Tagged with pharmaceuticals

Greece With extensive experience in the field of health economics, IOBE’s Head of the Health Economics Observatory, Thanos Athanasiadis, discusses the background of the organization, the state of the pharmaceutical market in Greece, and the existing challenges and opportunities in the country. To begin, could you please give an overview of…

Taiwan Grace Yeh, Founder, President, and CEO of PharmaEngine, one of the most eye-catching success stories to recently emerge from Taiwan’s maturing biopharmaceutical sector, documents the main success factors that have allowed PharmaEngine to become the first Taiwan-based company to receive FDA approval for a locally-developed oncology treatment, as well as…

Switzerland Switzerland may have a world class healthcare system, but small adjustments are needed to ensure incentives for payer and providers are properly aligned with the patient’s ultimate quality and value of care. Dr. Cassis, could you please introduce yourself, with reference to your experience and current responsibilities in the realm…

Switzerland Advances in delivery technology and manufacturing costs have driven a surge of activity in peptide drug development, says Thomas Früh, CEO of Bachem –  the largest and most advanced peptide drug CMO in the world. Peptide therapeutics are a hot topic in the pharma industry today – what’s the story…

Philippines In an exclusive interview with Nestor Lumanas, the founder and general manager of Sannovex in the Philippines, he highlights their impeccable sales force and consistent values that have led to accelerated growth for the generic injections company over the past six years. With over 25 years of experience working in…

Singapore In an exclusive interview, Zuellig Pharma CEO John Davison provides insight into the new Zuellig Health Solutions unit that is providing strategic, topline-focused services in order to support Pharma companies in the region. He highlights the challenges the industry faces in penetrating the market and how Zuellig Pharma is closing…

Philippines Ebb Hinchliffe, Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, discusses the Chamber’s current advocacy efforts in the country and their strategic objectives moving forward in terms of increasing the already strong business ties between the United States and the Philippines. He also discusses the potential for…

Switzerland Outsourcing of API synthesis has stabilized in the decade since Rohner Chem entered the pharma sector in earnest, and according to CEO Daniel Pedrett the company has reached a position where it is faster, more agile and more experienced than the internal supply organizations of many mid-sized innovators. You were…

London Among the assorted pharma CEOs and KOLs gathered at the recent Financial Times Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference in London, debate raged on the pros and cons of a pure play strategy, focusing on a few key therapeutic areas, compared to a more diversified approach. If the 1990s and early 2000s, were all…

Singapore Boehringer Ingelheim’s (BI) country managing director in South East Asia and South Korea (SEASK), Gerrard McKenna characterizes the recent changes within the family-owned business as “evolutionary” in nature, while highlighting the key role that Singapore plays in capitalizing on the blossoming opportunities in the region. It seems it’s been a…

France Shedding light on the unique business model of French pharma’s most successful mid-cap.   Not long ago, Laboratories Servier was considered a somewhat mysterious and opaque actor on the world pharmaceuticals stage. Privately owned, smaller and sleeker than many of its direct competitors, but nonetheless formidably successful, Servier has, for…

Slovakia The basics on the country of Slovakia: name, date of independence, geography, population, currency, language, and capital. Slovakia is well integrated into the international community, with membership of the majority of large transnational institutions. Slovakia is located at the heart of Europe, within a short flight of almost every other…