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Italy As the European Union’s largest beneficiary of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) package, aimed at boosting the EU’s economy following the COVID-19 pandemic, Italy will receive some EUR 235 billion in grants and loans over the lifetime of its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). With respect to healthcare, the…

Egypt Roche Pharma General Manager in Egypt Mohamed Swilam shares his experience implementing a new operational model that is “challenging the status quo” of the pharma industry. He also explains the changing dynamics of the Egyptian pharma market – the fastest growing in the Middle East and Africa region – and…

Switzerland Roche slipped from second to fifth place in this year’s ranking of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies, reported uninspiring numbers for the first half of the year and seen its long-time CEO resign. But make no mistake: the Swiss giant is carefully guarding its position as one of the world’s…

Egypt The CEO of Egypt’s Universal Health Insurance Authority (UHIA) Hossam Sadek outlines the country’s strategy to provide healthcare coverage for the entire population by 2030, explains how the system will be financed, the first results from pilot programs across a few governorates, and the main challenges ahead, including a change…

Mexico Mexico’s pharma market, the second largest in Latin America and among the top 15 globally, is set to top USD 13 billion in sales by 2028. Despite the encouraging numbers, some industry insiders are bemoaning the current government’s healthcare missteps along with the country’s low public spending and regulatory hurdles.…

Global COVID-19 vaccines and treatments continue to make headline news and bring in huge revenues for sponsor companies, but Pharma Exec’s 2022 Top 50 Companies ranking suggests that many non-COVID products are once more driving big gains. Against the backdrop of an increasingly fraught geopolitical climate and patent landscape, the next…

GCC Talent and manpower are crucial elements in healthcare transformation, from trained clinicians to nurses, technical experts, and managers, but the GCC’s particularities create unique challenges in this regard. A full 50 percent of the region’s inhabitants are expatriates, a number that rises to 81 percent and 92 percent in Abu…

Americas Boehringer Ingelheim’s managing director for South America, Dirk van Niekerk, provides an overview of the healthcare climate in South America, the challenges tied to political and economic instability, future opportunities in specialty care, and the company’s strategy to continue a decades-long legacy. With many new governments in the region, we…

Italy Tiziana Mele, managing director of Lundbeck Italia, explains the impact of COVID on mental health care from the perspective of a company dedicated to brain health, outlines the Italian operation that includes both  commercial and production capacities and shares Lundbeck’s support of independent clinical trials in the country. At Lundbeck,…

Europe Pierre Meulien, Executive Director- Innovative Health Initiative, presents the public-private joint undertaking that boasts a total budget of EUR 2.4 billion and aims to build on the work of the Innovative Medicines Initiative to boost collaboration between the European pharmaceutical and related industries and the European Commission.   The Innovative…

Global Merck has agreed to front USD 150 million for Orna Therapeutics’ new investigational class of engineered circular RNA (oRNA) therapies in a collaboration agreement that will also provide the biotech series B financing. This broad strategic collaboration brings together Merck’s significant expertise … with Orna’s compelling circular RNA technology to…

Middle East & Africa Diginova Health Solutions is a platform that incubates and invests in digital health startups and collaborates with governments and regulators to bring digital solutions to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Healthcare management veteran, founding partner & CEO, Sarper Tanli, discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by digitilisation…