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Thailand Thailand is not traditionally known to be a manufacturing center due to its ever-changing policies, but OLIC (Thailand) Limited has risen as the nation’s number one contract manufacturing organization (CMO). OLIC’s managing director, Toyoyuki Kamide, talks about the company’s new manufacturing facility, its merger with Fuji Pharma, and its status…

Thailand The Government Pharmaceutical Organization’s Managing Director, Dr. Nopporn Cheanklin, tells PharmaBoardroom about its plans to launch 20 new products, its seaarch for medicines whose patents expire in the next few years, and the prospects for exports to Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. What ambitions for growth does the organization have both in Thailand…

Chiesi Chiesi is preparing to market two first in class products: the first approved stem cell treatment in Europe, and the first approved gene-therapy, developed in the Netherlands by partner UniQure. General Manager Nether Maurits Huigen discusses the challenges his affiliate is facing to bringing these pioneering products to market, along…

pharmaceuticals Dr Martin Favle, Chairman of Bogin – the Dutch Generic Medicine Industry Association, representing the interests of the generic medicines industry in the Netherlands – shares his fears about slow growth in the Dutch generics market and the state of the biosimilars market. You were quoted in the media last year saying ‘2014 was a…

marketing Ivelisse Casillas, founder of PharMaCon, Inc. talks about the challenges of marketing and advertising pharmaceuticals products in Puerto Rico. She founded the company in 2000 to provide advertising, legal and medical expertise to the sector. What are the main advertising challenges that your clients face with which you can help them? The biggest…

AstraZeneca   AstraZeneca’s Country President for Turkey discusses their efforts to build scientific leadership in Turkey in line with their global strategy and her hopes for the market access and public-private partnership environment in the coming years. The main value of AstraZeneca is putting the patient first and this is the…

Turkey PharmaBoardroom talked to Sr. Managing Director of Medtronic Turkey, Ayhan Ozturk about improving patient outcomes, how the company introduced a whole new standard on integrated healthcare, and their recent USD $25 million investment in a training facility.  Medtronic recently invested USD $25 million in a state-of-the-art training facility/Center of Innovation, which opened…

Romania Raed Arafat,  Secretary of State at the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs highlights the key trends in Romanian healthcare over recent years, his own role in reforming the country’s healthcare system, and the outlook for the future.   We still have lot of work to do and we need stability…

universal healthcare Berlin Pharmaceutical Industry’s CEO, Amal Naj, explains how he has grown the company, its next regional and medical targets, and his vision for its future. What has led to Berlin Pharmaceutical’s success over the last five years?    In 2010, the market was going through a major transition due to the progressive…

government PharmaBoardroom met the Secretary General of the Thai FDA and the Senior Expert on Pharmaceutical Standards at the FDA. They explained the FDA’s role in Thailand’s pharma market, what the organization is doing for Thai copyright rights, how it is promoting international investment and integration within the ASEAN Economic Community. Please introduce…

manufacturing The chancellor of the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico discusses the medical R&D projects the university is currently involved in, the fields in which the island has the most potential, and how the institution is tailoring its academic offer to suit the local needs of the…

Puerto Rico Medical device manufacturer CMO C-Axis founded its facility in Puerto Rico in 2003. Jared Haley, the affiliate’s general manager, discusses new technologies and the company’s positioning within Puerto Rico’s growing medtech sector as a key service provider to the industry. Looking at C-Axis’s products and services here, what are the…