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pharma Jan Smeitink, CEO of Khondrion, a young biotech company designing highly innovative solutions for people suffering from mitochondrial diseases, provides an overview of the latest developments regarding the company’s lead compound and explains how its talented team and strategic partnership with the Radboud University Medical Centre will help Khondrion to…

pharma The country manager of Roche Diagnostics SA, Rajen Bhimaraj highlights the current gaps in the country’s healthcare system and elaborates on how the company’s various community initiatives, such as AmpliCare and the Roche Scientific Campus, are helping to address those gaps. He also evaluates the role of diagnostics in tackling…

pharma The founder and managing director of LT Clinical Research, one of the first wholly black-owned South African CRO, reveals how South Africa is a very conducive environment for CROs, with a diverse patient population, a well-established regulatory framework and a currency that compares well to other African currencies; why the…

pharma The General Manager of Abbott’s Established Pharmaceuticals Division in South Africa, Gauta Phillip Mavundla illustrates how he is building the division’s presence within the region after the spinoff of AbbVie, while also highlighting branded generics as a key growth driver and how the company plans on expanding its capabilities in…

France The President of France’s Association for CROs (AFCROs) discusses the issues surrounding France’s clinical research sector and the actions that both the public and private sector need to take to maintain their competitiveness. He also discusses his company’s recent merger with Biostatem and their mission to internationalize. While France remains…

pharma CEO of Pantarhei since its inception in 2001, Herjan Coelingh Bennink outlines the company’s vision to develop new applications for existing compounds in the fields of women’s health and oncology with therapies with real medical advantages including a contraceptive pill which does not increase the risk of thrombosis and improved…

Pharma The Director of the newly formed Necker Institute for Sick Children reveals how the inspiration behind INEM was to bring people together in order to create a common scientific policy and campus spirit and why collaboration between clinicians and researchers is crucial in a, which is heavily reliant on scientific…

pharma The Centre for Human Drug Research provides a full range of early stage clinical pharmacology services. The CEO discusses the vision behind the creation of the foundation as well as some of its most recent educational and funding initiatives destined to help biotech companies develop new drugs. You founded the…

Pharma Puerto Rico is not only an important manufacturing hub, but is also positioning itself as a state-of-the-art center for R&D and clinical research. Iván Lugo, the executive director of the Industry University Research Center Inc. (INDUNIV), which brings together private sector, academia and government, discusses some of the island’s most…

Pharma Maribel Rodríguez-Torres of Fundación de Investigación assesses the current R&D situation in Puerto Rico, explains the activities of the center as well as some of their most important success stories. The Fundación is Puerto Rico’s largest research center and the only Phase 1 research clinical trials unit in Latin America and the Caribbean. What is your assessment…

Pharma The head of pharma for Bayer Southern Africa reveals how South Africa plays a key role in Bayer’s African strategy, with more than 60 percent of the continent’s total sales, how South Africa is increasingly becoming responsible for neighboring countries, acting as the gateway to Africa and how in time…

Pharma The President of Fefis, and the recently elected President of Medicen Paris Region, a Paris-based business cluster, talks about the need to build the future of the French health economy, not on past and current assets but to develop new ones; reveals how there is now a growing awareness of the…