City Pharmacy Mohamed Kouta, General Manager of City Pharmacy, discusses the company’s key strengths while delving into the market’s major weaknesses and how they will affect the future of City Pharmacy. City Pharmacy has been around for quite a while now. What is one of its strong points? Dr. Adbulrahman Al Mahmeed,…
Abbvie Bassel Amer, Regional General Manager of Abbvie, discusses the company’s split in 2012, why it has been a good thing for both sides and everyone involved, including shareholders, and where he sees the Middle East market in the next five to ten years. On January 2012, Abbott split into two…
UAE Walid Kattouha, Head of the Middle East Cluster of Novartis, speaks about why local knowledge is key to the company’s success, what have been and continues to be the major challenges for the company, and what the future looks like. You are the leading pharmaceutical company in the Middle…
Collaboration Paolo Carli, Head of Middle East, KSA & Egypt for Merck Serono, speaks about the regions most pressing health issues—hypertension and diabetes— and how he thinks that collaboration of the industry with the government and educational institutes will help overcome this problem before it’s too late. What are some of…
UAE Jan Van der Goten, GCC Managing Director of Janssen UAE, talks about his experience at Janssen GCC as regional manager, how collaboration with other companies in the industry will bring about better results for the issue of diabetes, and why this may be harder to accomplish than expected. You…
Biotechnology Ashraf Allam, Regional Managing Director of Amgen, talks about the main challenges the company has faced, the benefit of building a company in the UAE, and the growth strategy of Amgen—past, present and future. Amgen is a relatively newcomer to the region having only established is operations in 2006. As…
Newbridge Pharmaceuticals Joe Henein, President & CEO of Newbridge Pharmaceuticals, talks about the evolution of the company since his joining, what makes Newbridge Pharmaceuticals a unique partner within the industry, and expounds on the many possible options for the future of the company. Newbridge Pharmaceuticals is a unique company within the Middle…
Medpharma Yanoof Al-Bidh, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Medpharma, speaks about the core successes that the family-owned business has experienced thus far and what the next phase will look like for Medpharma. Medpharma is a family-owned company with its origins in Oman. What made you choose the UAE as the…
UAE Samer Al Hallaq, Gulf President of AstraZeneca, speaks about the company’s strategy to align its portfolio with the increasing presence of lifestyle diseases like diabetes, and how innovation is the driving force behind continued growth for the future. Let’s begin by speaking a little bit about AstraZeneca’s global focus…
Adimmune Corporation The president of Adimmune Corporation discusses how the avian flu outbreak of 2006/2007 changed the course of the drug manufacturing industry in Taiwan, what that meant for Adimmune, and how he plans to get Adimmune and the Taiwanese biotech industry on the map. Over the past few decades, how has…
Life Sciences The funding of Canada’s biotech industry has changed drastically in recent years. Peter Van Der Velden of Lumira Capital discusses those changes and how his venture capital business is adapting to this evolving environment. Lumira has been involved with numerous acquisitions over the years. Could you highlight a couple of…
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