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Norway Norway has long held a strong international position in neuroscience and is home to Professors May-Britt and Edvard Moser, a married couple and the 2014 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Mosers, along with their former mentor John O’Keefe, won the award for their work on…

Norway Many countries have struggled to adapt to the shift to remote working and digital communication brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. However, these tools were already well-utilised in the vast but sparsely populated country of Norway and digital is increasingly being seen as a key component in…

Europe On 25 November 2020, the European Commission adopted a Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe with the stated aim of ensuring that “patients have access to innovative and affordable medicines” and “to support the competitiveness, innovative capacity and sustainability of the EU’s pharmaceutical industry”.   This Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe is seen…

Switzerland Chief Financial Officer Marina Lugova introduces pharmaceutical company Synbias Pharma’s evolving European footprint, how the company has been able to withstand the COVID-19 pandemic and continue providing its essential products to customers, and its plans for the future, including further investments in the firm’s German production facility and new strategic…

Switzerland As part of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) is responsible for public health in Switzerland; developing the country’s health policy and working to create an efficient and affordable healthcare system in the long term. PharmaBoardroom recently sat down with the FOPH’s newly…

China The latest from Chinese pharma, including domestic regulatory approval for Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine, how the country’s online healthcare industry is booming in the wake of the pandemic, and news that companies are slashing prices on new products by an average of 51 percent in order for them to be covered…

USA A Tale of Two Americas The US stands as the biopharma innovation champion of the world, a global leader on nearly all R&D indices related to investment and innovation. It also holds a tremendous amount of clout, representing half the world’s healthcare market, and the US healthcare industry itself is…

Europe Professor Nicolaus Kröger, president of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) introduces the multi-stakeholder GoCART Coalition and the impact that it stands to have on the cell and gene therapy field in Europe.   It was critical to build a coalition that is win-win for everyone Nicolaus,…

Europe Niklas Hedberg outlines the role of EUnetHTA as both a network and project built up of national HTAs in Europe, the potential for a continent-wide mandate on health technology assessment, the integration of RWE into decision making processes, and how EUnetHTA has adapted to cell and gene therapies.   In…

Global Although the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent rush to develop diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines dominated the global headlines in 2020, PharmaBoardroom’s network of industry insiders contributed pieces across a broad swathe of topics this year. See below for a selection of articles ranging from cross country pricing collaborations to AI…

USA AAM President Dan Leonard highlights the findings of the association’s most recent report and re-states the value proposition of generic and biosimilar drugs in the USA.   AAM’s 2020 access and savings report documenting the savings generated by generic prescription drugs once again trumpets the value proposition of generic and…

Europe On 25 November, the European Commission adopted a new strategy meant to, among others, allow Europe to cover its pharmaceutical needs, including in times of crisis, through robust supply chains. The strategy also contains a flagship actions to help curb the rise of antimicrobial resistance. Rex Clements, CEO of Centrient…