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China A roundup of some of the biggest pharma and biotech news from China including the collaboration between Elektr and Sinopharm; Biocytogen’s partnership with Janssen and deal with Chipscreen Biosciences; China’s first personalised neoantigen-targeted cancer vaccine approval; the final green light for Sino Biopharm’s purchase of F-star, and AstraZeneca’s deal with…

Global Blue Spoon Consulting’s John G. Singer takes aim at the recent anti-Big Pharma rhetoric around the drug pricing crisis in the US, instead calling for a more holistic view of the situation, acknowledging the role being played by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). More importantly, Singer sees a new approach to…

Greece Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom Marios Themistocleous, secretary general of primary health care at the Greek Ministry of Health, introduces the transformation that primary healthcare in Greece has undergone since the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact that EU RRF funding stands to have. Themistocleous also touches on the administration’s approach to…

Pharma Legal Handbook 1. Which are the main actors involved in public procurement and tendering? There is a high degree of decentralisation in public procurement in Spain. Regarding the public procurement and tendering services of medicinal products there are actors involved at a national level (MOH), regional level (the governments of the Autonomous…

Europe The Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) sector has flousished in recent years as Big Pharma has shifted its attention to its core R&D activities and outsourced other supply chain components, including manufacturing, to independent CDMOs. In Europe the CDMO market is expected to reach a revenue of nearly USD…

LatAm Latin America is renowned for its creative geniuses – think footballers like Lionel Messi and Pelé; magical realist authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende; and ground-breaking artists like Frida Kahlo and Wilfredo Lam. This tradition of creativity permeates the continent’s population, who are well used to dreaming…

Global With the global market for generic drugs expected to reach USD 36.4 billion by 2027 and grow at a CAGR of 5.6 percent over the period 2020-2027, it is not surprising that a number of generics producers continue to rank among the world’s top pharma companies. A look at the…

China A roundup of some of the biggest pharma and biotech news from China including the approval of two domestically developed COVID treatments; Daewoong’s idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis licensing deal, Roche’s gastric cancer partnership with CARsgen; Sino Biopharm’s continued attempt to buyout of F-star Therapeutics and Takeda’s deal with Hutchmed for a…

Global In spite of the spectacular healthcare advances the world has seen in recent decades and increasing evidence that gender equality is not only an ethical necessity, but a decisive component of economic and social development, disparities in women’s health persist. At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, diverse…

UK A roundup of the latest UK healthcare, pharma and biotech news including AbbVie and Lilly’s departure from the country’s voluntary medicines pricing agreement, Moderna’s expanded footprint, UK biotech’s 2022 funding downturn and Gilead’s Yescarta approval from NICE.   Northern Ireland Medicines supply still ‘problematic and inefficient’ (BBC News) According to…

LatAm Latin America is a rapidly growing market for the global medtech industry, offering significant opportunities. With a population of over 650 million people, the region boasts a large and growing middle class that are showing increasing demand for high-quality healthcare services and medical technologies. In recent years, the Latin American…

LatAm Guilherme Marques, president of Siemens Healthineers LatAm, discusses the health tech giant’s regional strategy, covering how the firm rides out the region’s economic and political storms, its participation in disease screening campaigns, digitalisation uptake, oncology integration, and much more.   Despite the uncertainty of [LatAm] markets – due to inflation,…