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Generics Fergal Murphy, Chairman of the Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in Ireland, discusses with pharamaboardroom.com the difficulties in such a small market and how the industry is adapting to the needs of Ireland by working closely with the government to find the right price point for products and increasing awareness of…

Country Report Our last report was in 2009-2010 when the “social emergency crisis” happened. What would you say have been the most important changes in the health system since that time? The main cause of the crisis was a drastic increase in the number of recobros (individuals asking to be reimbursed for…

Human Resources Teresa Bitetti has a long history with BMS, spanning 3 decades in which she rose up the ranks starting from Senior Director of Abilify Marketing before becoming Sales Vice President of CNS until she reached her current position of President and General Manager of BMS Canada. Today she shares with…

Juan Carlos Fierro As a means of introduction, could you describe your background and how you became involved with Nutripharma in the first place? Nutripharma is a 12-year-old family company created by my father, Luis Fierro. After working as a sales representative for various pharmaceutical companies for many years, he began his own…

government relations Mike Brogan, before taking up the mantle of President at IMS was VP of Business Integration at IMS for a year. Today, he talks about the difficulties he has come up against since becoming President, especially in government relations and investment. He also offers insights on the future of marketing…

IBM Global Business Services Could you outline the significance of Denmark to IBM’s global operations? Industry in Denmark works with government on a basis of trust rather than mistrust. That means that we have been able for quite some time now to raise and share a lot of data. Of course there is legislation…

EndoCeutics Dr. Fernand Labrie, long before becoming CEO of EndoCeutics, discovered and developed medical castration with GnRH agonists, a breakthrough treatment that quickly replaced surgical castration back in the early 1980s. Along with other discoveries, he founded EndoResearch in 1985 to further his research. After billions in revenue from treatments developed…

clinical trials You are the CEO of GCP CMIC ClinPlus in addition to R&G PharmaStudies, and before that you headed a number of companies as well. Could you introduce yourself and all the many moving parts you lead to our readers? To begin with, I was a physician for 10 years before…

Baltic You refer to AstraZeneca as the locomotive of bioscience in Sweden. Can you elaborate on what you mean by that, and the role that you see for AstraZeneca in pushing this development forward? AstraZeneca has a significant R&D presence in Sweden. We currently have more than 2,300 researchers at our…

Nordic Last year, Boston Scientific took important steps to stabilise and strengthen its core businesses. Could you develop on the development trajectory of Boston Scientific in the Nordic region so far? I have only been with the company for a year now, but what happened is that Boston Scientific have acquired…

Generics Eric Ng received his degree at National University of Singapore. In his career he has worked for such companies as AstraZeneca before moving to Sanofi-Aventis China until his rise in rank to President Director of Sanofi in Indonesia. Today he talks about the stiff competition in Indonesia in the generics…

Goodyear Minister for Science shares with us how the Canadian Government has taken a different approach to funding innovationand the benefits it has reaped in the pharma industry as a whole in the country. You became Minister of State for Science and Technology in 2008, a position that had previously not…