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Pharma Legal Handbook Want to know more about cannabinoid drugs, medicinal cannabis and opioid drugs in Germany? Read on! Prepared in association with Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, a leading global law firm, this is an extract from The Pharma Legal Handbook: Germany, available to purchase here for USD 99.   Cannabinoid Drugs 1.…

Sweden We recently analysed the contents of 20 interviews conducted with country managers at multinational pharma companies in Sweden and found some underlying words and themes present in the majority of the interviews (see above for the full wordcloud). This is an exclusive glimpse into what is currently at the top…

China Shirley Xu, president of Baxter Greater China, reflects on her extraordinary 26-year (and counting) career with Baxter China, including her perspectives on the success factors behind Baxter’s growth in the country over the past decades, its strengths as a diversified healthcare company offering not only pharmaceutical products but medical devices…

Puerto Rico Mayra L Guzman-Kaslow, president and CEO of GK Pharmaceuticals Contract Manufacturing Operations (GK CMO), the first biopharmaceutical company owned by minority woman in the US, highlights the obstacles she and her business partners faced on the way of setting up the company. She also explains why Puerto Rico has been…

India Unlike many of his pharma peers, Vivek Sharma worked in operations and finance for two decades before joining the life sciences industry as head of Piramal Pharma Solutions (PPS) in 2011. Already established as one of the world’s leading CDMOs with a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia, Sharma…

Switzerland With cancer now causing one in eight deaths globally and, in Europe, even outpacing serious cardiovascular conditions in terms of prevalence, Switzerland has long positioned itself firmly at the vanguard of countering a disease which the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts will reach an incidence rate of 22 million new…

Hungary Hungary’s Minister of Finance Mihály Varga has repeatedly underlined the importance of the pharmaceutical industry to the country’s economy in recent weeks. With this strong governmental backing, pharma stands to increase its standing within the overall Hungarian economy.   Speaking at the inauguration of a new plant for Egis Pharmaceuticals…

Sweden The Nordic headquarters of Danish medical dermatology specialist LEO Pharma sits in Sweden, led by the recently appointed Klaus Abel. Abel discusses the importance of Sweden to the global group, its ambitious goal of helping 125 million patients by 2025, and the leading role that the Nordics has to play…

Pharma Market Poland is by far the largest pharma market in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, with a total value of EUR 6.352 billion for 2017. The Czech Republic is in second place, followed by Romania and Hungary Made with Visme Infographic Maker     The CEE countries that exported…

UAE PharmaBoardroom highlights three pharma executives whose experience in the Middle East has served to propel them into global leadership positions.   The Middle East and North Africa region is comprised of 22 countries and has a population of nearly 400 million. The region is home to a fast-growing pharma market…

UAE The top 10 pharma companies in the UAE ranked by 2018 sales according to IQVIA data. Swiss giant Novartis leads the way with USD 196 million in sales, followed by GSK on 129 million and AstraZeneca with 126 million.   Made with Visme Infographic Maker

China Download our latest pharma country report on China here   2019 is a landmark year for China, marking not only the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1949 but also the economic ‘opening up’ and liberalization in 1979 by Premier…