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Pharma Takeda’s goal is to become a trusted and reliable partner in the healthcare system by better understanding patients’ needs. Aarnoud Overkamp, general manager of the Dutch subsidiary, shares his perspective on the challenges faced by the local healthcare system, the importance of Takeda-ism in the organization, and finding innovative ways…

Pharma Below is a list of the Top 100 Pharma Companies in Turkey sorted by the total value of sales in USD for 2014. Global giant Novartis is number one in a market worth a total of more than seven billion dollars. Source: IMS Health Click here to read more articles and…

Pharma The chairman of Egypt’s largest holding company for pharmaceutical manufacturers, ACDIMA, shares his vision for how Egyptian manufacturers can enhance their competitiveness in the coming years, and extend their activities further up the value chain into API production and R&D activities. How well prepared are Egyptian companies to compete in…

Pharma Yvonne van Rooy, president of the NVZ, explains the patient’s increasing role as a partner in Dutch healthcare and how greater investment in ICT is needed for the patient to fulfill this role. She further discusses the need for more transparency in the pharmaceutical industry and highlights the need for all stakeholders in the industry to…

Pharma DB Schenker’s Bart Coenen (BC) and Vincent Coolen (VC) explain the company’s Vision 2020 and talk about the benefits for pharma companies of outsourcing their supply chain. In 2013, DB Schenker announced the company’s Vision 2020. Can you please elaborate on this vision? BC: This strategy is about being an eco-pioneer,…

Health Although the country is moving in the right direction with regards to universal coverage, a number of barriers to effective implementation remain. 57.3 million previously uninsured Mexicans are now enrolled in Seguro Popular Gabriel O’Shea, Seguro Popular Healthcare is one of the next items on President Peña Nieto’s busy agenda.…

Pharma Prof. Thierry Philip, President of Institut Curie, is proud of the model that the institute is thriving for: excellent science and research in all forms, from the most basic to applied clinical medicine. As a Cancer Biology Center, it is not only one of the top institutes in France, but…

Pharma By square mile, Puerto Rico has more post-secondary institutions than anywhere in the world. This concentration has led to the development of a number of college and university programs which produce world-class talent for the territory’s life sciences industry. From the manufacturing perspective, one of the leading institutes in Puerto…

Pharma Automation and consolidation have affected pharmaceutical companies worldwide, and Puerto Rico is no exception. The island has benefited from the trend towards lower volume, higher value products which often use the smaller plants Puerto Rico offers. Some companies, like Merck, are transforming their sites from pure manufacturing to commercialization. These trends point to…

Pharma Puerto Rico is starting to move towards greater R&D activity. World class research centers in cardiovascular, oncology, and soon molecular science are putting the territory on the global map for pharmaceutical research. But Puerto Rico is starting to move beyond manufacturing and towards greater R&D activity. Puerto Rico’s Cardiovascular and…

Pharma Dr. Costas Piliounis discusses the importance of containing diabetes, the dampening effects budget ceilings have on companies’ performance and growth potential, as well as the positive influence which changes currently being implemented in the regulatory system will have on the industry moving forward.   Dr. Piliounis, to start off, you…

Pharma Prof. Manuela Battaglia (MB) and  Prof. Lorenzo Piemonti (LP) discuss the positioning of the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) within the San Raffaele Scientific Institute and the global diabetes care community, their respective specialty areas and DRI’s commitment to translational medicine. The Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) is part of the International…