Italy Pierluigi Petrone outlines family-owned Petrone Group’s wide-range of outsourcing services to the pharmaceutical industry, how its international footprint has evolved over time, and his key priorities as president of Italy’s main primary pharma distribution association, ASSORAM. My dream is that Italy, thanks to its infrastructure and location, can become…
China Writing in the April edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, the DIA China Leadership and Career Community look at the Chinese pharmaceutical innovation ecosystem’s R&D talent gap and the China Pharmaceutical R&D Talent Innovation Research Project that was launched to address it. Over the past five years, China’s pharmaceutical innovation industry…
Australia Writing in April edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, the University of New South Wales’s Richard Day looks at Australia’s National Medicines Policy (NMP) and how it is being reshaped by community and stakeholder feedback. Australia’s National Medicines Policy (NMP), gazetted in 2000, is being revised and the draft policy was…
South Korea Chair & Founder, Regenerative Medicine Acceleration Foundation (RMAF), So Ra Park MD, PhD*, comments on the regenerative medicine ecosystem in Korea, the country’s new legislative approach to the field, and the Korean market’s strong potential for growth in Asia. The first approval of a regenerative medicine product in Korea…
Pharma Legal Handbook All legal aspects surrounding the regulatory reforms in the Polish pharma market. Prepared in association with DLA Piper, a leading law firm in Poland, this is an extract from The Pharma Legal Handbook: Poland, available to purchase here for GBP 119. 1. Are there proposals for reform or significant change…
Europe When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, Europe’s reliance on active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and generic medicine suppliers outside of the continent was laid bare. In the face of crisis, countries like India and China understandably looked first to safeguard their own populations which, combined with supply chain strains…
Global Driven by increased demand from Big Pharma, mid-caps, and biotechs for outsourcing services, the USD 70 billion global contract research organisation (CRO) market is predicted to grow at a CAGR of between 11 and 12 percent over the next five to seven years, with differing estimates placing its total size…
China As China struggles to maintain its ‘dynamic zero-COVID’ policy in the face of Omicron variant outbreaks, other key talking points emerging from the world’s second-largest healthcare and life sciences market include Chinese firms’ deals to manufacture generic versions of Pfizer’s COVID antiviral, Kintor’s 229 percent share price leap after positive…
Global UNICEF is forecasting that between 16.8 billion and 20.9 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be produced in 2022. The Economist Intelligence Unit highlights the drivers of this incredible demand as the fact that booster shots will be needed to counter new variants; the increased number of countries requesting the Pfizer…
India The latest healthcare and pharma news from India, including the opening up of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to all adults; the lowering of vaccine prices; and the licences granted to 19 Indian pharmaceutical firms for the generic version of Pfizer’s oral antiviral COVID-19 pill. COVID-19 vaccine booster shots now…
Italy Organon Italy’s Alper Alptekin introduces the newly formed women’s health company, his priorities for the Italian affiliate, and how improvements in women’s health can improve gender equality and give women the ability to be stronger, more vocal, and more independent. While Organon’s portfolio is meeting the needs of women,…
Global Antimicrobial pollution is a major global health and environmental risk. Shawview Consulting’s Brendan Shaw and Nicolai Schaaf of SIWI uncover what antibiotics manufacturers are doing about it. Last month, global leaders issued an urgent call for all countries to reduce antimicrobial pollution. This includes the safe disposal of antimicrobial…
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