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France Biotest’s Olivier Samama outlines the changes that the takeover of the company has had on the French affiliate, the country’s plasma market and pricing policy.   The product offering remains essentially the same, but we have experienced rapid double-digit growth in the last 3 years in viral infectious disease after…

China Terns Pharmaceuticals is developing innovative drugs for the treatment of NASH and liver disease. It has established a diverse product pipeline with drug candidates targeting different stages of the disease and with complementary mechanisms of action, through partnerships with global pharma companies as well as in-house discovery efforts. With offices…

Europe The 9th February 2019 marked the launch of the European Medicines Verification System (EMVS) which will use cutting-edge technology to safeguard the medicine supply chain against fake products.   Each European country has to implement a National Medicines Verification System – EMVS   The new system — which is being dubbed the…

Switzerland Jane Griffiths, global head of Actelion – acquired in 2017 by Johnson & Johnson – discusses her priorities heading up an iconic rare disease-focused biotech and gives her take on a wide range of hot-button industry issues; from the future of M&As to patient-centricity, women in leadership and digital disruption.…

Spain María Jesús Lamas, director and César Hernández García, head of medicines for human use at the Spanish Agency of Medicine and Health Products (AEMPS), discuss the challenges impacting the evaluation and analysis of products today. Furthermore, they give insights into why Spain is a leading global clinical trials destination and…

France The healthcare and life sciences industries, as they become more advanced and complex, increasingly require government involvement to ensure clinical compliance, ethical behaviour and the well-being of the nation. The health sector is subject to mounting regulatory pressures meaning politics must play a key role. As we advance more and more in healthcare…

Korea Bong Gil Nam, chairman and owner of Pharmbio Korea, offers his insights on his company’s importance in differentiating itself from the generic competitors in the market. Mr Nam also explains his strategy to expand into the East Asian market and provides his assessment on how established Korean pharmaceutical companies can…

France Pierre Banzet, CEO of French CDMO Groupe SYNERLAB, shares how the group has developed over the past three years and discloses his strategy for generating specialty production knowledge as well as expanding the company’s footprint within Europe. Banzet also offers his assessment of key CDMO trends and the current condition…

Korea Bioneer, founded in 1992, lays claim to be Korea’s oldest biotechnology company. President, founder and CEO, Dr Han-Oh Park introduces the technological advances they have developed in molecular research tools, Bioneer’s globally distributed platform of molecular diagnostics, and its novel next-generation RNAi therapeutics platform SAMiRNA TM. Dr Park also comments…

France On February 4 in Paris, Minister of Health and Solidarity Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal, Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance Agnès Pannier-Runacher, and President of the Healthcare Industry Strategic Committee (CSF) and Chairman of the French Federation of Health…

China Even though China’s pharmaceutical sector remains largely generics-based, the Middle Kingdom’s biotechnology scene has been flourishing in recent years. Now the world’s fastest-growing biopharmaceutical market, China can boast a much-improved context in terms of drug regulation, ease of doing business, research capabilities and access to capital. Below, we highlight 5…

Italy Managing partner of the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills in Italy, Laura Orlando is one of Italy’s leading life sciences specialists, with a focus on IP and regulatory matters.  Together with Sara Balice, one of the firm’s senior associates they examine the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) ruling on…