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France Pierre Banzet, CEO of French CDMO Groupe SYNERLAB, shares how the group has developed over the past three years and discloses his strategy for generating specialty production knowledge as well as expanding the company’s footprint within Europe. Banzet also offers his assessment of key CDMO trends and the current condition…

Korea Bioneer, founded in 1992, lays claim to be Korea’s oldest biotechnology company. President, founder and CEO, Dr Han-Oh Park introduces the technological advances they have developed in molecular research tools, Bioneer’s globally distributed platform of molecular diagnostics, and its novel next-generation RNAi therapeutics platform SAMiRNA TM. Dr Park also comments…

France On February 4 in Paris, Minister of Health and Solidarity Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal, Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance Agnès Pannier-Runacher, and President of the Healthcare Industry Strategic Committee (CSF) and Chairman of the French Federation of Health…

China Even though China’s pharmaceutical sector remains largely generics-based, the Middle Kingdom’s biotechnology scene has been flourishing in recent years. Now the world’s fastest-growing biopharmaceutical market, China can boast a much-improved context in terms of drug regulation, ease of doing business, research capabilities and access to capital. Below, we highlight 5…

Malaysia The growth of the Malaysian pharma market between 2006 and 2016. Pharmaceutical sales grew to over USD 2 billion by 2016, thanks in large part to a burgeoning prescription medicine segment.   The import and export of pharmaeuticals in Malaysia between 2006 and 2016. In 2016, the trade balance stood…

France Stéphane Mathieu CEO for SIGVARIS GROUP’s Europe, South & West operations, discusses taking on a unique challenge as the company pivots towards becoming a fully-fledged health technology provider, and what ‘patient-centricity’ means to him.   The onus is firmly upon medtech players to become much more “patient-centric” in both their…

France Frank Margain, chairman of Paris Region Entreprises, the ‘Invest in Paris Region’ promotion agency, discusses the importance of the life sciences sector for the Paris Region (Ile-de-France in French) and shares how the region is going through a key developmental period in attractivity, digitalization, and infrastructure investment.   Previously, many…

Algeria Adlane Soudani, general manager of Ipsen’s Algerian affiliate, lifts the lid on Ipsen’s ambitions for the local market, and the company’s parallel strategies to ramp up local production while simultaneously delivering tech transfer to local partners.   Our rather distinctive approach is to deploy parallel strategies: we will maintain our…

China China has expanded to be the second largest pharmaceutical market globally with USD 137 billion in total spending in 2018, but growth has slowed from a 19% CAGR in 2008–2013 to an 8% CAGR in 2013–2018 and is expected to continue to decline to 3-6% through 2023, as the below…

India Anay Shukla leads the pharmaceutical, life sciences, med-tech and healthcare practice at Nishith Desai Associates, a leading Indian law firm. In this article, he examines the benefit of the recent policy changes to price controls for innovative drugs in India.  Unlike many other countries, India controls prices of all drugs…

Italy Managing partner of the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills in Italy, Laura Orlando is one of Italy’s leading life sciences specialists, with a focus on IP and regulatory matters.  Together with Sara Balice, one of the firm’s senior associates they examine the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) ruling on…

Switzerland Roche announced strong Group sales growth of seven percent for 2018, partly driven by the launch of MS blockbuster Ocrevus, which CEO Severin Schwan has described as the most successful in the company’s history.   2018 was a good year for Roche. The Swiss-headquartered pharma giant saw seven percent overall…