Tagged with innovation

Hong Kong Merck Hong Kong’s Hee-sun Lee gives her first impressions of the Hong Kong market, her main priorities, upcoming product launches and tapping into the territory’s R&D ecosystem. Hee-sun, having joined Merck Pharmaceutical Hong Kong in February 2018 from the South Korean affiliate, what are your first impressions of the market…

Portugal Virgilio Bento, known as ‘V’ amongst his peers, invites readers to discover SWORD Health, an interactive solution for patients undergoing physical recovery programs. In this exclusive interview, he describes how best to tackle future obstacles, the stigmatization endured in the disruptive startup world and the future for one of Portugal’s…

Innovation The new AI tech from Google’s DeepMind can diagnose over 50 retinal diseases with more accuracy than your optometrist. Research conducted by Nature Medicine found that a ground-breaking artificial intelligence system developed by Moorfields eye hospital, University College London and Google’s DeepMind can identify over 50 eye diseases with 94% accuracy. Among the diseases…

UK Recently appointed as general manager & vice president of Gilead’s UK and Ireland operations, Hilary Hutton-Squire highlights the uniqueness of the UK’s healthcare system, its expertise in life sciences and global leadership in clinical trials. To her, the UK has to maintain its core differentiators, such as a health technology…

Cyprus   Jacqueline Anastassiades has been involved in the development of the Cypriot healthcare sector for more than 10 years as the Managing Director of MSD. With the upcoming healthcare reforms, she brings her expert insights into the key requirements the Cyprus national health system should validate as well as the…

China Dr. Qiu, could you please introduce your company, H-Guard, to our international readers? “It is clear that our efforts and investments over the past five years have paid off. Just last year, we were recognized as a Shenzhen high-tech enterprise, and this year, we have been awarded the title of…

Digital Surgery By developing the first real-time AI system for use in operating rooms, a British medtech start-up is helping push forward the quality and precision of surgical care, as well as potentially paving the way for many more patients in developing nations to access this care. “The impact of a technology…

UK Having recently joined the UK operations of AstraZeneca after a varied international career, Laurent Abuaf shares his vision of the UK as a life sciences reference market and his take on what makes the NHS so unique. Moreover, he highlights some exciting elements of AstraZeneca’s pipeline and reaffirms the company’s…

Turkey Dr. Ümit Dereli and Cengiz Aydın of the Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (AIFD) inTurkey discuss significant recent changes in the Turkish ecosystem, including the improving recognition of the country’s regulatory agency, new pricing and localization policies, AIFD’s contribution to Turkey’s 11th Development Plan, and the ambition to make Turkey “a…

China Dr. Lu Xianping is the founder and now Chairman and CEO of one of China’s few truly innovative biotech companies, ChipScreen BioSciences Co. In this exciting interview, he shares the long journey towards the commercialization of their first cancer drug, Chidamide, launched in China in 2015, ad now awaiting market…

Portugal Alnylam, pioneers in the RNA interference field, seek to bring their revolutionary medicine across Europe, and in particular Portugal before 2020. In this interview the new General Manager for Spain and Portugal, Alicia Folgueira Lopez, a rare diseases authority, discusses how to build an affiliate from scratch, the synergies across…

3D Bioprinting With the US FDA approval of a 3D bioprinted drug in 2016, the floodgates have been opened for a new wave of innovative, personalized and customizable printed medicine.   Printing tailored medicine could simplify our supply chain dramatically. Martin Wallace, GSK   3D Bioprinting on the Rise Many healthcare and…