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Pharma Legal Handbook The key facts about preclinical and clinical trial requirements in Venezuelan Pharma. Prepared in association with Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque (HPCD), a leading law firm in Venezuela, this is an extract from The Pharma Legal Handbook:Venezuela, available to purchase here for USD 99.   1. Are clinical trials required…

Pharma Legal Handbook All legal aspects surrounding regulatory, pricing and reimbursement in Venezuelan Pharma. Prepared in association with Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque (HPCD), a leading law firm in Venezuela, this is an extract from The Pharma Legal Handbook:Venezuela, available to purchase here for USD 99.   1. What are the Regulatory authorities…

Coronavirus During the 30 April IFPMA virtual media briefing on COVID-19 treatments, key global executives pushed beyond catchy headlines to discuss the current reality of COVID-19 R&D efforts.   MSD (Merck & Co. in the US and Canada) executive vice president and chief patient officer Julie Gerberding drew upon her valuable…

India COVID-19 restrictions have severely hampered multinational pharma companies who rely on India for generics and active pharmaceutical ingredients for the last month. With restrictions beginning to ease up, some manufacturing hubs are back in operation.    After over a month of lockdown and significantly reduced manufacturing capacity, the international pharma…

Morocco Morocco has made admirable progress in building a national oncology network in recent years, but the country’s cancer patients still face significant challenges in terms of accessing the latest therapies. Here, the Morocco heads of companies with global portfolios of innovative cancer treatments discuss the current situation and how they…

Morocco Taher Hassen has been in position as GM for Morocco and Tunisia at Merck for four years, overseeing year-on-year double-digit growth for the affiliate ever since. His current priorities include facilitating greater access to innovation within Morocco and bringing Merck’s world-class technological know-how to the country.   Merck has been…

Morocco Iberma, one of the leading domestic pharma manufacturers in Morocco, has evolved significantly since its founding in 1994 to become the market leader in several therapeutic areas. The company also has an increasingly international footprint, with plans to capture new opportunities in Africa and Europe.   Karim Lahlou, who took…

China Dr Joan Shen, CEO of I-Mab Biopharma, shares her impressive career journey across companies like Pfizer, Janssen and Jiangsu Hengrui, before joining I-Mab, as well as introducing what I-Mab 2.0 might look like for the NASDAQ-listed biotech, their clinical pipeline and her leadership philosophy.   Fundamentally, we need to keep…

Hong Kong Dr Desmond Hau, CEO of Pangenia Inc, sits down with PharmaBoardroom to shed light on the company’s progress since taking the reins three years ago. Hau also explains Pangenia’s strategy to develop their brand in South East Asia, the changes he foresees for the industry post the COVID-19 pandemic, and…

USA Jorge Alderete, president of ALK Americas, recently spoke to PharmaBoardroom about his 20+ years with the Danish mid-cap, the challenges in communicating the USA’s challenging market access environment to a European HQ, and why new models of patient-doctor interaction and medical distribution are crucial to ALK’s future success.   A…

Morocco Some of the more entrepreneurial Moroccan local laboratories have spotted an opening to leverage their knowledge of Sub Saharan African markets and to act as a conduit and partner for MNCs seeking to break into that region and penetrate those jurisdictions.   The African continent’s potential as a growth market…

Coronavirus A newly formed ‘Plasma Alliance’ of the world’s leading blood plasma companies believed that plasma from those who have recovered from COVID-19 could be a key piece of the puzzle in the fight against the unfolding global pandemic and speed up the search for an effective and accessible treatment.  …