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Korea In an exclusive interview, Tae-Han Kim, president and CEO of Samsung Biologics, documents his strategy for expanding Samsung’s operations into biologics, and how Samsung Biologics has rapidly become one of the leading Contract Development Manufacturing Organisations (CDMO) in the market in only seven years. Dr Kim also provides his assessment…

Malaysia Wong Kin Sang, country manager of Lundbeck Malaysia, walks us through the mental health issues’ perception in Malaysia and the important work Lundbeck has done to bring more awareness to healthcare professionals and patients in the country. He also highlights his future plans for the affiliate to bring more innovative…

Turkey Despite the sharp decline in the Turkish lira’s value, the general mood among pharmaceutical executives in Turkey is positive. Rather than being discouraged, they are calling upon their resiliency and experience from former periods of economic fluctuation to push the Turkish healthcare and life sciences sector forward.   Turkey made…

Opinion Mohamed is a passionate Blockchain enthusiast who is committed to helping grow the Blockchain ecosystem around the world. Here he talks about healthcare’s slow adoption of technology and the challenges that come with hefty privacy regulation of patient data.  The life-and-death nature of the industry might be a factor of…

Malaysia How Malaysia is setting itself up to provide biosimilars across the Islamic world as well as Asia.   Inno Bio Ventures, a Malaysian state-owned company originally set up to create drug security by ensuring that the country was self-sufficient in terms of medicine supply, has been making its first moves…

Malaysia Tan Sri Rahman Mamat, chairman of Inno Bio Ventures, provides his vision for biosimilars’ potential in Malaysia, and the progress the company has made in laying the foundations to make Malaysia an export hub for biological products in the future.   There is a strong potential for exporting biosimilars [from…

Malaysia George Kazzi, general manager of Baxter Malaysia, highlights the main areas of development for his affiliate, including the introduction of more renal dialysis innovation as well as increasing awareness and delivering additional solutions in parenteral nutrition. He also explains the ways in which the country should promote more effective home…

Turkey Acibadem’s Mehmet Ali Aydınlar offers his insights into the Turkish healthcare sector, highlighting Turkey’s burgeoning healthcare tourism industry. He also describes Acıbadem’s focus of growth, globalization and fundamental values that have helped the hospital chain become a prominent trademark on a global scale.   In the following years, we will…

China China’s stupendous economic resurgence over the past four decades never ceases to awe, but what has captured attention in recent years has been the country’s international awakening. Against a nasty backdrop of intensifying populist nationalism, right-wing radicalism and trade protectionism in many advanced economies, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s surprising 2017…

Turkey Murat Kavrar, country manager at Ekol Turkey, offers readers a look at Ekol’s innovative approach to the logistics sector, emphasizing his company’s R&D capacity and eco-friendly solutions that provide client companies with efficient, cost-saving logistics services.   We do logistics differently than our competition in Europe Could you introduce Ekol…

Malaysia David Ho, managing director of Hovid, introduces the success story of his family-owned company, which started at a Chinese herbal tea manufacturer and became one of the biggest local generic manufacturers in Malaysia. He also indicates his future plan to increase the company’s international presence.   We are now present…

Innovation Joonho J. Lee is a CEO and CoFounder of Cognita Lab INC developing risk management framework around Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and financial services industries. Here he discusses the use of blockchain in the healthcare industry and the need to remain “cautiously optimistic.”   Many people asked whether I…