Tagged with disease

Pharma LEO Pharma is expanding its global presence and continuing its leading role in the number of skin disease patients treated and in thrombosis care. Head of the company’s French affiliate, the largest globally, Mr. Guillaume Clement shares his perspective on the company’s new initiatives in efforts to meet ambitious future…

Pharma Sobi is a leading integrated biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative therapies and services to improve the lives of rare disease patients and their families. Karel Fol, the country manager for Benelux shares the plans of the company for the Netherlands and Benelux, how Sobi is transforming its product portfolio,…

Pharma Finding success in the shadows of Big Pharma and large research facilities, CleveXel serves as a bridge in the industry, specializing on selecting promising molecules for investment, and developing them for the CNS market, and especially Parkinson disease. Christian Bloy shares his entrepreneurial spirit and the vision for CleveXel, a…

Pharma Prof. Luigi Naldini, Director of TIGET, discusses the success of the institute and the groundbreaking partnerships it has formed with the pharmaceutical industry, as well as his ambitions for TIGET over the coming years. Prof. Naldini, the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy was set up in 1995 as…

Pharma Patrice Carayon, CEO of Chiesi France, reveals how Chiesi is one of a select few international mid-size pharmaceutical companies in France to have both an R&D and production footprint to accompany its commercial activities; how they will look to continue to establish themselves in their three main areas: respiratory diseases,…

pharma The president of the Institut Pasteur talks about how they must build on their differentiating factors, with a focus on interdisciplinary research, why they are not a French institute with international partnerships, but an international institute that is based in France and how if there was one aspect he would…

pharma Mr Martinez, President of Santen France, reveals how Santen’s decision to acquire the French pharmaceutical company Novagali in 2011, was based on its desire to project itself as an innovative ophthalmic player across the whole of Europe and why 2015 was a significant year for the group, receiving European marketing approval…

Pharma Antimicrobial resistance is classified by the WHO as one of the top threats to humanity. The Business Unit Director for Europe and America of DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals, a global leader in environmentally friendly anti-infective molecules, explains the risks related to antimicrobial resistance, the role of the pharmaceutical industry and how…

pharma Jan Smeitink, CEO of Khondrion, a young biotech company designing highly innovative solutions for people suffering from mitochondrial diseases, provides an overview of the latest developments regarding the company’s lead compound and explains how its talented team and strategic partnership with the Radboud University Medical Centre will help Khondrion to…

pharma The country manager of Roche Diagnostics SA, Rajen Bhimaraj highlights the current gaps in the country’s healthcare system and elaborates on how the company’s various community initiatives, such as AmpliCare and the Roche Scientific Campus, are helping to address those gaps. He also evaluates the role of diagnostics in tackling…

pharma The founder and managing director of LT Clinical Research, one of the first wholly black-owned South African CRO, reveals how South Africa is a very conducive environment for CROs, with a diverse patient population, a well-established regulatory framework and a currency that compares well to other African currencies; why the…

pharma The CEO and founder of ModiQuest discusses how, with its unique, fully-integrated antibody generation and development platform, the company is developing antibodies for potentially groundbreaking therapies for the prevention and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and growing its already well-established CRO arm serving clients from around the world. Could you introduce…