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Switzerland After 15 years as director at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) (2004-2019) and even longer as the group leader at her own research lab, Professor Susan M. Gasser was appointed director of the Foundation of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer (ISREC), in a way closing the…

Switzerland Dipharma SA is a Swiss specialty pharmaceutical company, developing improved generics medicines for rare metabolic diseases. Founder & CEO Marc-Olivier Geinoz discusses why the company has chosen to compete in the largely unexplored rare diseases generics space, its direct presence in the German market, and the opportunities inherent in metabolic…

Switzerland Lorenzo Ambrosini of the Agire Foundation introduces the major new innovation projects underway in the Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino; the canton’s strong existing footprint in bioinformatics, AI, and computer modelling; and how it is looking to leverage its connections to the rest of Switzerland and to Italy.   A…

Switzerland Switzerland is a crucial country for MSD’s global network, employing over 1000 people in local, regional, and global functions across four sites in Lucerne and a newly opened site in Zurich specialising in R&D, data management, and commercialisation. With 25 ongoing clinical trials per year, Switzerland is an important country…

Switzerland Thomas A. Tóth von Kiskér, longstanding CEO of Tillotts Pharma AG, a Switzerland-based specialty pharma player focused on the digestive system, shares his M&A principles and insights, their exciting recent acquisition of DIFICLIR™ from Astellas, and the company’s recognition as a Great Place to Work® (GPTW) in Switzerland.   For…

Global Dr Thomas D. Madden, CEO and founder of Acuitas Therapeutics, shares the story behind their involvement in Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, the numerous applications of the company’s proprietary lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery technology, as well as the growth strategy of the Canadian company. pharmaboardroom · The bright future of…

Norway Equality has long been a deeply held ideal in Norway, where the concept of allemannsretten – the legal right to roam – permeates all aspects of society. Notably, surplus wealth produced by Norway’s sizeable petroleum industry is deposited into the Government Pension Fund Global, today the world’s largest sovereign wealth…

Switzerland Although Switzerland is ahead of many of its competitors in Europe on levels of healthcare innovation, one potential stumbling block is access to and use of data. The country’s decentralised healthcare system means that many data sets are siloed and heterogeneous within regions, creating issues in terms of conducting research…

Switzerland Regarded as one of the world’s leading regulatory bodies, Swissmedic stands alongside its equivalents in Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia in terms of the evaluation and approval of new drugs. Although its approval times are increasing, raising doubts about Swissmedic’s continued place at the top table of global regulators, initiatives…

Switzerland Belgian champion UCB’s global manufacturing head, Jacques Marbehant, talks candidly about managing a broad global manufacturing and supply chain through the COVID-19 pandemic, the talent challenges inherent in scaling up manufacturing capacity and scope, and why greater levels of both internal and external collaboration are crucial for the pharma industry…

Switzerland Clinerion, a leader in real-world data solutions, is helping bring medical data informatics to the life sciences industry. CEO Barış Erdoğan explains how the company is creating and applying technology to significantly reduce the drug development timeline. Clinerion uses Big Data analytics technologies to help hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and research…

Vaccines The story of how British doctor Edward Jenner serendipitously discovered a way to inoculate people against smallpox in 1976 by injecting them with cowpox pus is well-known. Over the past two centuries, vaccine development platforms have (thankfully) advanced leaps and bounds, delivering a wealth of options to tackle global health…