More Pharma Mexico There are about 250 employees and you have regional presence in Latin America. In your view as CEO, can you tell our readers about the biggest growth drivers and challenges in the Mexican pharmaceutical market since then? At More Pharma we believe we are navigating at an ever changing environment.…
Shire Pharmaceuticals Please can you give us a rundown of Shires activities in Mexico in the last four years, and the key achievements and milestones along the way? Shire started operations in Mexico in 2008, a similar story to Brazil. There are very few people working here in Shire Mexico but we…
Octapharma Mexico Please can you give our readers a brief rundown of the major milestones and challenges that you have faced at Octapharma since becoming Managing Director? When Octapharma first came to Mexico in 1994, it was through a distribution agreement with a local company. Six years later in the year 2000…
SinoBioway Group Could you provide us with an introduction to the company and an overview of operations from the company’s founding through to your position today as a leading biotech company in China? The company’s development can be divided into three phases. The first stage ranges from the company’s establishment up till…
Hutchison Medipharma You began your career at Pfizer, working your way up the organizational ladder, when suddenly you decided to come to China back in 2001, well before China was on the map for R&D. What drove you to make this choice, to take the risk and come to China? It wasn’t…
Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP - Hong Kong This interview was conducted with Christopher Stephens, managing partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s Asia offices with supporting responses from Xiang Wang, lead partner of the firm’s IP pracitce as well as Patricia Thayer, life sciences specialist in IP litigation and counseling. Could you provide a brief introduction to Orrick,…
PharmaLegacy Could you give us some personal background and tell us why you choose to come to the CRO side after a successful career at a multinational? A lot of people ask why I chose to make this transition after being at a pretty good position at Procter & Gamble, with…
Kampar Kampar began its operations in Chile in 2005. What have been the main milestones and achievements of the company in the last five years? Our main achievement since the creation of Kampar has been our strong market penetration. We have certified products coming from specific sources with norms and standards…
Biotech Pharmaceutical Co Ltd Could you please introduce the history and main characteristics of Biotech Pharmaceutical? Biotech Pharmaceutical was established in the year 2000, so we are a relatively young company for biopharmaceutical products by Chinese standards. However, we were the first company in China to discover, develop, manufacture and market monoclonal antibodies. Before…
The Balloch Group What initially attracted you to China and what kept you here over the years? I initially became interested in China during university where I studied the country and wrote a masters thesis on China. This was during the Cultural Revolution so it wasn’t easy to come to China in those…
Beaufour IPSEN China Your background before joining Beaufour Ipsen is quite unique among country managers of pharmaceutical companies: working many years in academia and focused very much on Asian studies. What brought you to the pharmaceutical industry? I have a very long personal history with China, starting back in my student days. I…
Luye Pharma What was the transition like from academia into entrepreneurship and what challenges did you face in beginning this company? I realized during this period in the late 1980s that there were no local Chinese companies doing what I wanted to do at the time so I saw there was an…
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