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Pharma Enrico Allievi, President of the Italian OTC (Over The Counter) association, Assosalute, talks about the state of the OTC market in Italy, as well as the association’s role in creating value for its members and his outlook for the next five years. Enrico, to start off, could you explain Assosalute’s…

Pharma The CEO of Medicen Paris Region, the biopharma cluster for the Paris region, discusses her vision to develop a world-class cluster and act as a catalyst for innovation; her international partnership strategy and how her diverse background in engineering, medicine and a variety of companies has equipped her to lead…

Pharma Théa’s Jean-Frederic Chibret reveals how as a company focused purely on ophthalmology, they have the expertise to focus on niche areas that big pharma companies neglect; how they are the third largest pharma ophthalmic company in Europe, and the only pan-European ophthalmic company to have its headquarters on the continent, and…

Pharma Mr Truelle, the CEO of CDM Lavoisier, a company specialized in the pharmaceutical manufacturing of injectable solutions, reveals that one third of the French population could receive one of the company’s products each year, talks about their extremely promising partnership with the Danish company Coloplast, and why partners from beyond…

Pharma Bernard Vanhove, CEO and Maryvonne Hiance, Chairman of Effimune, an immune regulation biotech, discuss their novel approach to developing immunotherapies, their partnership and commercialization strategies, their perspective on the landscape of immunotherapy as well as the evolution of the French biotech environment, and finally, their mission to position Effimune as…

Pharma Dr. Anna Maria Porrini, President of Boehringer Ingelheim Italy shares her vision for the company, how she intends to achieve it and where she sees opportunities for the company’s success in the market. Dr. Porrini, since we last spoke in 2009, Boehringer Ingelheim Italy has weathered the crisis and emerged…

Pharma Antonino Reale, who has managed Daiichi-Sankyo Italy for the last 12 years, explains the reasoning and strategy behind the company’s almost total restructuring in 2013, including how this has given birth to a new, more agile organization with high engagement amongst its employees, as well as where he believes the…

Pharma Gabriele Baccelli shares his journey of setting up a lean organization at a time of crisis, the management decisions he took in order to navigate this environment and how he set the company in a strong position moving forward. Mr. Baccelli, you founded the Italian subsidiary in 2009, entering a mature…

Pharma The Italian Medicines Agency, AIFA, sits at a crossroads. Its Director-General Prof. Luca Pani discusses the apparent contradiction in the agency’s mission at a time of constricting budgets and expensive medicines, how the agency’s role is evolving in response and in which ways the agency can collaborate with the industry.…

Pharma Dominique Costantini, the CEO of OSE Pharma, a French biotech company developing immunotherapy products against late-stage (invasive and metastatic) cancer discusses the company’s unique targeted approach based on a patented neo-epitopes combination, its plans to break into the immuno-oncology domain and its perspectives on the French regulatory and biotech environments, and emphasizes…

Pharma A well-established player in the Allergy market, the Dutch company HAL Allergy recently expanded its activities with the addition of its HALIX Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing (CMO) arm. CEO Harry Flore highlights how the complete package and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) experience offered by HALIX, along with the company’s long-standing in-house…

pharma The President of Pfizer France reveals how the biggest challenge the French pharma industry faces is to gain credit for its contribution to improve people´s quality of life; why France is and will always be important for any large pharma company, despite some particular challenges; and how France´s unique strength…