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Hungary MD Pál Szamosújvari, Judit Jávor, Pál Szamosújvari Jr—Founder, R&D Director, and Director of Pharma Patent respectively—share their insights on the activities of the company, the importance of R&D, the challenges of smaller companies, its marketing strategy of its niche products, and its internationalization strategy.   Can you introduce yourself and…

USA The AAM’s Chip Davis gives an account of his agenda for 2020, how the association is driving policy in a complex healthcare environment of multiple public and private actors and offers insight as to why there is great room for improvement in the uptake of biosimilar drugs.   The question,…

Artificial Intelligence Digital health deal values in biopharma jumped to USD 6.4 billion in 2019, largely thanks to software company Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.’s USD 5.9 billion acquisition of health tech company Medidata Solutions, according to analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence. “Traditional investors in the digital health startup space have generally…

Artificial Intelligence With so many wild predictions being bandied around about AI’s potential to radically transform healthcare for the better, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that materialization of that dream will be far from easy. Indeed, the task a hand can seem quite formidable. Most pharma companies’ existing…

Artificial Intelligence As data and information proliferate at an exponential pace, many industries have turned to artificial intelligence to make sense of this information and deliver meaningful insights that can enhance performance. This is certainly the case for the healthcare sector, where the technology augurs nothing less than a paradigm shift towards…

Artificial Intelligence On the supply side, AI appears to herald the prospect of de-risking the drug discovery process and doing away with many of the traditional time-consuming approaches at a juncture when drug development had been becoming financially unsustainable and clinical research organisations (CROs) had been systematically failing to improve operational efficiency.…

Artificial Intelligence The AI in Life Sciences Market was valued at USD 902.1 million in 2019 by Mordor Intelligence and is projected to expand at an impressive 20 percent compound annual growth rate in the period 2020 to 2024. Yet despite the massive hype and enthusiasm around artificial intelligence’s propensity to positively…

UAE As part of its endeavour to provide world-class healthcare, on December 10 2019, the Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) announced a national program to use large-scale genomic data with the aim of allowing doctors working in the Emirate to provide more personalized and preventive treatment.   The Genome Program…

Czech Republic Josef Kredba, country manager Czech Republic at G.L. Pharma, an Austrian pharmaceutical company, explains how the company has returned to growth in the challenging Czech generics market and shares his thoughts on market access and pricing conditions for both innovative and generic products.   On the one hand, authorities recognize…

Opinion The AAM’s Chip Davis looks back on 35 years of healthcare system savings from generic pharmaceuticals in the US, and the peril the generics industry faces from the Lower Health Care Costs Act.   A key provision of our generic pharmaceutical architecture is in jeopardy. The “180-day exclusivity” is the…

Hungary Established in Hungary in 1913, Egis is a traditional Central Eastern European pharmaceutical company with an international footprint across the globe. As one of the four largest historical pharma companies in Hungary, the generic manufacturer now stands as a fully owned subsidiary of the French Servier Group. However, even today…

UAE With a relatively high number of genetic disorders, the Arab population of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is increasingly becoming the subject of new studies. The database from the Center for Arab Genomics Studies indicates the presence of 241 genetic disorders among that demographic, a number they call “extremely high…