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China The latest from Chinese pharma, with dealmaking continuing apace. Featured this week are Zai Lab’s latest IPO listing in Hong Kong, InventisBio Series D financing round for small-molecule drugs, as well as Bioduro and Sundio’s merger to create one of the largest CRDMOs with operations in China and the US.…

Switzerland Switzerland, rightly regarded as one of the world’s most innovative nations, risks damaging its reputation if innovative new medicines continue to face significant delays and roadblocks in their introduction to the domestic Swiss market. Key stakeholders from pharma industry associations Interpharma and scienceindustries and local affiliate heads for multinationals Bayer…

USA As part of our upcoming US Healthcare and Life Sciences Review, we spoke to key stakeholders – former Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) president & CEO Chip Davis; Carol Lynch, president of Sandoz US, head of Sandoz North America and member of the Sandoz Executive Committee; and Amgen’s biosimilars business…

Norway Photo: Sofia Linden / Oslo Cancer Cluster Oncologist Jon Amund Kyte shares some of the groundbreaking immunotherapy research that he and his team is conducting at Oslo University Hospital. Kyte also explores how Norway can better develop its clinical footprint and what his hopes for the future of experimental cancer…

China While the vast majority of the global pharma market still comprises small molecule drugs, the biologics sector has grown rapidly since its inception in the 1980s, and presently, biologics represent a stunning eight out of the top ten best-selling drugs in 2019. In China, this sector has lagged behind developed…

Opinion Drs David Higgins and Marco F Schmidt highlight the gap that exists between the abundant discussions around technological innovation in healthcare and implementation and why pharma needs to develop its own proprietary approaches to crunching ‘wide data’.   Data is the new oil, but biomedical data – despite its abundance…

Opinion In the third of a series of articles chronicling Biogen/Eisai’s Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) treatment aducanumab’s torturous journey to market, Dr Neil Cashman highlights what the next steps in the process will be, why US FDA approval for the drug will pave the way for researchers working on second-generation AD medicines,…

Japan Dr Ken-ichiro Hata, representative director and chairperson of Japan’s Forum for Innovative Regenerative Medicine (FIRM) outlines the organisation’s mandate, how Japan has been able to cultivate one of the world’s most mature regenerative medicine ecosystems, and highlights key challenges including regulatory misalignment across Asia and the need for better manufacturing…

News Roundup The latest from the fight against COVID-19 in Latin America, including J&J’s vaccine trials, issues surrounding Chinese-made diagnostic tests, Colombia’s vaccine manufacturing capacity, and potential compulsory licensing in Brazil.   COVID-19 vaccine: J&J seeks 20,000 trial volunteers in Latin America, one-third of planned global total https://www.businesstoday.in/sectors/pharma/COVID-19-vaccine-jj-seeks-20000-trial-volunteers-in-latin-america/story/415224.html Josue Bacaltchuk, vice president…

Korea Joong Myung Cho of Korean biotech success story CrystalGenomics introduces the company’s unique drug discovery platform, key growth factors, highly promising R&D pipeline, and internationalisation plans.   We were the first Korean biotech to have independently developed, commercialized, marketed and exported an innovative drug Dr Cho, could you start by…

Europe In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis and the subsequent strain placed on medicine supply chains in Europe, Sandoz – the generics arm of global giant Novartis – has moved to strengthen its antibiotics manufacturing presence in Austria.   The planned combined investment of EUR 150 million by Sandoz and…

USA Ivan Cheung, head of Japanese firm Eisai’s US operations, highlights the significance of a potential 2021 US FDA approval for Alzheimer’s Disease drug aducanumab, developed in collaboration with Biogen. Cheung also compares the differing challenges of the oncology and neuroscience markets and outlines the unique Eisai company culture.   We…