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Opinion After her son was diagnosed with SYNGAP1 – an extremely rare gene mutation – Monica Weldon founded Bridge the Gap – SYNGAP Education and Research Foundation to support families of those suffering from the illness and to accelerate the path to better therapies. Here, Monica shares her organisations secret to success in the…

France Françoise Alliot-Launois, VP of the French League Against Rheumatism (AFLAR), discusses the issues around bone and joint infections in France, AFLAR’s work to help patients suffering from these diseases, and the broader role of patient associations within the French healthcare ecosystem.   In France, 20 million people are suffering from…

Korea Dr Byung Guk Yang, CEO of Daewoong Bio, explains the challenges the Korean healthcare system is facing and how his experience in the public sector now helps him lead a private sector company. He also offers his insights into Daewoong Bio’s diversified business model and highlights the need for internationalization.…

China It has been announced by China’s State Council that as of March 1st 2019, the government will reduce the VAT on a “first batch” of 21 rare disease drugs and four active pharmaceutical ingredients (API’s) by more than 80% in a bid to get new treatments to market faster. Historically, China has…

France Finn Søndergaard, CEO of Intsel Chimos, shares the motivation behind the company’s two recent acquisitions of Diverchim and Centre Lab, and the new strategic opportunities to expand as a full-service hospital partner in the French healthcare system. Additionally, Søndergaard offers his assessments of the conditions of market access in France…

China This is the first in a series of articles examining what it takes to be a country manager of a multinational pharma company in some of the world’s most challenging markets. We start in China, where the heads of Merck, Ipsen, Chiesi, Gedeon Richter and AbbVie’s Chinese affiliates give their…

GW Pharma Founded in 1998, GW Pharmaceuticals is a British biopharmaceutical company, best known for being the only company with a license to cultivate cannabis in the UK. True pioneers, they are the producers of Sativex and Epiodiolex, the former being the world’s first prescription medicine derived from the cannabis plant —…

France Abbvie France’s Pierre-Claude Fumoleau outlines his strategic priorities for the affiliate, AbbVie’s unique corporate culture and ethos, and how he envisions upcoming regulatory reforms playing out in France.   We are still a very young company… and that means that we are still very much in the process of constructing…

Egypt Hassan Behnam, managing director of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Egypt explains the investment opportunities Egypt has to offer, examines the close relationship between Egypt and France and highlights the recent visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Egypt.   We at the French Chamber firmly believe…

France Denis Delval, CEO of iconic French pharma firm LFB since December 2017, discusses his key priorities to build the new LFB.   My vision is that we should be strong enough to assume a leadership position in any space that we seek to participate in During his two terms at…

Korea ISU Abxis, a subsidiary of the ISU conglomerate, is a biotech company with a focus on orphan drugs and rare disease. CEO Seok Joo Lee explains the rationale behind his decision to transform ISU Abxis’ international strategy from targeting developing markets to aiming for developed Western markets, such as the…

France Biotest’s Olivier Samama outlines the changes that the takeover of the company has had on the French affiliate, the country’s plasma market and pricing policy.   The product offering remains essentially the same, but we have experienced rapid double-digit growth in the last 3 years in viral infectious disease after…