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Taiwan Taiwan’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Jong-Chin Shen, outlines the initiatives implemented by the Ministry to help Taiwan’s industries reinforce their competitive advantage. Minister Shen also goes on to explain the Ministry’s specific role within the Biomedical Industry Innovation Promotion Program under the administration’s 5+2 Innovative Industries Policy.   Taiwan’s investment…

Spain Jaime Vives, managing director of Roche Diagnostics in Spain, discusses the digital solutions Roche Diagnostics is trying to roll out in Spain, the challenges involved, and the potential implications of digitalising healthcare   The first step into digitalization is to convince our customers to standardise their systems and the way…

Taiwan Professor Ming-Shiang Wu, director of the Taiwan Clinical Trial Consortium, elaborates on the activities of the organization and its role to promote Taiwan’s clinical trial infrastructure and attract more international trials to the country. He also goes on to explain the key strengths of Taiwan within the Asia Pacific region.…

Taiwan Chuan Lin, chairman of TTY Biopharm, one of Taiwan’s leading domestic biomedical players, highlights his ambition to lead the local success story onto the global stage. Chuan goes on to share the company’s transition strategy to leverage their innovative development platforms and manufacturing capabilities to be a partner of choice…

Taiwan Grace Yeh, president and founder of PharmaEngine, gives an update on the company’s recent growth and development of their second nanomedicine cancer treatment. Yeh goes on to explain the unique positioning of nanomedicine within oncology and Taiwan’s role as an active participant in the global fight against cancer.   PharmaEngine…

Spain Francisco Coll, CEO of Quinton, explains the background behind the company’s seawater therapies and how they are expanding this originally French brand internationally. Coll also sheds light on his strategy to leverage social media in order to market and distribute Quinton’s leading products.   The seawater must be collected from…

Taiwan Researchers from Taiwan and the USA may have found a vaccine for the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – a deadly emerging disease with a mortality rate of over 34 percent.   The vaccine mimics the characteristics of the virus Hu Che-Ming, Academica Sinica Focus Taiwan reports that scientists…

Opinion Pierre Meulien of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) discusses the potential impact that new technological innovations will have on the drug development process.   A more technologically integrated approach is required that looks more holistically at the patient as an individual Whether we call it “Personalised”, “Precision”, “Stratified”, or “Tailored”, the age…

Taiwan As part of its ‘Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan’, Taiwan has designated a special focus to each of its regions. The Taiwanese government is aiming to develop a new economic model and make Taiwan, “the stage for innovation talent in Asia and example of innovation and entrepreneurship, with the goal…

Spain Alba Vergés, Minister of Health of Catalonia, highlights her key priorities within the thriving region of Catalonia as well as the factors that have created a unique ecosystem. Furthermore, she highlights the department’s relationship with the pharmaceutical industry and the need to think about sustainability in today’s healthcare environment.  …

Spain Lab Seid is a family owned pharmaceutical company based in Barcelona, specialising in branded out of patent products in the field of women’s health. Seid’s general manager, Joaquín Vilá, discusses the turnaround of the company since taking over in 2011, and the strategy behind its consolidation around gynaecology. Vila also…

AI Axel Schumacher highlights the vital importance of AI and blockchain for the future success of pharmaceutical companies, the significant knowledge gap that currently exists within Big Pharma, and why, therefore, now is the time for these firms to invest in AI and blockchain start-ups.   While almost everyone is talking…