Tagged with DIA

UK Writing in the September 2025 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Janet Messer, Catherine Blewett, and Naho Yamazaki of the UK Health Research Authority (HRA) and Stephen Lam, Crina Cacou, Anthony Carter, and Sara Rajendran of the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), lay out how UK clinical…

Japan Writing in the September 2025 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Seiko Usami, Shinichi Noda, Daisuke Koga, and Naoyuki Yasuda of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Japan’s regulatory body, outline the benefits for global pharma of including Japan in their drug development activities.   Japan is one of…

USA Marwan Fathallah, President and CEO of DIA, outlines how the organisation has evolved into a neutral platform bringing together regulators, industry, and academia to navigate the most pressing issues in healthcare and life sciences. From the transformative potential of AI to the realities of drug pricing, onshoring, and global competition,…

Denmark With decades of experience across nuclear medicine, oncology, and clinical development, Dr Nicholas Borys now leads MedTrace through a pivotal phase as interim CEO and Chief Medical Officer. The Danish company is advancing a novel platform that enables real-time production of oxygen-15 labelled water – a tracer long considered the…

China Chinese biopharma innovators are making real progress toward global expansion. However, as Vera Zhang of Bristol-Myers Squibb (China) Investment Co., Ltd. writes in DIA’s Global Forum magazine, moving beyond exporting products to building real global brands means investing in strategic international talent acquisition and well-defined roles, all underpinned by a…

Europe The EU’s Health Technology Assessment Regulation (HTAR), which kicked off in January 2025, has launched joint clinical assessments (JCAs) for oncology and advanced therapies; yet six months in, implementation remains rocky, communication is patchy, and the wider impact on access and innovation is still murky. Writing in DIA’s Global Forum…

France Etienne Tichit has dedicated over five years to steering Novo Nordisk France through a transformative period of unprecedented growth and strategic realignment. His tenure has been marked by bold industrial investments exceeding EUR 2.3 billion, the establishment of France as a global manufacturing hub for next-generation diabetes and obesity treatments,…

Switzerland As kidney disease places mounting pressure on global healthcare systems, innovation in dialysis becomes all the more critical, especially for patients receiving therapy at home. Enter Vivatum: a Swiss-Swedish medtech venture co-founded by industry expert Daniel Maechler, dedicated to reimagining Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) through digital precision, intuitive design,…

Denmark After years abroad, Radiometer’s President and CEO, Francis Van Parys, returned to Europe to lead one of Denmark’s most historic MedTech companies into its next chapter. In this interview, he discusses how Radiometer is redefining its role, moving beyond instrumentation to become a driver of time-sensitive clinical decisions through digital…

Africa Writing in the July 2025 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Alex Juma Ismail of the African Union Development Agency – New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) and Vicki Gold, a consultant to the Gates Foundation, unveil the “Continental List of Human Medicinal Products” pilot—a first-of-its-kind initiative led by the…

Global Writing in the July 2025 edition of DIA Global Forum, Samantha Holmes, Fiona Adshead, and Keith Moore of the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition explore how cross-sector partnerships are advancing environmental sustainability in healthcare. They highlight real-world examples—from GSK’s Carbon Neutral Lab to the SMI Health Systems Task Force; showing how collaboration…

Switzerland In the age of AI-fuelled promises and digital transformation, SOPHiA GENETICS stands apart, not by chasing trends but by quietly reshaping how healthcare systems use data to deliver more precise, equitable, and timely care. From enabling cloud-native genomics in hospitals worldwide to advancing decentralised liquid biopsy, the company is building…