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Portugal ARSLVT exists to make sure that people living in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley have access to quality health care, adapting the resources available to the region’s health needs and complying with and enforcing the National Health Plan. Luis Pisco is confident in Portugal’s development as a healthy nation, and…

Baltics As the Lithuanian market matures, profound shifts have been taking place in the arena of human resources and how drug developers go about identifying, acquiring and retaining the personnel they require for a new age of medical science. “There are a number of emerging trends underway that are forcing companies…

Canada After 35 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Barry Fishman shares his excitement about heading one of Canada’s leading licensed cannabis producers. He explains how his experience in the world of pharma helps him to steer ABcann towards global expansion and emphasizes the importance of product development in both adult-use and…

Baltics Vasily and Svetlana Bankovsky, founders of Biosan, talk about the company’s philosophy to develop modern, exciting personal products for sample preparation in the field of genomics, proteomics and cellomics and about their ambition to grow domestically and internationally. Vasily and Svetlana, can you give our international readers a brief overview…

India India’s pharmaceutical sales and forecast from 2013 up to 2021. Between 2017 and 2021, the Indian pharma market is forecasted to grow by a CAGR of between nine and ten percent. The Indian biotechnology market grew by a CAGR of 20.33% between 2005 and 2015 and stood at USD 11.6…

UK Recipient of the 2018 Brain Prize for research for groundbreaking research on the generic and molecular basis of Alzheimer’s Disease, the UCL’s Professor John Hardy discusses recent progress in dementia research, the strengths and weaknesses of the UK’s medical research environment, and the potential effects of Brexit.   In all…

Ecuador Santiago Caviedes, Harvard graduate, founder and chief economist of Humboldt Management, a company awarded multiple times for the precision of its forecasts in Ecuador by international institutions, gives a detailed overview of the country’s current economic situation and positive outlook for the future. Mr. Caviedes describes the country as a…

Canada With a diverse pipeline to back up its projects, Tetra Bio-Pharma wants to be the first Canadian pharmaceutical company to launch a cannabis-based drug in breakthrough pain. Bernard Fortier, CEO of Tetra Bio-Pharma, counts on the production of credible scientific data to overcome stigmas attached to medical cannabis and believes…

Canada Heading Canada’s largest cannabis Business to Business Retailer, John Fowler, CEO of The Supreme Cannabis Company, offers a novel approach looking at medical cannabis as a medicine that is not just healing but can also be enjoyable. He discusses the company’s business model that differs from that of other licensed…

UK Tim de Gavre, country head of Sandoz UK, discusses the role of biosimilars in driving innovation, the threats and opportunities of Brexit to the biosimilars industry, and how Sandoz partners with the NHS. In addition to your role at Sandoz, you are also one of the founding members of the…

India Satish Varma, managing director of Fermenta Biotech Ltd., one of the world’s largest and leading producers of Vitamin D3, provides insights into the indisputable benefits brought by the “Vitamin of the Century”, his approach to instill the best quality and regulatory standards in the company as well as his priorities…

Lithuania Lukas Savickas, advisor to the prime minister of Lithuania, highlights the changes needed for the Lithuanian life science industry to become more competitive, while discussing the opportunities awaiting companies willing to invest in the country. Can you please introduce yourself to our international audience as well as the main points…