost four years leading Sanofi’s second largest market, China, Pius S. Hornstein moves into a global role to focus on the company’s digital transformation. “In the last 8 years, I have been witnessing the incredible opportunities that digital could unlock …” he said in a LinkedIn post announcing the…

Egypt The chairman of EIPICO – Egypt’s largest pharma company by units –, Dr Ahmed Kelani, outlines the company’s ambitious growth strategy, which includes the construction of the first biological & biosimilar production plant in Egypt. The plant is expected to commence production at the end of 2023 and would become…

Global Pharma companies no longer view digital as a “nice to have” add on, but as an integral part of their business, yet there are still quite a few hurdles to overcome. Insights from pharma industry digital transformation leaders. Industry is on a dedicated and focused journey to leverage data and…