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Mexico Writing in the November issue of DIA Global Forum, Lawrence Liberti, Mario Alanis, Pravin Chopra, and Silvia Bendiner examine how the COVID-19 pandemic facilitated greater inter-stakeholder collaboration across the healthcare ecosystems in Cuba and Mexico, and how the learnings from this period can be leveraged for better patient outcomes moving…

Australia In conversation in the November issue of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Australian Pharmaceutical medical and scientific Professionals Association (APPA) Past President David Grolman highlights the contributions that Australia is already making to the global innovative pharmaceutical industry and why his country remains a particularly attractive clinical trials hub.   “We…

Europe In the wake of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), sustainability is once more a hot-button issue across all industries, including pharma. Here, Marco Rauland, vice president global market access & pricing strategic planning at Merck Group, casts his eye across Europe to assess how sustainability criteria are…

InFocus BACK TO HOME     Patient Engagement in the Era of CAR-T   BACK TO HOME CGT, Real World Evidence & The Patient Experience One of the enduring conundrums around ground-breaking and potentially paradigm-shifting treatments such as CAR-T is the ever-thorny question of how fast to move them to market…

InFocus BACK TO HOME     Patient Engagement in the Era of CAR-T   BACK TO HOME CAR-T and the Art of Managing Expectations Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) therapy was first approved by the US FDA back in 2017 amid a great deal of fanfare and high expectations among patients about…

InFocus BACK TO HOME     Patient Engagement in the Era of CAR-T   BACK TO HOME Rendering CGT Genuinely Patient Centric In recent years, the much-discussed concept of “patient centricity” has been top-of-mind across all corners of the pharma industry. This is especially pertinent now that many innovative drug makers…

InFocus BACK TO HOME Patient Engagement in the Era of CAR-T BACK TO HOME Marc Boutin Global Head of Patient Engagement, novartis SHARE Share on twitter Share on linkedin “How are you today?” For patients, this question may be a challenge. Honest answers can stop a conversation straight away. I know…

UK The latest news from UK pharma, including AstraZeneca’s decision to create a dedicated business unit for its COVID-19 vaccines, GSK’s raised profits forecast, and CDMO Almac’s move to create over 1,000 new jobs at its facilities in Northern Ireland over the next three years.   AstraZeneca to create dedicated Covid…

Germany Christian Conrad outlines his role as patient engagement lead for Novartis Oncology in Germany, how individual patient interactions differ from those with advocacy groups, and the current situation for cancer patients eligible to receive Novartis’ CAR-T therapy in Germany.   There has been a big change in the last few…

Saudi Arabia Medochemie’s Yasser Sabra gives a fascinating insight into the branded generic and value added medicine field today, including why the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to a reappraisal of medicine repurposing. Sabra also touches on the firm’s operations in the Middle East’s biggest market of Saudi Arabia, explaining why the Saudi…

Denmark The BioInnovation Institute (BII) is an initiative from the Novo Nordisk Foundation which aims to support entrepreneurial researchers and early-stage life science start-ups with up to DKK 18 million in founder-friendly funding. CEO Jens Nielsen highlights some of the BII’s milestones and success stories since its formation and Denmark’s progress…

USA Melanie Croce-Galis, RN, MPH explains the specificities of her work as patient engagement lead for Novartis Oncology in the US market, where significant disparities in patient access to information and to care throw up several challenges. Croce-Galis also outlines the work being done around CAR-T therapies and why integrating and…