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Baltics Kuuno Vaher, market access director Baltics and country lead of AstraZeneca Estonia, discusses the liberal attitude towards innovative and highly needed medicines of Estonian regulators and the crucial importance of closer collaboration with payers, which has led the thriving affiliate to have its portfolio reimbursed in the country. Can you…

Poland Artur Chabowski, president of Mabion, a pioneer Polish biotech player, discusses the historic partnership of their product, MabionCD20 with Mylan for the EU and Baltic states and the opportunities this opens up. Furthermore, he highlights the future potential of the biosimilar market and the company´s plans to design their own…

UK Sarah Haywood, CEO of MedCity, the life science cluster for London, Oxford and Cambridge in the southeast of England, discusses the organization’s strategy, key achievements, Brexit, and supporting SMEs. Why was there a need to create yet another life sciences cluster four years ago? Aren’t there already enough in this…

Baltics Boriss Birmans, country manager of Santen Latvia, discusses the company’s focus on patient-centricity in the country, its ambition to bring in more preservative-free drugs for glaucoma patients and how its market share in Latvia is one of the highest in the entire EU. Can you walk us through Santen’s history…

Poland Markus Sieger, CEO of Polpharma, outlines his global strategy for the company, focused on OTC and CHC, internationalization and a strong R&D strategy to push forward biosimilars. Furthermore, he highlights Polpharma’s digital approach and the company’s long-term vision for sustained success across the region.   Our international markets are growing…

Poland Mariusz Ignatowicz, PwC healthcare sector leader for CEE, discusses the funding of the Polish healthcare ecosystem and the need to find an alternative payer in the long-term Additionally, he highlights PwC’s services and the overall requirement for data to be taken into more consideration in Polish healthcare to ensure accurate…

Poland Colm Murphy, general plant manager of Anpharm, a key European production site for the Servier group, highlights major investments in recent years, such as the state-of-the-art QC Lab, and his strategy to increase the plant’s exports. Additionally, he discusses the growing importance of the company’s CDMO activities and the steps…

Canada John Simmons, VP Sales & Marketing (Health Systems) at Philips Canada talks about the company’s commitment to delivering integrated health technology solutions that provide continuous care across the health continuum. Can you provide an overview of Philips operations in Canada? “Philips Canada is very active in our customer-oriented focus; we…

Baltics Janis Meiksans, general manager at TEVA Baltics, explains how the base of the company’s success is what they call ‘generic evangelism’ and how from being a marketing and distribution organization in the region, they successfully managed to rank number one pharmaceutical company by sales. Janis, can you talk our international…

Ecuador Miguel Pasquel, endocrinologist at Quito’s Metropolitano Hospital and former president of the Ecuadorian Endocrinology Society shares his point of view on the country’s healthcare system. He recognizes the good will of successive governments but regrets their inability to give Ecuadorians access to health across the country, highlighting the differences between…

Poland Krzysztof Kołodziejski, country manager of Santen Poland, discusses the strategy he put in place to modernize the business culture of the affiliate and how this has led to great success. Furthermore, he highlights the challenges being faced by innovative eyecare companies in Poland and the entire healthcare sector, as well…

Canada At the 350th anniversary of the company, Gaby Murphy, EMD Serono’s managing director, gives an insight into the turning point for the affiliate in 2017 with three new Health Canada approvals. Over the last few months, we have witnessed significant changes within the Canadian pharmaceutical landscape, especially in terms of…