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Germany Peter Homberg of Dentons Germany examines the regulatory status quo around the free sale of products containing cannabidiol (CBD) across Europe. Although deregulation efforts are underway, Homberg argues that the trade in these products is not as free and unregulated as it may initially seem.   CBD products that are…

Rankings A new report from specialist pharma and biotech consultancy Novasecta explores how the world’s top 100 pharma companies are shaping the future of healthcare. Through an examination of the various business models and key value drivers being applied by the top 100, a picture emerges of the successful modern pharma…

Rankings A new report from specialist pharma and biotech consultancy Novasecta explores how the world’s top 100 pharma companies are shaping the future of healthcare. Novasecta’s Global 100 is based on total group revenues (2018) of all organisations that have pharmaceutical interests, with the aim of benchmarking industry performance in its fullest context.    …

Opinion The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy-Making Act, recently signed into law in the USA, stands to make government data more accessible; thereby allowing researchers, statisticians and others inside and outside of government to make better, and evidenced-based, policy decisions. Carla Smith outlines the scope of the Act and its potential implications…

France Martine Claret of Horus Pharma – a family-owned ophthalmology pharmaceutical company established in 2003 and based in Nice – discusses the highly regulated and competitive ophthalmology market, the company’s remarkable recent growth, and the state of play for SMEs in France today.   We as a flexible medium-sized company have…

China Lorena Di Carlo, a Lundbeck veteran, shares her first impressions of her six months as general manager of Lundbeck China, the strategic significance of China to Lundbeck’s global organization, the company’s commitment to patient-centricity, disease awareness and medical education in the area of brain diseases, and her strategic priorities for…

France Faten Hidri, VP for Higher Education & Research in the Paris Region (Ile de France), discusses the vital role of academic research and the life sciences in her region and ongoing collaboration with other European stakeholders.   While the Paris region is the European leader in terms of patent filings,…

China China’s unbridled growth has spurred a vast number of overseas Chinese to return home to seek new opportunities in their transformed homeland. Affectionately known as ‘sea turtles’ because the Chinese characters for ‘returning from overseas’ are homonyms for the Chinese characters for ‘sea turtles’, this influx has ignited the country’s…

Spain Ian Wilders, managing director of Labo’Life, a Spanish micro-immunotherapy specialist, discusses the company’s history and the importance of regulatory reform in giving them greater market access and shifting the mindset of doctors. Furthermore, he touches on the company’s international strategy and the importance of a personalized care approach.   Our…

France Pascal Girin, CEO of BALT, shares how his rich career in neurovascular medical technology helped him to transform the company from a small R&D pure player into an international market leader. Girin goes on to explain the high key growth strategy he is implementing and the impact that BALT’s products…

China Dr John Yu, co-founder and CEO of CGeneTech, shares the exciting story behind the company’s establishment in 2010; its balanced philosophy on new drug development and the progress of their flagship Cetagliptin, a Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor of diabetes drug in Phase I clinical trials at the moment; the importance…

Cannabis OPINION: Keith Wolsko and Danielle Moore of cannabis industry recruitment specialists Simply Kind Solutions highlight the seismic recent growth of the USA’s burgeoning cannabis industry and the kinds of profiles that the industry is looking for.   We are witnessing the birth of the next great American industry. So, you…