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Morocco Cooper Pharma is one of Morocco’s leading domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers and has expanded its presence across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in recent years. CEO Ayman Cheikh Lahlou emphasizes the importance of healthcare investment for a developing nation, highlighting Morocco’s commitment to self-sufficiency in pharmaceuticals, the potential for Morocco…

Spain A roundup of the latest news from Spanish pharma, including Almirall’s licensing deal with EpimAb Biotherapeutics; the opening of Insud Pharma’s oligonucleotides centre in India, and Esteve Química’s new FDA-cleared manufacturing site.   Almirall licenses bispecific platform in $210m EpimAb deal (BioProcess International) EpimAb Biotherapeutics has out-licensed the rights for…

Denmark LEO Pharma has been in the midst of a shakeup since the beginning of 2022. After naming a new CEO and announcing a major restructuring, the Danish dermatology pharma has let a considerable number of employees go, closed research centres and restructured its R&D team. While LEO’s financials look promising…

India The top 10 Indian pharma companies ranked by market capitalization as of June 2023, compiled by Global Data. Way out in front is Sun Pharma, followed by Dr Reddy’s and Cipla. Made with Visme Infographic Maker

China After four years away, Brendan Shaw recently returned to China to attend the ChinaBio Innovation and Investment Conference in Suzhou. Although geopolitical tensions, the fallout from COVID-19, and local market challenges have dampened stakeholder optimism around China somewhat in the last few years, Shaw feels that the country still has…

UK Could the UK’s re-joining of Horizon Europe, the EU’s EUR 95 billion research funding programme, be the latest sign that the country is ready to win back its global scientific relevance? The announcement comes just months after an ambitious government plan to “cement” the UK’s position as a science superpower,…

Global Well-informed and data-driven healthcare decision making has never been more important. Healthcare systems across the world – in both developed and developing contexts – are grappling with the challenge of providing quality treatments and services to patients while ensuring that their money is well spent. At the forefront of helping…

France France’s life sciences industry is falling behind its European neighbours, its growth deeply hampered, the French life sciences think tank G5 Santé claims, by abusive paybacks. While the government has demonstrated its willingness to take steps towards levelling its pricing barometers and in so doing tackle medicine shortages and build…

Australia Richard Day of the University of New South Wales, writing in the October 2023 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, looks at updates to the health technology assessment (HTA) processes in Australia and New Zealand   In April 2023, the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care launched an independent Health…

Japan Real-world data (RWD) offers the possibility of providing important information to help inform regulatory decision-making. But turning this possibility into reality still depends on the quality and reliability of the data, say J&J’s Yumi Wakabayashi and Vicky Han in October 2023’s DIA Global Forum magazine. With appropriate efforts to ensure…

Global Shawview Consulting’s Brendan Shaw looks back on a sombre United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage in New York last month, as stakeholders reflected on the long road still to travel if the goal of securing UHC for the world’s population by 2030 is to be met. Shaw…

Global Merck’s Kaushal Kishore attempts to illustrate why pharma companies have struggled to crack what he calls “the Gross to Net (GtN) code.” He outlines the maturity journey for a pharma commercial and pricing organisation which can lead to maturity on the GtN topic, and highlights a successful example that can…