Tagged with r&d

Taiwan In an exclusive interview, Amy Huang, general manager of OBI Pharma, shares her plans to bolster the international development of the company and further strengthen its expertise throughout the drug development process. She also elaborates on the key next steps that lie ahead for OBI Pharma’s flagship immuno-oncology therapy, Adagloxad…

Taiwan Leveraging Taiwan’s remarkable talent pool in chemistry, some of the country’s fastest-growing companies have been concentrating their efforts on technology platforms that allow them to develop a plethora of potentially game-changing products, rather than focusing all their resources on the risky development of a single, potentially groundbreaking product.   Taiwan…

Taiwan Founded in 2012, Senhwa Biosciences is mainly engaged in the development and clinical study of small molecule drugs to treat various types of cancer, and its drug development pipelines include CX-5461, a first-in-class drug using G-quadruplex (G4) stabilizer as a mechanism as well as the casein kinase 2 (CK2) inhibitor…

Mexico The CEO of Accelerium Clinical Research, Ciro Garcia speaks about the trends currently impacting Mexico’s clinical research space, while detailing the company’s ambition to pivot from just one full-service research center to the nation’s leading network of clinical research facilities. Could you please introduce yourself to our international audience as…

Switzerland Markus Arigoni, CEO of Ticino-based micronization specialists Micro-Macinazione, describes the scope of the company’s operations, the enlargement of the firm’s R&D capacities, and emerging trends in the micronization niche. Micro-Macinazione SA was founded back in 1970 and has subsequently developed into one of Europe’s most renowned providers of micronization of…

Mexico Positioning itself as a flexible local CRO with an in-depth knowledge of the Mexican market, iLS Clinical Research CEO, Alejandro Arias, shares his insights on how to be the ideal partner for international expansion. He speaks about the company’s milestones and background, navigating through the challenges of the Mexican CRO…

Mexico Eduardo Arce Parellada, General Manager at Sanofi Pasteur Mexico until March 2017, explains the positive impact that the vaccine against Dengue could generate for the national health system and showcases the positioning of Sanofi Pasteur as the partner of choice for the government in vaccinology, based on its local R&D…

Taiwan Wayne Wang, director general of Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), the country’s largest and oldest innovation cluster and the first in Taiwan to establish a science park exclusively dedicated to the life sciences industry, documents the potential of HSP as a world-class eco-system for start-ups, local and international mature companies, prestigious…

Mexico With an impressive achievement of growing the novel “flexible solutions” business unit by an astounding 50 percent in his first year of spearheading the region, Ricardo Uribe, Covance Mexico’s Director of Country Operations, shares his insights into the attractiveness of the region for clinical research. He speaks about the impressive…

Switzerland The Chief Scientific Officer and President of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Swiss R&D Center elaborates on Glenmark’s endeavor to venture up the pharmaceutical value chain and discusses the company’s R&D strategy. Furthermore, he highlights the significance of strategic partnerships in today’s pharmaceutical R&D efforts. You have spent 23 years working in large…

Switzerland Despite increasing consolidation in the clinical trial industry, there’s enough market share to go around says SOCAR Research CEO Bridget-Anne Kirwan. For SOCAR Research, it’s the company’s strong academic roots in addition to personalized, tailored and innovative services that have helped to make the difference. To begin, could you please…

Taiwan With more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published and more than ten thousand citations, Guochuan Emil Tsai, founder and CEO of SyneuRx and Professor at the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is an internationally reputed scientist in neurosciences and brain disorders, whose…