Tagged with Biotech

Korea Quegen Biotech is a company focusing on manufacturing beta-glucan for use in a range of healthcare products, from hangover cures to oncology treatments. In this interview, Dr Jong Dae Lee explains the benefits of beta glucan, and how he managed to overcome the challenges in its extraction to make it…

China Jay Dong, founding GM (China and APAC) and Global VP of Cell Signaling Technology, shares the company’s success in the past ten years; the economic transformation in China driving the growth of the biotech and pharma industries; the cutting-edge solutions and technologies Cell Signaling Technology is committed to providing to…

Spain Teresa Chavarria Gimenez, director general of planning, research and training at the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid, highlights her role and the BioMad initiative as they look to position Madrid on the European and global biotech map.   We want to facilitate the collaboration of the public…

Korea Dr Kyung Sook Kim, CEO of Corestem, explains how her company has been pioneering the Korean stem cell industry since its foundation in 2003. She also discusses reimbursement and regulation issues that come along this expensive and complex technology and shows how stem cell therapies can be better included in…

China Harbour BioMed is a fast-growing global biotech company with facilities in Rotterdam, Boston and Shanghai. The company is laser-focused on developing both proprietary and in-licensed immunological therapies using their state-of-the-art transgenic mice technology platforms, which it also licenses to other biotechs. CEO Dr. Jingsong Wang discusses the firm’s strategy, its…

China While others have failed during the last 30 years, Hua Medicine has finally succeeded in developing a breakthrough diabetes treatment controlling blood glucose levels by taking a novel approach and modulating the glucokinase enzyme. The company is now applying the same principles to develop treatments for CNS disorders. Hua Medicine’s…

China One of the earliest innovative biotech companies in China, Zensun has developed what its founder Dr Zhou Mingdong calls a rare made-in-China first-in-class therapeutic candidate, the cardiology treatment, Neucardin®. With regulatory approval in the bag, Zensun is now expanding its new drug development to therapeutics for ageing-related diseases associated with…

Opinion Brian Hilberdink, President of Novo Nordisk Canada, calls for the Canadian government to encourage and invest in innovative biopharmaceutical companies in Canada.    I’ve often wondered how things would be if Canada had steadily continued a path of biopharmaceutical discovery and commercialization after Banting and Best’s breakthrough in 1921, and what…

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…

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…

China Terns Pharmaceuticals is developing innovative drugs for the treatment of NASH and liver disease. It has established a diverse product pipeline with drug candidates targeting different stages of the disease and with complementary mechanisms of action, through partnerships with global pharma companies as well as in-house discovery efforts. With offices…