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Octapharma Mexico Please can you give our readers a brief rundown of the major milestones and challenges that you have faced at Octapharma since becoming Managing Director? When Octapharma first came to Mexico in 1994, it was through a distribution agreement with a local company. Six years later in the year 2000…

SinoBioway Group Could you provide us with an introduction to the company and an overview of operations from the company’s founding through to your position today as a leading biotech company in China? The company’s development can be divided into three phases. The first stage ranges from the company’s establishment up till…

Latam Clinical Trials While LatAm originally emerged from the SIPLAS organization, how was it evolved since then to be where it is today? LatAm was born in 2000 as a business unit of SIPLAS labs and was known at the time as SIPLAS Research Organization. We decided to change our name to LatAm…

Hutchison Medipharma You began your career at Pfizer, working your way up the organizational ladder, when suddenly you decided to come to China back in 2001, well before China was on the map for R&D. What drove you to make this choice, to take the risk and come to China? It wasn’t…

Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP - Hong Kong This interview was conducted with Christopher Stephens, managing partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s Asia offices with supporting responses from Xiang Wang, lead partner of the firm’s IP pracitce as well as Patricia Thayer, life sciences specialist in IP litigation and counseling. Could you provide a brief introduction to Orrick,…

BioDuro You’ve run a number of life sciences companies now, but before that you started Telephia, an information services provider to the wireless industry. How did you make the jump to the healthcare industry? I worked in life sciences prior to Telephia, including Genta and another firm that later merged into…

The Balloch Group What initially attracted you to China and what kept you here over the years? I initially became interested in China during university where I studied the country and wrote a masters thesis on China. This was during the Cultural Revolution so it wasn’t easy to come to China in those…

Beaufour IPSEN China Your background before joining Beaufour Ipsen is quite unique among country managers of pharmaceutical companies: working many years in academia and focused very much on Asian studies. What brought you to the pharmaceutical industry? I have a very long personal history with China, starting back in my student days. I…

Maver Maver has an impressive track record in developing and commercializing blockbuster products for the Chilean market, such as Tapsin and Disfruta, which today are the #1 brands in their categories. What would you say has been your recipe for success? I believe our success is based on our targeted marketing…

Boehringer Ingelheim Chile What have been Boehringer Ingelheim’s major milestones and achievements since your establishment in Chile? Chile, in the regional context, represents a very important market with a solid evolution in terms of sales. For our company, on a regional scale, the country has been growing above the average rate of 15.6%…

Luye Pharma What was the transition like from academia into entrepreneurship and what challenges did you face in beginning this company? I realized during this period in the late 1980s that there were no local Chinese companies doing what I wanted to do at the time so I saw there was an…

China MSD China’s Michel Vounastos gives his initial impressions of the opportunities and challenges inherent in the Chinese healthcare market, and highlights how MSD’s offerings are able to address specific gaps in the country. You just arrived in China in February. The country managers we’ve met have all been here for…