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Astellas The country manager of a Japanese speciality pharma firm sheds light on his preparations for an eventual opening up of the national reimbursement list and speaks out about how Romania is fast becoming an outlier for organ transplants. How do you evaluate your tenure as country manager of Astellas Romania…

Merck Andrew Wirths arrived to Puerto Rico in 2013 to run Merck’s manufacturing operations on the island. He discusses how dynamic changes within the industry is impacting their competitive nature and recent investments that Merck is making in Puerto Rico’s facilities, which represent a key part of the company’s commercialization process.…

Pfizer The country manager and Global Established Products Business Lead at Pfizer South Africa reveals how the private sector is committed to expanding healthcare for South Africans, why her ambition is to devise different sustainable business models that allow for more affordable medicines, and how Pfizer must crack the emerging market…

Manufacturing The leadership of Turkey’s newest major pharmaceutical player, Pharmactive, discuss the firm’s two pronged growth strategy, detailing their own sales objectives and prospects, as well as the opportunities that they can bring to multinational pharmaceutical companies as a flexible, top-quality pharmaceutical company. Pharmactive has entered the Turkish market with a…

Actelion Turkey has been a high priority market for Actelion since the company’s relatively recent beginnings, and the general manager of the local affiliate discusses his affiliate efforts to improve awareness around this rare disease through open communication with health authorities, and the need for formal recognition of orphan drugs by…

basic research Professor Burak Erman, the leader of the Drug Research Center at Koç University, and his colleague Hakan Orer, discuss the early activities of the center as a catalyst for collaboration and communication between the pharmaceutical industry and academic sciences in Turkey, as well as the center’s achievements so far, including…

biotech Local flagship company Boryung has found success with its newly developed angiotension receptor blocker (ARB) Kanarb. Nine molecules currently exist worldwide in this category of antihypertensives, and Kanarb is currently ranked eighth. “Boryung is the only domestic company that has developed a drug from start to finish, including outlicensing. Of…

association The secretary general of the innovators’ association gives an overview of the current structural challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry in Turkey, and discusses the changes that need to be introduced for the vast potential of the Turkish pharmaceutical industry to be unlocked.   Could you give our readers a brief…

medical devices The CEO and president of Smart Scale explains how the company delivers clever and innovate information technology services to the pharmaceutical industry, acting as a significant partner for both information technology and health care, and fulfilling their mission; ensuring that everyone has a better quality of life. Smart Scale is…

Janssen Eric Alvarez, managing director of Janssen Mexico, explains why it is important to distinguish between the public and private sector when discussing the latest developments in the pharmaceutical industry, and notes how the mindset within the government is beginning to change, seeing investing in healthcare as an investment in the…

infrastructure Dogan Taşkent, president of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Turkey discusses the most successful models for innovation in Turkey, the current status of start-up incubators in the country, and how Turkey can learn from the Swiss model for innovation. What are the main economic challenges that Turkey is facing…

R&D Lundbeck Turkey’s managing director discusses CNS and mental illness in Turkey, and their recent development of manufacturing operations in Turkey for their new product. Given this specialization in and deep knowledge of CNS, how would you assess the Turkish medical systems’ ability to handle mental illness? First of all, when…