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China Pharmaceutical Industry Association (CPIA) You have a very long history in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry, first in the joint venture company Xian-Janssen and then in the China National Pharmaceutical Group. Could you highlight the main evolutions of the Chinese pharmaceutical industry through these fast-changing times? It is indeed true that we have undergone tremendous…

Merck Serono China As growth has stalled in Europe, the US and Japan, many multinational companies are looking at China as part of a hedging strategy and a key growth driver of the future. You must be feeling a lot of pressure from company headquarters as well as the natural pressures of working…

Novartis Chile Novartis’ pharmaceutical activities include innovators, generics and biopharmaceuticals. How has your portfolio developed in Chile? What therapeutic areas is Novartis favoring in the Chilean context? Novartis is one of the Top 5 pharmaceutical companies at an international level. We have products in all the therapeutic areas inside the ethical pharmaceutical…

Alliance of Bio-Box Outsourcing China Could you please give a brief introduction to the ABO and its history? ABO was established in 2005. The CRO business emerged in 2000 in China, and provided services for medicine factories; however, these CRO companies were small as individuals. As a result, they were gathered together and ABO was…

PharmaLegacy Could you give us some personal background and tell us why you choose to come to the CRO side after a successful career at a multinational? A lot of people ask why I chose to make this transition after being at a pretty good position at Procter & Gamble, with…

Biogen Idec - China You have been here in China for about a year. What were your assumptions about China before you arrived and were things more or less what you thought they would be or were you surprised about the reality on the ground? We conducted extensive research and scouting before setting up…

Kampar Kampar began its operations in Chile in 2005. What have been the main milestones and achievements of the company in the last five years? Our main achievement since the creation of Kampar has been our strong market penetration. We have certified products coming from specific sources with norms and standards…

China Pharmaceutical Enterprises Association First, let me briefly introduce myself. I used to work in Fuxin, a small city in the industrially advanced province of Liaoning which is equivalent to a state in the US. I worked in a company’s pharmaceutical factory for twenty years holding various positions such as technology director, factory head,…

IMS Health Chile IMS was recently acquired by two investment funds, how has this affected the operations of the company and what changes did it bring in the Chilean context? So far, the acquisition has been beneficial for our Chilean operations. We expect bigger transformations to take place starting January 1st 2011, and…

Fountain Medical Development You have an MD and you’ve worked in industry, but then you decided to become and entrepreneur. What challenges did you face in transitioning to starting your own company and in growing your organization? Entrepreneurship is nothing new in China. Half the population of this country seems to want to…

Alliance of Bio-Box Outsourcing China Please introduce to our readers the general situation and driving force behind the creation of the Beijing Pharma and Biotech Center and its core mandate? Established in 1996, BPBC is an affiliated agency of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and serves as a professional service organization for the…

China Association of Traditional Chinese Medi You started the Chinese operations and have been working in the country for many years but recently moved up to running all operations in Asia Pacific. Are you still closely involved with what’s happening in China? I started the operations in China almost 16 years ago, and I started them…