Austria Martin Tiani, CEO of Tiani Spirit, the global leader in Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), discusses the importance of interoperability within electronic health information exchange (HIE) and the challenges e-health faces, especially for the company as they adapt to differing regulations in various nations. Furthermore, he highlights the grapevine initiative (grapevineworld.com) for…
Tunisia The long-awaited conference marking the launch of the company cluster of Sidi Thabet (a city in the governorate of Ariana, 20 minutes from Tunis airport) took place on September 28th 2017 at the Tunis export centre (CEPEX) and revolved around the theme: “Sidi Thabet BioTechpole: serving innovation in the pharmaceutical…
ARM Annie Hubert, Senior Director, EU Section & Public Policy for the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) describes some of the issues that companies in the advanced therapies field are facing in terms of market access and stakeholder education in Europe, as well as some of the key breakthroughs that European…
Canada Niven Al-Khoury, President of Sanofi Canada, highlights the strong presence that Sanofi has established in the country over the past 100 years, some of the notable historical achievements from collaboration between Sanofi and Canadian science, as well as the value that Sanofi is committed to bringing to the Canadian healthcare…
Bulgaria Aurélien Breton, general manager at Servier Bulgaria, explains how the affiliate has performed under his tenure and highlights the importance of combining the right portfolio with a top-notch team to successfully navigate the business environment in Bulgaria. This is your second country management position after Slovenia, and you arrived in…
Tunisia Hatem Hachicha is Pfizer’s former manager for Tunisia, Libya and French-speaking African countries. He believes Tunisia’s pharmaceutical industry development will be achieved through internationalization and a shift towards biosimilars drugs. Co-founder of SEPHIRE and an active member of the Tunisian healthcare community, he stresses that one of the challenges in…
Canada Alok Kanti, president and CEO of Bayer Canada, draws upon his 27 years of international experience with Bayer to discuss the strategic significance of the Canadian affiliate to Bayer’s global operations, the challenges and opportunities he sees for industry-government collaboration, and the need for the country to promote a more…
Switzerland Philippe Held, founder of the innovative Swiss medtech Dermosafe, discusses the origins behind the company’s game-changing digitalized solutions for detecting skin cancer at an early stage, how the rollout of the technology is progressing, and the importance of patient and physician education. You founded DermoSafe around five years ago with…
Canada Michael Tremblay, president and CEO of Astellas Pharma Canada, Inc., draws upon his four decades of experience within the Canadian pharmaceutical industry to discuss his thoughts on the need for Canada to move away from a ‘silo-ed’ approach to healthcare spending, the value that Astellas has been bringing to patients…
Tunisia Khalil Laabidi, general manager of the Tunisian Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA) since 2014, discusses his organization’s responsibility for attracting foreign investment in line with the government’s objective of economic transformation, increasing technology transfer and making Tunisia a capital-intensive economy. What is the role of FIPA and how has it…
Canada Douglas Clark, Executive Director of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), Canada’s federal price regulator for patented medicines, highlights the PMPRB’s mandate to protect consumers against excessive prices for patented drugs, the rationale behind the recent proposed changes to their guidelines, and the role PMPRB can play within Canada’s…
Brazil Fabio Bussinger, partner-director of the Pharmaceutical Institute of Operational Governance (IFGO) in Brazil, documents the market needs that prompted him to set up Benchmarking Operational Competitiveness (BCO) Farma, a long-awaited benchmarking panel focused on operational excellence that has already delivered great outcomes to its members. You were operations vice president…
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