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Austria Dr. Andreas Windischbauer, president of the Austrian Association of Full-Line Pharmaceutical Wholesalers (PHAGO) discusses the organization’s role within the Austrian pharma industry, its current challenges, price pressures, competition, and future prospects. Can you give us a brief overview of PHAGO? “We live in a changing world with a lot of…

USA In 2016, rumours of a weakening FDA followed a disappointing 16 new drugs approved for the full year. However, since the beginning of 2017 the FDA has approved 26 drugs; double the amount of the mid-year average since 2007. “The eight oncology treatments approved by the FDA this year represent…

Japan Kenichi Tamiya, director for Biomedical Policy at the Kobe City Government and managing director of the Kobe Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation (FBRI), discusses the central Japanese city of Kobe’s significant potential as a cutting-edge R&D hub for both the national and global life science industries. “Alongside promoting translational…

Ukraine Filya Zhebrovska, chairman of the supervisory board of Farmak and the company’s general director between 1995 and 2017, provides insights into the strategy she has followed to establish Farmak as Ukraine’s largest domestic company and the market leader in the country since 2010. She also documents the impact of the…

Ukraine Taras Velgosh, Adamed’s country manager in Ukraine, provides insights into the great results accomplished by the Ukrainian affiliate of this leading Polish pharmaceutical company despite the deep crisis that has recently affected the Ukrainian market. He also documents the innovative, service-oriented added value that he strives to bring into the…

Colombia Rafael Salamanca, the founder of Depósito de Drogas Boyacá, shares his insights on the recent developments of the company in the challenging Colombian logistics environment, while revealing the essence of the company’s success relying on the combination of key factors: product, amount, customer, place and time. You’ve been in the…

Colombia Claudio Ferrari, General Manager of Scandinavia Pharma, proudly presents some of the latest product launches of the company and shares insights into the strategic role Scandinavia Pharma plays for Mega Pharma, as an ambitious player aiming to figure amongst the top five companies in the Colombian trade market by 2021.…

Colombia Harold Karam, General Manager of Farma de Colombia, speaks about the implementation of business strategies for the company moving forward, including the growing footprint in the institutional market, while focusing both on own product development and new licensing agreements. Mr. Karam, you have been appointed general manager about four years…

Colombia Yolanda Alagón, general manager of Janssen Colombia, discusses the company’s footprint in Colombia and Latin America and her strategy for the affiliate moving forward. You have been appointed General Manager three years ago, becoming one of the first women to lead a pharma company in Latin America. You mentioned your…

Ukraine Liana Maksyoutova, country manager of Polpharma Ukraine, provides insights into the impressive transformation of the Ukrainian affiliate that she has fostered since inheriting its reins in 2012 and how she has been able to leverage her previous experiences in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector to turn around the affiliate.…

USA Rolando Pablos, Secretary of State of Texas, discusses Texas’s unique business-friendly environment, the significance of the life sciences sector to the state’s economy (which would be the tenth largest in the world were Texas a country), innovation, and internationalization.   Across the board we are industry agnostic, meaning that whatever…

Ukraine Anatoliy Reder, founder and general director of InterChem, provides insights into the heightened international ambitions of this leading, science-based Ukrainian pharmaceutical company, which plans to leverage its unique R&D and manufacturing capacities to bring to the EU and other international markets their in-house developed, original products, which proudly stand as…