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biotech Portuguese pharmaceutical group Bluepharma consists of ten companies that represent different parts of the medicine value chain. The success of Bluepharma during Portugal’s crisis was due to a strong focus on overseas exports and diversification of risk. Paulo Barradas and Sérgio Simões explain how they created that success.   Bluepharma…

biotech Portuguese pharmaceutical group Bluepharma consists of ten companies that represent different parts of the medicine value chain. The success of Bluepharma during Portugal’s crisis was due to a strong focus on overseas exports and diversification of risk. Paulo Barradas and Sérgio Simões explain how they created that success.   Bluepharma…

R&D Almirall Portugal stopped all commercial activity in 2011 to focus only on the market access of new, innovative products being introduced through the organization’s active R&D pipeline. Country Manager Rui Santos explains this process and how he plans to tackle the tough Portuguese marketplace.   Almirall has been in Portugal…

market access José Aranda da Silva, General Manager of Formifarma Portugal, stresses the importance of market access, demonstrating added value for companies today, as well as the need for a revamp of Portugal’s outdated reimbursement system.   What was your inspiration for creating Formifarma? Having spent my career in various fields of…

Gubelkian Jose Pereira Leal, Group Leader Head of the Bioinformatics Unit at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, discusses the institute’s unique selling point, stating that, “researchers will continue to come and stay here based on the excellence of research” that the country, and institute in particular, are currently experiencing.   Since its…

scienfitic output João Lobo Antunes, Founder of Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Portugal gives his insights into Portugal’s strengths in science and technology, as well as his ambitions to grow IMM into one of the world’s leading institutes for genomics.   How would you rate Portugal’s scientific output nationwide? The scientific development…

logistics Agustín Oleaga, Managing Director of DHL Supply Chain Portugal discusses the challenges of supply chain management as it relates to the life sciences industry in Portugal, and how the country’s geo-strategic positioning is an advantage in the ever-competitive pharma ceutical industry.    You were appointed head of DHL Portugal three…

Showing figures for September 2013, this table lists the top 20 pharma companies in the Portuguese market, based on sales.

Between Portugal’s two main distribution channels of hospitals and pharmacies, hospitals have suffered in particular. As the pharmaceutical industry’s largest customer, it has been critical for government to work with pharmaceutical companies to find solutions. Robin Turner, general manager of Roche Portugal, likens the relationship of the industry with the…

  The inclusion of healthcare as a priority on the presidential agenda has led to knock-on consequences that are being felt across the healthcare value chain in the Philippines. Universal healthcare coverage (UHC) has been cemented, which has led to a shift from branded medicines to generics, leading many players…

Generics Kenneth Y Hartigan-Go, Acting Director General of the Food and Drug Administration Philippines (FDA) discusses the current state of regulations processes, strategies that the FDA are applying to the major challenges being presented, and further elaborates on the affect that the universal healthcare would have on the Filipino market.  One…

R&D Luis Almeida, CEO of Luzitin Portugal, talks about the Innovation of the Decade award Luzitin received for its patented technology, what exactly is so unique and innovative about this technology, and how it could spark a paradigm shift in the way cancer is treated. Luzitin won the Innovation of the…