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Cell & Gene Therapy Two years on from the introduction of Novartis Oncology’s CAR-T therapy to Europe, Emnuele Ostuni, the firm’s European head of cell and gene therapy, spoke to PharmaBoardroom about the pioneering product’s journey to market, what has been learnt along the way, and how his team has worked to assuage concerns…

Cell & Gene Therapy Emanuele Ostuni, Novartis Oncology’s head of cell and gene therapy for Europe, gives an overview of the introduction of the company’s CAR-T therapy to Europe, the work still to be done to get this product to more patients who need it across the continent, and the future of cell and…

China I-Mab Biopharma CFO Jielun Zhu recaps the exciting milestones for the company over the past year since our last interview in May 2019, including most notably their NASDAQ IPO in January 2020, as well as shares some insights on the NASDAQ IPO experience.   Before the IPO, we might have…

Morocco In 2020, PharmaBoardroom has met with stakeholders from across the Moroccan healthcare and life sciences industries. These interviewees range from general managers overseeing several countries in the region from a base in Morocco to association heads and key opinion leaders from the worlds of academia and policymaking. Several recurring themes…

Coronavirus The world’s two leading vaccine producers, GSK of the UK and France’s Sanofi, last week announced that they are working together to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19); an unprecedented agreement that shows the scale of the challenge facing the global biopharmaceutical industry and possibly provides the world’s…

Belgium On 8 April 2020, the Belgian federal agency for medicines and health products (‘FAMHP’) adopted a consolidated version of its decision (the ‘Decision’) taking the following urgent measures for certain listed medicines (and raw materials) to avoid medicine shortages during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic:   Wholesalers, full-line wholesalers and manufacturers are obliged to…

MEA Pierre Fabre’s recently appointed head for Africa, the Middle East and Turkey, Mouloud Boukhachab, outlines his career trajectory, having worked and managed in geographies as diverse as BeNeLux and Morocco. Boukhachab also states his priorities for his new position and his strategy for navigating the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and lockdown…

USA Robert Matsuk, president of Glenmark North America, introduces the scope of the company’s operations in the US – including a manufacturing facility that obtained its first approval in 2019. Matsuk describes the unique business model a generic player in the US needs to maintain its competitiveness and conveys the role…

Belgium Professor Stéphane De Wit, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at St Pierre University Hospital outlines Belgium’s approach to tackling HIV treatment, how academia-industry collaboration is progressing in the country, and the potential of innovative new treatment nodes such as CAR-T.   In the past, we used to collaborate…

Czech Republic Roman Grunt, CEO of Quinta Analytica, gives us an overview of the activities of how the Czech firm has managed to attract customers across the country and beyond by positioning itself as the one-stop-shop for both the clinical and analytical aspects of clinical research. He also explains how Quinta Analytica…

Cell & Gene Therapy Deloitte’s Omkar Kawalekar, Hussain Mooraj, and Amit Agarwal examine the evolution and future of cell and gene therapy manufacturing and the areas in which biopharma firms need to invest in order to succeed in this emergent field.   Cell and gene therapies (CGT) are the next evolution of personalized health…

Czech Republic PharmaBoardroom’s latest report: Healthcare & Life Sciences Review: Czech Republic is available for download now.   Home to a USD 3.38 billion pharma market, one of Central and Eastern Europe’s most high-performing healthcare systems, and one of the region’s leading economies, the Czech Republic’s healthcare and life sciences market is…