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Artificial Intelligence With so many wild predictions being bandied around about AI’s potential to radically transform healthcare for the better, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that materialization of that dream will be far from easy. Indeed, the task a hand can seem quite formidable. Most pharma companies’ existing…

Artificial Intelligence As data and information proliferate at an exponential pace, many industries have turned to artificial intelligence to make sense of this information and deliver meaningful insights that can enhance performance. This is certainly the case for the healthcare sector, where the technology augurs nothing less than a paradigm shift towards…

Artificial Intelligence On the supply side, AI appears to herald the prospect of de-risking the drug discovery process and doing away with many of the traditional time-consuming approaches at a juncture when drug development had been becoming financially unsustainable and clinical research organisations (CROs) had been systematically failing to improve operational efficiency.…

Artificial Intelligence The AI in Life Sciences Market was valued at USD 902.1 million in 2019 by Mordor Intelligence and is projected to expand at an impressive 20 percent compound annual growth rate in the period 2020 to 2024. Yet despite the massive hype and enthusiasm around artificial intelligence’s propensity to positively…

USA Carla Smith looks at the three vital components behind successful strategic alliances in US healthcare:disruption,  data-driven demands and convenient care delivery.   Throughout my career, to bring positive and lasting change to the health sector, I’ve brokered more collaborative efforts than I can count. Strategic alliances between health leaders, nonprofit…

Hungary As the only one of Hungary’s four historical pharmaceutical manufactures to have resisted international acquisition, Gedeon Richter stands alone as the country’s national champion. However, the company does not exist in a vacuum and, like many globally active mid-cap pharma players, establishing partnerships across the entire value chain has been…

China Hans Schmid, chairman; and Enrico Magnani, GM, of global cancer supportive care leader Helsinn Pharmaceuticals’ operations in China, share the Swiss company’s strategy in China, having entered in 2012; the milestone of launching their first product in China in November 2018 for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV); the importance they…

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia is aiming to become a more attractive investment destination for multinational pharma companies through economic development projects that facilitate ease of doing business. Not stopping there, the Kingdom has a bold ambition to become a pharma hub for the entire Middle East region.    Saudi Arabia has the…

Brazil Swiss pharma giant Novartis is teaming up with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil to conduct research throughout Latin America on neglected diseases.   This agreement establishes an exchange of know-how that will provide progress in public health policies in Brazil Patrice Matchaba, global head of corporate responsibility, Novartis…

Puerto Rico In June 2019, Sartorius Stedim Biotech inaugurated the USD 130 million expansion of its Yauco site, one of the first multi-million dollar investment projects on the island after Hurricane Maria. Dante Castillo, the Yauco site’s director of operations, explains how this expansion fits within the group’s global ambitions and what…

Artificial Intelligence IBM Watson Health’s Director for Global Life Sciences & Go-To Market Leader for Europe & Asia Pacific Christina Busmalis gives her insights into how AI and greater utilisation of real-world evidence is shaping the global biopharmaceutical industry, including the tangible results she has seen so far, and the lengthy path…

Europe Awareness is growing of the dangers of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in Europe, and conversations are beginning to taking place around how to leverage data to combat these infections and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). A panel of experts from diverse backgrounds at the European Health Forum Gastein put their heads together to…