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Pfizer Erik Nordkamp, managing director of Pfizer UK, has been confirmed as the new president of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI). With UK life sciences still uncertain as to the full effect of Brexit on the industry, Nordkamp has set the focus of his presidency as ensuring that…

Portugal Portugal’s Minister of Health, Adalberto Campos Fernandes, details his three-tiered plan for national health in Portugal. He explains that empowering citizens, transforming the sector digitally and ensuring that the proximity of care is readily available to the entire nation are vital elements to combatting pressing problems concerning debt, an aging…

Portugal Experienced country manager, João Madeira, introduces Mylan’s new vision to be a global healthcare company serving patients across the world with their hybrid generic, OTC and innovative pharmaceutical business model which in the same breath sustains and innovates the healthcare system. Touching on themes of talent, biosimilars, and Portugal as…

China Dr. Lu Xianping is the founder and now Chairman and CEO of one of China’s few truly innovative biotech companies, ChipScreen BioSciences Co. In this exciting interview, he shares the long journey towards the commercialization of their first cancer drug, Chidamide, launched in China in 2015, ad now awaiting market…

China Scott Liang, president of Apex (Guangzhou) Tools and Orthopedics discusses the company’s strong positioning on the Chinese medtech market, current strategic priorities, and what differentiates Apex from its competitors. As President of Apex (Guangzhou) Tools and Orthopedics and having been with the company since its inception, could you tell us…

Portugal Quilaban, a Portuguese healthcare solutions company located in the Sintra business district of West Lisbon, has been led by Sérgio Luciano for five years. Luciano provides an insightful vision into the future of the healthcare system in Portugal, with reference to automation, international expansion and the significance of putting the…

UK Craig Wallace established the UK affiliate of Santen, the Japanese ophthalmology company, in 2014. Wallace describes the journey Santen has been on so far in the UK, as well as his ambitions to contribute to its goal of becoming a leading global ophthalmology company by 2020.  You set up Santen’s…

Spain Joaquin Rodrigo, general director of Sandoz Spain and Portugal, introduces the company’s highly diversified generics and biosimilars portfolio in the region, gives his thoughts on Spain’s generics market, and outlines the rationale behind the creation of a national biosimilars association, BioSim.   Can you please start by introducing Sandoz and…

Portugal Alnylam, pioneers in the RNA interference field, seek to bring their revolutionary medicine across Europe, and in particular Portugal before 2020. In this interview the new General Manager for Spain and Portugal, Alicia Folgueira Lopez, a rare diseases authority, discusses how to build an affiliate from scratch, the synergies across…

USA Blue-chip drug makers holding USD 200 billion in cash, mostly overseas, will start investing more of it in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) after President Trump’s tax overhaul slashed the cost of spending the money in the US, debt-ratings firm Moody’s predicts. The ratings firm names Amgen, Pfizer, Gilead, and Celgene…

USA Tech giant Amazon’s acquisition of online pharmacy PillPack has caused the stock prices of rival healthcare distributors in the US to fall dramatically. With this move, Amazon has signalled its intent to move into the medical distribution arena and promises to seriously disrupt the way the industry operates. “This acquisition…

Pharma Digital health startups raised over USD six billion in equity financing in 2016, representing a five-year compound annual growth rate of 32 percent and the fledgling industry segment already boasts at least eight unicorns with a combined value exceeding USD 15 billion. Most interesting of all, however, is the constellation…