Tagged with Lilly

Italy Italy is a key destination for global clinical trial programs with EUR 700 million invested in 2020 alone according to national industry association Farmindustria, bringing access to medicines, knowledge, skills, and economic benefits. Here, Italy country managers from some of the world’s leading pharma companies weigh in on the pros…

Spain Lilly’s Nabil Daoud highlights the evolution in the firm’s Spanish manufacturing and R&D footprint in recent years, discussed launch plans for its next-generation diabetes and obesity treatments, and outlines some of the key trends currently impacting healthcare in Spain.   Four years ago, a molecule discovered and designed by scientists…

Italy Lilly’s president and general manager for its Italy hub, Huzur Devletsah, explains the company’s broad footprint in the country – where Lilly maintains a large manufacturing site that produces over half of their global insulin output and from which it oversees 28 countries. In addition, she comments on the upcoming…

Mexico The latest from Mexican pharma, including government talks with Indian authorities to provide low-cost medicines, a new distribution pilot program led by the military, the authorization of two Lilly monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 and Bayer’s LatAm general manager comments on providing regional doctors with “the Netflix of medical information”…

Saudi Arabia Dr Mona Obaid, chief medical officer for Lilly in Saudi Arabia, explains how the country’s Vision 2030 is shaping the pharma industry and society at large, Lilly’s role in increasing awareness of diabetes, and the opportunities for Saudi in regional clinical trials.   There is a huge opportunity ahead for…

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world – over 17 percent of the population are diabetic – making the supply of insulin products a matter of significant national interest. To this end, the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between historic US diabetes leader…

China The latest news from Chinese pharma and biotech, including news that state-owned Sinopharm is now developing its own mRNA vaccine; an update on Hong Kong’s biotech investment ecosystem three year on from allowing pre-revenue biotechs to list on HKEX; and another big global investment from Swiss CDMO Lonza, this time…

China The latest news from Chinese pharma, including Fosun Pharma’s 2021 interim results; how AstraZeneca, Bayer, Eli Lilly, Merck & Co., Novartis, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi have achieved China growth in the first half of the year despite pricing squeezes on their mature brands; and why Bayer sees huge growth potential…

Saudi Arabia Having commenced his journey with American giant Lilly in 2008, and after almost eight years working in the company’s Japan organization, mostly on digital marketing, Dimitri Livadas crossed the Pacific Ocean to work in Lilly’s home market and the largest pharma market in the world, the United States, first in…

Saudi Arabia Clinical trials provide a pathway to innovation for clinicians and patients in countries like Saudi Arabia and form a key element of the country’s Vision 2030 national plan. As Saudi transitions away from oil towards becoming a knowledge-based economy, it is hoping to attract ever more international pharma companies to…

Saudi Arabia As part of Saudi Arabia’s ambitious ‘Vision 2030’ economic transformation plan, the country has centralised the public procurement of medications through the National Unified Procurement Company for Medical Supplies (NUPCO). Here, some of the Kingdom’s most prominent pharma leaders weigh in on the impact of this new system for their…

Saudi Arabia Lilly Saudi Arabia’s Dimitri Livadas shares some of the misconceptions he had before moving to the Kingdom a couple of years ago, highlights the evolution of the Saudi healthcare system with its current focus on digital health, the big opportunities for the Indiana-based company’s diabetes portfolio at a moment when…