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Puerto Rico The top 20 pharmaceutical companies in Puerto Rico in the year leading up to December 2017 ranked by sales, with the top 20 companies in the USA for comparison. Lilly leads the pack in Puerto Rico with annual sales of USD 250 million, followed by AbbVie and Sanofi Aventis.  …

Biotech China’s rapidly-growing biotech sector is increasingly hungry for preclinical drug candidates to commercialise in China, and Chinese companies are spending top dollar for cutting-edge technology from the US and UK. Despite mounting US-China tensions in the life sciences, the demand remains strong for cross-border licensing deals, which are raising drug…

Sweden Sweden, home of IKEA, Pippi Longstocking and Abba, is one of Europe’s most innovative and forward-thinking nations in the healthcare and life sciences sphere. Here are five top facts to know about Sweden.   Sweden holds one of the most comprehensive sets of patient registries in the world These are…

Puerto Rico José F Rodríguez Orengo is the CEO and Chief Scientific Officer at the Fundación de Investigación (FDI) Clinical Trials, Puerto Rico’s main clinical research centre. In this interview, Rodríguez Orengo highlights his priorities of extending the capabilities and also becoming active in the space of public health. He also discusses…

Sweden Niklas Hedberg is both chair of EUnetHTA Executive Board (a branch of the European Commission) and chief pharmacist at the Swedish Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (TLV). EUnetHTA aids European Union member states in conducting Health Technology Assessments (HTAs). Hedberg outlines the function EUnetHTA plays in the European Commission along…

Thailand Brijesh Sawlani, general manager for North ASEAN Thailand, Myanmar and Indochina at bioMérieux, discusses current opportunities for the Thai affiliate, the competitive landscape in Thailand, his key strategic objective to foster long-term growth, and the innovative solutions that bioMérieux is bringing to the country.   At bioMérieux, we keep in…

China Dr Dafang Zhong, director of Shanghai Center for Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Research at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, shares his professional career within the DMPK space, as well as the important work that the Center has done in contributing to the growth and development…

Thailand Dr Jadej Thammatacharee, deputy secretary general of the Thai National Health Security Office (NHSO), outlines the evolution of Thailand’s universal healthcare coverage program, the challenges inherent in its implementation, and the Thai government’s commitment to working with industry to overcome them.   We believe that every Thai should feel secure,…

Taiwan Eric Yang, secretary general of the Taiwan Precision Medical and Molecular Diagnostics Industry Association (PMMD), speaks about the key challenges facing the sector and the top priorities of the organization and its member companies. Yang goes on to share his insights on the opportunities that exist for precision medicine and…

Biotech Taiwan has long been a leader in biotechnology research and development. With the government’s emphasis on higher education and research, Taiwan has trained a diverse pool of talent in the scientific and technical fields, which is what is required to drive innovation in multidisciplinary biomedical research. PwC estimated that biotech…

Opinion Veeva Systems Europe’s Paul Attridge highlights how a switch to a continuous model for regulatory operations could allow biopharmaceutical companies to submit high-quality regulatory submissions for their products faster than ever before.   Like continuous manufacturing, which is widely employed in other industries and is starting to show signs of…

USA PwC’s Kelly Barnes examines how the US pharmaceutical sector is having to rethink its relationship with consumers, experimenting with new and innovative pricing models, and adopting a more holistic view of the patients using their medicines.   American consumers want more than just lower prices from pharmaceutical companies US Consumers…