Merck Serono China As growth has stalled in Europe, the US and Japan, many multinational companies are looking at China as part of a hedging strategy and a key growth driver of the future. You must be feeling a lot of pressure from company headquarters as well as the natural pressures of working…
Alliance of Bio-Box Outsourcing China Could you please give a brief introduction to the ABO and its history? ABO was established in 2005. The CRO business emerged in 2000 in China, and provided services for medicine factories; however, these CRO companies were small as individuals. As a result, they were gathered together and ABO was…
China Pharmaceutical Enterprises Association First, let me briefly introduce myself. I used to work in Fuxin, a small city in the industrially advanced province of Liaoning which is equivalent to a state in the US. I worked in a company’s pharmaceutical factory for twenty years holding various positions such as technology director, factory head,…
COFEPRIS It’s been one year since you were appointed as Federal Commissioner of COFEPRIS in March 2011. What have been the biggest challenges you’ve faced within this time? The biggest challenge was to familiarize myself with the new agency, which has very wide powers as it regulates many industries. COFEPRIS regulates…
MSD Brasil When we were in Australia, we met with the “star scientist” Ian Frazier, who was Australian of the Year in 2009 for his co-discovery of Merck’s Gardasil. Or Singulair, which is the trade name of Montelukast, with the Mont signifying “Montreal” where the product was developed. What will it take…
A.G. (CIF) What was the vision behind the creation of the Camara de la Industria Farmaceutica de Chile (CIF) and what have been the main milestones and achievements? CIF was created in 1953 and was originally composed of all the pharmaceutical laboratories operating in the country. Today CIF is a chamber that…
Brazil In an exclusive interview, Otto Philipp Braun, part of medtech giant B. Braun’s family dynasty, discusses his achievements as MD in Brazil, the company’s operations in the country and globally, as well as its CSR programs. B. Braun has been established in Brazil for more than 40 years, with its headquarters…
SinoGenoMax SinoGenoMax was founded in 1998 with the purpose of participating in the Human Genome Project. Could you give us an overview of the company’s activities since then and the transformation of the company over the past 11 years? SinoGenoMax was initially incorporated in 1998 as a joint investment between the…
Pharma Investi Chile As the President of ASILFA what would you say are the main drivers and challenges for the Chilean pharmaceutical industry today? Chile today is moving to implement a new healthcare system. The government is trying to address the inefficiencies of the public system today and to modernize it so that…
R&D-based Pharmaceutical Association Committe You have a long experience in the Chinese pharmaceutical market, and in particular you saw it evolve tremendously over the last 10 years. From a management perspective, would you say that it is easier or harder to tackle today or a decade ago? In my view, the Chinese market is…
Asociacion Industrial de Laboratorios Farmace You have previous experience working for innovative pharmaceutical companies such as Procter and Gamble, and today you are the Executive Director for ASILFA. What was your rationale behind making this change? My time at P&G was an excellent experience from which I learned a lot and developed a great network…
Merck Sharp & Dohme Chile What have been MSD’s major milestones and achievements since your establishment in Chile in 1995? We have recently gone through a global merger with Schering Plough, which occurred exactly a year ago. With this in mind, the first milestone that I can mention is the integration of these two relatively…
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