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Americas The latest news from pharma and healthcare in Latin America, including funding and logistics challenges in national COVID-19 vaccination programs, a new variant of the virus in Colombia, and the impasse between Pfizer and the Peruvian government.   First Covid-19 Vaccines Are Given in Latin America, But Region Faces Challenges…

China While many parts of the world ground to a halt as they tried to deal with the global pandemic, China had more or less brought the situation under control by June, and the healthcare deals engine just kept on churning. MSQ Ventures recently published its 2020 China Biopharma Global Transactions…

Global Following the recent news of Remegen’s massive USD 515 million IPO in November 2020, we bring you profiles of the seven biggest biotech companies to IPO in 2020. Notably, six of the seven companies are from China, pointing to the massive growth of the Chinese biotech market.   Remegen RemeGen,…

Saudi Arabia Following on from our list of the overall top 10 companies in the Saudi Arabian pharma market, here PharmaBoardroom highlights some of the top domestic companies in the USD 8.2 billion Saudi pharma market, many of which are now well-established and carving out international footprints.   Tabuk Pharmaceuticals Founded in…

USA A Tale of Two Americas The US stands as the biopharma innovation champion of the world, a global leader on nearly all R&D indices related to investment and innovation. It also holds a tremendous amount of clout, representing half the world’s healthcare market, and the US healthcare industry itself is…

Global Dr Thomas D. Madden, CEO and founder of Acuitas Therapeutics, shares the story behind their involvement in Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, the numerous applications of the company’s proprietary lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery technology, as well as the growth strategy of the Canadian company.   We quickly recognized that the…

Global 2020 was a challenging year globally, but one in which the importance of the healthcare and life sciences sector was underlined like never before. Despite lockdowns and travel restrictions, PharmaBoardroom still managed to talk to key industry stakeholders from across the world helping shape the future of global health. Featured…

Taiwan Charles Chen of Taiwanese firm Medigen Vaccines Biologics Corp (MVC) shares his career journey, the company’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy, and what MVC’s competitive advantages are. At MVC we have chosen a tried and tested technology platform as novel vaccine technologies face novel challenges Charles, could you start by introducing Medigen…

USA In a recent article for PharmaBoardroom, Objective Capital’s David Crean took a look at the state of US innovation today and its long term sustainability. See below for data on the share of US executives who see innovation as a top priority post-COVID, Global Public Equity Issuance for the Biopharmaceutical…

USA AAM President Dan Leonard highlights the findings of the association’s most recent report and re-states the value proposition of generic and biosimilar drugs in the USA.   AAM’s 2020 access and savings report documenting the savings generated by generic prescription drugs once again trumpets the value proposition of generic and…

China The latest from Chinese pharma, including a drop in share prices for Chinese vaccine firms in the wake of successful COVID-19 trial results from western rivals, a new Pfizer-LianBio agreement, and Thermo Fisher’s new pharma services facility.   China pharma shares fall as western rivals lead in vaccine trials https://www.ft.com/content/c4c8453e-39f6-4aac-83a3-7d16a3f4fa4b…

Global During the FT Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference earlier this month, three industry leaders spoke about innovative reimbursement models like ‘pay-for-performance’ agreements and the implementation challenges of such initiatives. The session was moderated by FT reporter Donato Mancini and saw the participation of Novartis Oncology president Dr Susanne Schaffert; bluebird…