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Spain Ines Perea, general manager for Spain and Portugal at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with limited or no options in the areas of sleep and hematology/oncology, discusses her progress over the last 14 months in nurturing the local affiliate and the importance…

China TJ Deng, GM China and BioDuro Discovery; and Ian Wisenberg, CFO of BioDuro, share the strategic rationale behind Advent International’s 2019 investment into the company; the focus of BioDuro 4.0 on growth, particularly in the US and Chinese markets; the differentiated and value-added services BioDuro can offer clients; and their…

Egypt Amro Kandil, managing director of Northeast Africa at GE Healthcare, emphasizes the company’s crucial role in improving healthcare in Egypt as part of a long-standing partnership with the Ministry of Health. He also explains why he has established education and after-sales services as two of his priorities leading the regional…

Europe Bringing together insights from the heads of some of Europe’s most prominent mid-cap pharma firms. The leaders of Ipsen, Genmab, Pierre Fabre, Esteve and Servier outline the strategic directions in which their companies are turning and how they are planning to ensure a successful future.   David Meek, Ipsen David…

Egypt Ramez Mohsen, managing director at Janssen for Egypt, Jordan, Libya & Sudan, highlights how the company is driving real access to treatments in Egypt through collaboration with various stakeholders. He also assesses Egypt’s attractiveness for clinical trials and the initial results of the government’s prioritization of healthcare.   As the…

France Inventiva is a French clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing oral small molecule epigenetic modulators in therapeutic areas with high unmet medical needs such as fibrosis, lysosomal storage disorders and oncology. Its most advanced program is a first-in-class drug candidate against NASH. Inventiva’s chairman, CEO and co-founder, Frédéric Cren, explains…

Egypt Ashraf Osman, president and CEO of AUG Pharma, explains how his company has become one of Egypt’s Top 30 pharmaceutical companies in less than four years of manufacturing, gives an insight into the branding strategy of an industry newcomer, and outlines the company’s export strategy.   In 2018 alone we…

Spain Miriam Rodriguez, general manager of Aspen Pharmacare Iberia, highlights the steps she has taken to set up the affiliate and how her past experiences have helped her. Furthermore, she breaks down the operations of Aspen in Spain and gives advice to women beginning their career in healthcare   Especially in…

France Inotrem is a French biotech company developing a novel approach to target inflammatory diseases based on the TREM-1 pathway. Its CEO, Dr Jean-Jacques Garaud explains why he decided to leave Big Pharma for biotech, lays out Inotrem’s recent milestones, and outlines his internationalization strategy.   The TREM-1 pathway can be…

Spain Marc Comas, managing director of Accord Healthcare Iberia, highlights the footprint of the company as the leading generics and biosimilars player in the Spanish hospital sector and how his early strategy when founding the affiliate has set them up for long-term success. Furthermore, he points out the dynamics of the…

Opinion Cerecin’s Charles Stacey looks at the large unmet medical need in diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), the looming socioeconomic burden that these diseases represent, and the innovative solutions needed to counter it.   45 percent of the patient population in neurology remains unserved – they either have no…

France Anne-Laurence Sabatini, vice president of Cluster France, Canada & Benelux at LEO Pharma, discusses the transformation of the company and how this has trickled down to her cluster. Furthermore, she talks about the strategic importance of France and the steps LEO Pharma is taking to be the preferred medical dermatology…