Tagged with Innovation

Taiwan Leveraging Taiwan’s remarkable talent pool in chemistry, some of the country’s fastest-growing companies have been concentrating their efforts on technology platforms that allow them to develop a plethora of potentially game-changing products, rather than focusing all their resources on the risky development of a single, potentially groundbreaking product.   Taiwan…

Taiwan Founded in 2012, Senhwa Biosciences is mainly engaged in the development and clinical study of small molecule drugs to treat various types of cancer, and its drug development pipelines include CX-5461, a first-in-class drug using G-quadruplex (G4) stabilizer as a mechanism as well as the casein kinase 2 (CK2) inhibitor…

Mexico By his own admission. Metrohm CEO Jodok Reinhardt has a dream job. He reveals how the company has become a successful and slightly different outfit when it comes to supplying the very latest chemical analysis instruments. Metrohm has grown from a start-up in the 1940s to one of the most…

Switzerland Gabriel Haering, CEO of API manufacturer Cerbios, highlights the importance of “Swiss-ness” to the company’s brand, their attentiveness to diversification and scaling the value chain, and the future prospects for Swiss CMOs. Cerbios is renowned for its expertise in the process development and contract manufacturing of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and…

Taiwan Wayne Wang, director general of Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), the country’s largest and oldest innovation cluster and the first in Taiwan to establish a science park exclusively dedicated to the life sciences industry, documents the potential of HSP as a world-class eco-system for start-ups, local and international mature companies, prestigious…

Switzerland The Chief Scientific Officer and President of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Swiss R&D Center elaborates on Glenmark’s endeavor to venture up the pharmaceutical value chain and discusses the company’s R&D strategy. Furthermore, he highlights the significance of strategic partnerships in today’s pharmaceutical R&D efforts. You have spent 23 years working in large…

Taiwan Jui-Lin Chen, CEO of MiCareo, provides insights into the development of MiSelect, Micareo’s pioneering platform for the analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) and other rare cells, which proudly stands as the best product available to physicians for cancer prognosis as well as the perfect companion diagnostic for drug development…

Switzerland The most innovative country in the world must constantly launch new initiatives to attract R&D activities if that lead is to be maintained, and Switzerland Innovation is doing just that – by showcasing the opportunities that the Swiss Innovation Park holds for innovative companies around the world. Switzerland Innovation was…

Taiwan Chen Min-Che, founder and managing director of Asclepiumm, provides insights into the main milestones reached and the new partnership opportunities considered by this exciting biotech company, whose Antibody Switch-on Cytotoxicity (ASC) technology platform could contribute to bringing onto the global market a novel class of “smart cell-penetrating proteins” in multiple…

Switzerland Switzerland has been long-established as one of the world’s most innovative countries and boasts a thriving ecosystem of startup biotechs. However, a slow and complex funding cycle means that an increasing number of Swiss biotechs are looking towards the US for funding; a trend that risks destabilising and weakening the…

Switzerland Recognized as one of the ten most innovative companies in the world, Hamilton has a regional HQ, strategic R&D and manufacturing operations tucked high away in the scenic Swiss Alps. Andreas Wieland, CEO of Hamilton’s Swiss businesses, discusses the company’s approach to innovation and the factors that have helped Switzerland…

Taiwan Mike Exton, Managing Director at Novartis Taiwan, describes the affiliate’s plans to increase collaboration with the government in order to provide Taiwanese patients with a greater access to innovative, life-changing products, while highlighting Novartis’ world-class innovation in many critical therapeutic areas, such as heart failure, as well as the skilled…