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Baltics Boriss Birmans, country manager of Santen Latvia, discusses the company’s focus on patient-centricity in the country, its ambition to bring in more preservative-free drugs for glaucoma patients and how its market share in Latvia is one of the highest in the entire EU. Can you walk us through Santen’s history…

Poland Markus Sieger, CEO of Polpharma, outlines his global strategy for the company, focused on OTC and CHC, internationalization and a strong R&D strategy to push forward biosimilars. Furthermore, he highlights Polpharma’s digital approach and the company’s long-term vision for sustained success across the region.   Our international markets are growing…

Baltics Janis Meiksans, general manager at TEVA Baltics, explains how the base of the company’s success is what they call ‘generic evangelism’ and how from being a marketing and distribution organization in the region, they successfully managed to rank number one pharmaceutical company by sales. Janis, can you talk our international…

Ecuador Miguel Pasquel, endocrinologist at Quito’s Metropolitano Hospital and former president of the Ecuadorian Endocrinology Society shares his point of view on the country’s healthcare system. He recognizes the good will of successive governments but regrets their inability to give Ecuadorians access to health across the country, highlighting the differences between…

Baltics Victor Shatz, chairman, founder, and owner of Fanex Latvia, talks about the origins of Fanex and the development of his career. He also talks about Fanex’s market share within the Baltic region and the company’s strategy to reach success and spread risks. We understand Fanex was established in 1993 primarily…

Lithuania Lithuania’s biotech sector has grown by between 20 and 25 percent over the last five years and accounts for over one percent of the entire country’s GDP. Key industry stakeholders are, however, split on whether Lithuania truly holds the potential to become a biotech hub that can stand alongside nations…

Canada Investissement Québec (IQ) contributed to the completion of 65 international projects in 2017 and hosts Pfizer, Sanofi, and Merck amongst over 160 IT companies, employing over 5,400 workers. Pierre Gabriel Côté, CEO of IQ, took the reins in January 2015 and intends to digitize the investment space using Artificial Intelligence…

Baltics Marina Truhanova, deputy head of National Health Service Latvia, discusses the responsibility that the Latvian National Health System (NHS) has in terms of allocating their financial resources wisely, the importance of public procurement of medicines with the other two Baltic states to purchase cheaper drugs and allow for more access…

Canada Imran Ali, senior manager of the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA) Office, the body that provides dedicated centralized support to the national negotiating process for drug prices, representing all 14 public drug plan jurisdictions in Canada, discusses the mandate of the pCPA, the main achievements so far, as well as the…

Brazil The Top 20 pharma companies in Brazil for 2017, combining the data for both the retail and non-retail markets. Sanofi leads the way, followed by local player NC Farma and Hypermarcas.

Brazil The Latin American pharmaceutical market in comparison. Brazil is by far the largest market. GDP real growth in Latin America regional comparison. Top 20 pharma companies in Latin America. Sanofi leads the way followed by Novartis and GSK. Brazil GDP and pharmaceutical market growth between 2014 and 2017. The evolution…

Canada At the company’s 40th anniversary, Biogen’s Canadian head Marina Vasiliou gives an insight into her priorities as new managing director, her approach to building relationships with all stakeholders in the healthcare system to ensure access to Biogen’s innovative treatments, and explains how the portfolio of the neuroscience leader is perfectly…