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Romania Highlighting the top 50 pharma companies in Romania by value for the year ending December 2019. Multinationals MSD, Sanofi and Novartis top the list, but regional players such as Romanian firm Antibiotice, Slovenian Krka and Czech-headquartered  Zentiva are also represented.    Made with Visme Infographic Maker

Romania Pascal Robin, country chair of Sanofi and general manager of Sanofi Pasteur for Romania and Moldova, shares his insights on the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that helped Sanofi become a market leader in Romania. He reveals how the affiliate’s well-diversified portfolio is adapted to Romanian needs and how it is…

UAE NewBridge Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharma company with Dubai as its regional headquarters for the MENA region, is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2020. President and CEO Joe Henein discusses the company’s journey to becoming the partner of choice for US and European companies looking to bring their innovative products to…

Romania Dominika Kovacs, country manager of Takeda Romania, shares her insights on the growing pipeline of the organisation and the anticipated launch of a state-of-art stem cell therapy. She highlights the organisational changes in the last year, and how they have been inducive to double-digit growth for Takeda. Additionally, she reveals…

Japan In April 2019, Yasuhiro Fujiwara was appointed as the new chief executive of Japan’s drug regulator and one of the world’s foremost regulatory bodies, the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA). Upon appointment, Fujiwara coined the “Four Fs” strategy, urging PMDA employees to have a “patient first,” “access first,” “safety…

Belgium Luxembourg Brecht Vanneste, associate VP and managing director of MSD in Belgium and Luxembourg, highlights the strategic significance of the affiliate as an important location for early-stage clinical trials and home to the company’s Heist-op-den-Berg production facility, a key manufacturing site for the global group. Vanneste delivers a strong message about…

Czech Republic Kostas Deligiannis, general manager Eastern Europe for GE Healthcare (GEHC), outlines GE Healthcare’s commitment to the 20-country region under his remit, his priorities for greater collaboration between these countries, and how GE Healthcare’s innovations continue to set the bar high for both long term cost savings and improvements to patients’…

Global To celebrate International Women’s Day 2020, PharmaBoardroom brings you insights from some of the most inspirational female industry leaders we have had the privilege of talking to over the past 12 months.   Janet Woodcock, Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), US FDA     Science really can…

Belgium Teun Grooters, co-founder and CEO of Arega – the exclusive distributor of Teva generics in Belgium – tells the story of the newly founded pharmaceutical company and shares his future ambitions to grow the organization into a multinational player delivering comprehensive solutions in areas with unmet medical needs. Grooters also…

UAE When the photographic film industry faced a crisis in the early 2000s, market leader Kodak began to struggle and was obliged to make an existential decision. In 2010, worldwide demand for photographic film had fallen to less than a tenth of what it had been only ten years before. Two…

UAE With a combined experience of over five decades in the pharmaceutical industry including senior executive roles at companies such as Merck and Janssen, Karim Smaira and Kamel Ghammachi have come a long way with Genpharm, the Dubai-based market access company they founded in 2012. After years of learning the ins…

Romania Iulia Arif-Percă executive director of the Local American Working Group (LAWG), shares her insights on the launched initiatives to finding new funding alternatives that will increase Romanian patients’ access to innovative medicines. She highlights the constraining environment in which innovative companies operate in, and how LAWG’s work contributes to the…