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Promega Netherlands Promega is a truly global company with a vast international presence. What would you say is the strategic importance that the Benelux affiliate has assumed within Promega’s global network? Promega Benelux is actually the first branch office that was established outside of the US, so the company’s experience in bringing…

The UK has got around half of the public biotech companies and 21% of all entrepreneurial bioscience companies in Europe. From your perspective, can you explain what the key success factors are that made the UK bioscience industry one of the most advanced in the world? First and foremost, the…

Proprietary Association of Great Britain (PAGB) Thank you for having us today! You have been chief executive of the Association since 1990 and obviously observed the evolution of the OTC market from close by. From your experience, can you please explain our readers how you have seen the OTC market evolving here in the UK? From…

  Despite a population of 95 million and a growing economy, the Philippine pharmaceutical industry has been largely overlooked in the past–but things are about to change. The industry has been quite radically reshaped in the last year, following the approval of the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act,…

Medichem (Malta) Medichem began production at its plant in Malta in 2006. Can you give us a brief overview of the facilities, and of the importance of the subsidiary to Corporación Medichem as a group? Medichem was set up as a state-of-the-art facility for the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in…

Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society (MPS) The society started at the beginning of the 20th century with the combination of the Penang Pharmaceutical Association and the Straits Pharmaceutical Association. Have there been significant shifts in the society’s objectives and what are its priorities today? For a long time, pharmacy has been a non subject. There was…

Ministry of Health (MOH) of Malaysia Would you begin by giving our readers a brief overview of the recent changes in the Ministry of Health’s focus? After Prime Minister Najib changed Malaysia’s economic policy from the ‘New Economic Policy’ to the ‘Economic Transformation Programme’ there has been a paradigm shift in the ministry’s focus. The government…

Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC) How would you describe MABIC today and the way that it has evolved since its creation in 2000? The Malaysian Biotech Information Centre or MABIC is an NGO and part of the ISAAA. MABIC’s central objective is to disseminate fact-based, science-based information about biotechnology to the public. The word biotechnology…

Actavis (Malta) Ltd Actavis’ Maltese operations began as far back as 1976 as a different company ( Pharmamed Ltd.). In 2001, this Malta facility was acquired by Actavis which has developed it into what is today the largest generic pharmaceutical manufacturing plant on the island. Can you give us a brief overview of…

Metallform (Malta) Ltd Can you give us a brief description of Metallform’s activity since the establishment of the Maltese subsidiary in 1992? The parent company Metallform GmbH & Cokg was supplying disposable medical equipment to hospitals in West Germany through its subsidiary ImproMediform. When the Berlin wall came down in 1989 and Germany…

PRIMA Can you give our readers an overview of the main characteristics of the Maltese Pharmaceutical market for innovators? Hilary Agius: In a nutshell, in Malta there are two distinct markets; the first is the private market, which is when a patient gets medication or a prescription from the doctor and…

Combino Pharm Combino Pharm began production at its plant in Malta in 2006. Can you give us a brief overview of the facilities, and of the importance of the subsidiary to Corporación Medichem as a group? The project behind Combino Pharm Malta started in 2005 with the first trials to be begun…