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Taiwan Dr Chien-Huang Lin, tenth president of Taipei Medical University, shares his personal mission upon taking the role, elaborates on the research strengths of TMU, and goes on to discuss the university’s unique commitment to translational research, innovation collaboration, and talent development.   The cancer space is very large, and we…

Puerto Rico Dr David Lenihan, president of Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU) in Puerto Rico, highlights the crucial role the institution plays in tackling the cultural deficit in healthcare on the US mainland as the Hispanic population increases. Lenihan also touches on how Puerto Rico can help counter the shortage of physicians…

Taiwan Dr Fu-Tong Liu, vice president of Academia Sinica, introduces the institution and its research mission of promoting basic research and enhancing translation. Dr Liu goes on to describe Academia Sinica’s biomedical research environment and also highlights the new National Biotechnology Research Park which will have a vital role in developing…

Sweden IML is an industry association for innovative small and medium-sized companies active in Sweden that research new pharmaceuticals and advanced medical technology products. Managing Director Johan Järte explains how the association tries to create better conditions for its members, the main hurdles life sciences SMEs are facing, and shares his expectations…

Taiwan Betty Li, managing director of PPC, a well-positioned leader in the APAC CRO landscape, speaks about the strategic significance of the group’s Taiwan affiliate and goes on to share her views on Taiwan’s increasingly attractive clinical trial landscape. Li concludes by explaining how Taiwan and PPC can be a top…

China Junshi Biosciences is an innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company with a focus on discovery and innovative drugs. Dr Li Ning, CEO, discusses being the first Chinese company to successfully launch a domestically-developed PD-1 cancer drug (toripalimab) in China, their commercialization and pricing strategies and the exciting new products and milestones that we…

Lithuania With the end of the Lithuanian Parliament’s Spring Session, a period of neverending discussions and misunderstandings has ended too, as the Parliament and the Ministry of Health have finally adopted a new medicines reimbursement system, writes Ruta Pumputienė.   Lithuanian Ministry of Health deserves compliments for getting involved in the…

Puerto Rico Iris and Tom Vincent, president and vice president of Prime Air Corp, discuss how the pharma and medical devices logistics company is growing by more than 20 percent per year through a highly customer-centric offer, which has also improved the business continuity plans of its clients. Currently constructing the island’s…

Medicine The WHO has published its most recent edition of the Essential Medicines List in July 2019. On the list are 28 new medicines for adults, making a total of 460 total medicines deemed essential, the highest number ever recorded. Below are the 28 new medicines and a graph of number…

Thailand Peter Streibl, general manager of Takeda Thailand, highlights the importance of emerging markets for Takeda globally, as well as the 50–year long commitment of Takeda to Thailand and Thai patients. Streibl further discusses how the Takeda Thailand team has worked to bring crucial innovative products and solutions in various therapeutic…

Opinion Much has been made of how Big Pharma needs to learn from Big Tech in order to fully adapt to the digital age. Here, pharma industry veteran Richard Bergström argues that, in fact, the technology industry has much to learn from the pharmaceutical industry and that biopharma is well-placed to…

Taiwan Lily Wu, CEO of PapiVax, discusses the biotechs initiative pipeline for the treatment of HPV related diseases and cancers and goes on to elaborate the company’s development and future partnership strategies. Wu also discusses the unique structure of PapiVax as a lean, R&D and research-driven biotech which is powered by…