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Saudi Arabia SaudiVax intends to be the premier developer, manufacturer, and supplier of vaccines and biologics in Saudi Arabia and the MENA region, including halal vaccines. Co-Founder and Managing Director Professor Mazen Hassanain comments on the company’s ambitions, the opportunity that halal vaccines represent, how its J&J partnership will create the first…

Spain mAbxience’s CEO Emmanuelle Lepine highlights the company’s international expansion into highly regulated markets, new investment into its Spanish manufacturing facility, and its partnership with AstraZeneca on COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in Argentina. As representatives from the US FDA carried out a Good Clinical Practice inspection in an adjacent office, Lepine outlined…

Global 2021 saw PharmaBoardroom’s network of executives and experts weighing in on some of the most pressing issues facing our industry today. See below for five of the most thought-provoking pieces, ranging from patient engagement to access solutions, infrastructure building, biomarkers, and sustainability.   A ‘Bold Vision’ of Patient Engagement The…

Saudi Arabia Emcure’s Senior VP for the Middle East, North & West Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan & Turkey, Amr El-Neklawy, highlights the level of organizational independence given to his region, the necessity of agility and focus when competing in the generics market, and how the Indian multinational is standing out by offering its…

Global PharmaBoardroom’s ten most-read executive interviews of 2021 reflect the wide scope – in terms of both geography and value chain – that our work has taken on in the past 12 months. From one of Asia’s leading regulatory bodies to some of the Middle East’s most dynamic emerging companies via…

Denmark Europe lags behind the US in terms of biotech success stories, but one company bucking that trend is Denmark-headquartered Genmab, with a market cap of over USD 25 billion. Dual-listed on the Copenhagen stock exchange and on NASDAQ in the US, there are five products based on Genmab science on…

Spain According to recent IQVIA and industry association reports, the Spanish pharma market, valued at EUR 21.6 billion per year, continues to grow at a relatively slow pace. Other key trends include the fact that generics penetration in Spain has remained at a constant level for almost seven years and private…

China The latest news from Chinese pharma, including an examination of the new national reimbursement drug list (NRDL), the therapies that have and have not made it onto the list, and the significant price cuts that have been agreed. Also included are the World Health Organization (WHO)’s plea to Chinese COVID-19…

China The phenomenal success of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines has catapulted messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines into public consciousness, and mRNA technology is today receiving more scientific and financial attention than ever before. Suzhou, China-based biotech Abogen, for example, which has an mRNA-based COVID vaccine in late-stage development, has received…

Spain A rundown of five things to know about the healthcare and life sciences industry in Catalonia. Nestled in Northeastern Spain and bordering France, Catalonia’s capital and largest city is Barcelona. The region boasts a strong scientific output by European standards, is the birthplace of many of Spain’s pharma success stories,…

Denmark Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom, Jan van de Winkel highlights the tremendous progress that European biotech success story Genmab has made over the past six years, how its partnership model is evolving, Denmark’s continuing relevance to the company, and Genmab’s value proposition for the next generation of talent.   Genmab has…

Global In conversation at the FT’s Global Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Conference last month, Sandoz CEO Richard Saynor outlined the current status of the biosimilars industry, the differences between the European and US markets, the advantages of being part of a large science-based innovator like Novartis, and why competition in biosimilars will…