Tagged with APAC

Asia-Pacific Writing in the July issue of DIA’s Global Forum magazine Serene Ong and Gaurang Majmudar of clinical trial logistics specialists Marken outline why the shift to decentralised clinical trials brought about by COVID-19 is likely to stay in place post-pandemic.   The face of clinical trials has been changing rapidly,…

Singapore Industry veteran Marine Queniart-Stojanovic outlines the significance of the Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore country grouping to Sanofi’s APAC operations; how the company’s global rationalisation and prioritisation push has been reflected at the country level; and why inter-stakeholder collaboration will be crucial to developing patient-centric solutions in a post-pandemic world.   I always come…

Singapore Beh Kian Teik of Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF) outlines the importance of the life sciences within the country’s innovation strategy and the role it has to play at a regional level.   Healthcare is a key area within our plan moving forward, and this comes as no surprise considering…

Singapore EY’s Abhay Bangi highlights the key trends across the ASEAN life sciences space, how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated them, and charts Singapore’s course towards becoming a world-class biotech investment destination.   Value-Based healthcare in this part of the world will be implemented in different ways. It will come less…

Singapore Dr Varun Sethi outlines some of the most important trends in ASEAN healthcare today and how DKSH, as a historic business services provider, is adapting its offering to meet them.   Singapore has always been considered the bellwether of driving innovation in the region, which remains the case. In terms…

Singapore Kenneth Tan has been President for Asia Pacific & Japan at cancer-focused medical device player Varian since February 2019. In a recent conversation with PharmaBoardroom, Tan shared how an early passion for healthcare has blossomed into an impressive global career in pharmaceuticals and MedTech, why a multidisciplinary, collaborative and patient-centric…

Asia-Pacific Writing in the May edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Toshiyoshi Tominaga of the Asia-Pacific Self-Medication Industry (APSMI) looks at the landscape for OTC medicines in the Asia-Pacific region today. Tominaga highlights how, against the backdrop of a drop in formal medical interventions due to COVID-19 infection fears, countries are more than…

Asia-Pacific Generics penetration in the Asia-Pacific region by country for 2018. A full 90.3 percent of all medicines dispensed in India were generics compared to 78.3 percent in China and 76.9 percent in Indonesia. At the other end of the scale, Japan and Taiwan had a generics penetration of just 28.9…

Singapore Professor Ng Huck Hui of A*Star’s Biomedical Research Council outlines the evolution of Singapore’s science and technology research and innovation ecosystem over the past 20 years and why the country is now focusing on translational science and building up enterprise.   During the past 20 years, we have built clusters…

Australia In an exclusive new podcast, DIA Global Forum Australia/New Zealand Regional Editor Richard Day (University of New South Wales, Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital) and John Skeritt, Head of Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), discuss regulatory strategies and other initiatives designed to help nurture clinical research and product development in Australia post-pandemic.   With…

Singapore Clarence Ngui describes how global orthopaedic product giant Zimmer Biomet has pivoted in APAC in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; how medical education needs differ across the vast APAC region; and the challenges that have kept him at Zimmer for over 24 years.   Asia Pacific as a region represents…

Asia-Pacific The Top 10 pharma markets in the vast Asia-Pacific region, ranked by market size in USD millions for 2018. China is way out in front with a market size of US 85,778 million, followed by Japan with USD 77,458 million and India at 16,843 million. Made with Visme Infographic Maker