Tagged with Innovation

Canada Looking back on 40 years of commitment to Canada, Servier also celebrates 20 years of R&D activity in the country. On this two-fold anniversary, Frédéric Fasano highlights some of the company’s more recent achievements in terms of portfolio growth and partnering efforts, while also addressing some of the challenges Servier…

Portugal Portugal’s Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, details his plan to bring Portuguese scientific and business practices above European averages. Collaboration across industries, increased public and private investment into R&D and innovative global projects will pave the way for Portugal’s progression in Europe. Can you please outline…

Canada Having managed the Canadian affiliate of Otsuka from its infancy steps, Allison Rosenthal, general manager, highlights the affiliate’s feat to exceed expectations for the performance of each of its launches while maintaining extremely high employee engagement. Otsuka’s specialization in mental health also leads Rosenthal to call for better support from…

Canada Heather Chalmers, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare Canada, shares the company’s increasing focus on incorporating applied intelligence and digital analytics in its portfolio of innovative solutions, and how these can have significant effects on patient outcomes as well as the whole healthcare system. She further highlights the…

Poland Krzysztof Popławski, general manager of Baxter Poland, discusses the Baxter Education Center, the largest educational program for a European affiliate, and its role in raising the awareness within the Polish medical community. Furthermore, he highlights the key growth drivers for the company, the overriding need to better treat and diagnose…

Poland Olympus is internationally well-regarded as being a quality camera provider and continues to provide developed countries across the globe with high-tech medical devices from endoscopes to imagery solutions. Tomasz Mrzygłód, managing director of Olympus Poland, sheds light on the company’s long-term vision and how it manifests in Polish work practices,…

Baltics Piret Hirv, Health Technology Division manager at Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol, discusses the match-making role that the Estonian Connected Health Cluster provides between companies and investors and sees as a priority a less Tallinn-centered approach as a way to attract an even more diverse range of organizations. Can you give…

India A successful commercial leader, Annaswamy Vaidheesh, president of OPPI, VP South Asia and managing director at GSK India, talks about the tremendous work that the local affiliate is doing in the country in making innovative products available to patients and their recent GBP 100 million investment in manufacturing. Can you…

India A strong supporter of public-private partnerships, MSD’s managing director in India, Vivek Kamath, explains how the company’s collaborative approach is the key to enhancing their reputation, improving patient outcomes and tackling unmet medical needs in India.   Mr. Kamath, you have worked for MSD for over four years and you…

India Ashok Battacharya, executive director of the Indian affiliate of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, with 38 years experience in global Ppharmaceutical MNCs, discusses the top-notch reputation that Takeda has among physicians and patients and how the company is working towards making Takeda’s innovative medications available to Indian Patients. Can you give our international…

Estonia Kadri Maegi-Lehtsi, general manager of Roche Pharmaceuticals Estonia, discusses the company’s established footprint in the Estonian market and their mission to give back to the Estonian society not only by providing innovative and highly needed medicines, but also through awareness and lifestyle campaigns. In Estonia, Roche focuses on marketing and…

Baltics Kuuno Vaher, market access director Baltics and country lead of AstraZeneca Estonia, discusses the liberal attitude towards innovative and highly needed medicines of Estonian regulators and the crucial importance of closer collaboration with payers, which has led the thriving affiliate to have its portfolio reimbursed in the country. Can you…