Belgium Joris Van Assche, managing director of the Belgian association for accessible medicines, Medaxes, highlights the need for a stronger policy to create a more positive environment for generic and biosimilar medicines. He also outlines the important role the off-patent sector plays in the long-term sustainability of Belgium’s universal healthcare system.…
Mexico Below is a selection of top recent news from Mexican pharma and healthcare, including the healthcare reforms president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is prioritising, latest news on the INSABI program, cancer research, and the lack of coronavirus expertise in Mexico. Zero tolerance for corruption: the Mexican pharma sector must…
UAE Growing incidence of lifestyle-related diseases, coupled with high drug prices, are driving up healthcare costs at astounding rates in the Middle East and North Africa, with experts urging preventative measures to reverse the trend. Healthcare costs in the Gulf region are expected to rise at a greater rate than…
Czech Republic Milan Černek, country manager of Mylan in the Czech Republic, provides expert insights into current trends in the Czech Republic’s generics and biosimilars markets, describes the affiliate’s strategy to continue growing and reinforces the company’s commitment to providing high-quality modern treatments. The Czech Republic is a perfect example of…
China Biosimilars are a relatively recent development in the pharmaceutical industry, meaning market penetration is still fairly low, even in many developed markets, much less emerging markets. Prior to 2019, not a single biosimilar had been approved in China. However, a McKinsey analysis found that biosimilars could account for a growing…
China The Chinese healthcare market has transformed dramatically in the past few years. There have been many reforms centred around the country’s vision of becoming a healthcare technology powerhouse in the next couple of decades and ‘innovation’ has become a buzzword touted by both foreign and local players alike. But in…
UK A new report from the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) asserts that the UK biotech industry is booming, despite Brexit uncertainties. Financing raised by UK biotechs in 2019 was down on the record year of 2018, but up on 2016 and 2017. Made with Visme Infographic Maker A longer term perspective…
UK Although biotech financing in the UK took a hit last year in large part thanks to uncertainty around Brexit, 2019 was still the British industry’s third-best year on record. The UK’s exit from the European Union looms large over all British industries, including pharmaceuticals and biotech. Unsurprisingly, therefore, UK…
China Dr Yuguang Wang, CEO of Maxinovel Pharmaceuticals, recaps his three decades of industry experience across Big Pharma, biotech and CRO organizations in China and the US, his motivation to establish Maxinovel Pharmaceuticals as a global, semi-virtual biotech, and their mission to develop a pipeline of orally-active one-pill combination of immuno-oncology…
China 2019 was a bumper year for biotech companies listing on the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx), with nine pre-revenue biotechs and eight revenue-generating biotech and biotech-related firms, mostly originating from mainland China, listing last year. The average amount of funds raised by these was a whopping four to five times higher…
Opinion Health Catalyst’s Elia Stupka explains why and how patients must be kept at the centre of the healthcare systems of the future, even as they become increasingly data-driven. Healthcare data is seen by many as the ‘new goldmine,’ with many businesses in this field evaluated and sold at a significant…
Webinar With the recent publication of Ten years on: Measuring the Return from Pharmaceutical Innovation 2019, PharmaBoardroom has teamed up with Deloitte to offer its readers an exclusive webinar on The Future of Biopharma. On 25th February 2020, join us to discuss the major trends that have impacted the biopharma industry over the past ten years, the…
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