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Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, its infrastructure was left severely damaged. CMA, one of the island’s premiere architecture and engineering firms, has been working on reconstruction ever since. Jorge Tirado, CMA’s managing partner, describes how the company has managed to become the go-to firm for the pharma…

Czech Republic Martin Mátl, executive director of the Czech Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (ČAFF), shares the key priorities and challenges of the association and its members; assesses the Czech generics ecosystem, and gives insight into the importance of generics in providing a sustainable healthcare environment with ready availability of medicines for patients.…

Hungary Dr. György Bagdy, professor and former vice rector at Semmelweis University, shares his insights on the longstanding history of pharmacology in Hungary, the key strengths of the country in the field of neuroscience, and the future outlook of a more collaborative and innovation-focused research landscape.   Hungary has the knowledge…

China Dr. Zhang Yu, CEO of Aeon Therapeutics, shares the unique journey that motivated him to establish Aeon Therapeutics, as a joint venture of Chinese VcanBio and US-based Eureka Therapeutics, to commercialize Eureka’s assets in China and to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing the global CAR-T industry: the difficulty…

Puerto Rico Based in Tampa, Florida, Romark is a research-based pharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative treatments for infectious diseases. The company recently inaugurated its first finished products manufacturing facilities in Puerto Rico, transforming itself into a vertically integrated organization. CEO Marc Ayers extols the strengths of Puerto Rico as manufacturing location…

Hungary Hungarian national champion Egis and French Big Pharma Sanofi have both made recent big-ticket investments in new facilities in Hungary. Egis’ new manufacturing plant in Körmend and Sanofi’s new shared service centre in Budapest respectively stand to have a sizeable impact on the local economies and show the increasing attractiveness…

China With proactive government support and an increasingly specialised workforce, China has become one of the leading nations in the development of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies, along with the US. More than 200 CAR-T therapies are being developed in China, and the number of ongoing clinical trials continues to…

Thailand PharmaBoardroom’s latest report: Healthcare & Life Sciences Review: Thailand is available for download now.   Thailand is in the midst of an economic transformation with healthcare at its heart. With four years of around three-four percent annual GDP growth behind it, ASEAN’s second-largest economy has implemented an ‘Industry 4.0’ policy through which…

Hungary Dr. József Mandl, President of the Medical Research Council (ETT), discusses the role of the council, the research environment in Hungary, its relationship with the European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN), and the strategic objectives of the research council.    Today’s partnerships, framework, committees, and bioethical codex could not exist…

Czech Republic CzechBio’s Serhiy Forostyak, MD, Ph.D, shares the importance of a strong platform where all actors of the biotech landscape can develop their ideas and establish valuable partnerships on a national and international level. Moreover, he delves into the Czech history of medical innovation and the country’s potential to strive among…

Consulting PharMaCon is a marketing, communications and advertising agency specialized in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry for the Latin American and Hispanic US market. CEO and founder, Ivelisse Casillas, explains the advantages of being a pharma and healthcare-focused company, and their strategy to conquer the US Hispanic market.   One of…

China Juergen Kurz takes us through HEUFT’s unique technology that is revolutionizing the quality of packaging in the pharmaceutical industry in a country, China, where quality compliance is now an issue.    Unlike big companies that seek to grow by acquiring small innovative companies, HEUFT grows organically.     Juergen, could…