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Pharma Legal Handbook Patents and trademarks of drugs in Luxembourg – an overview. Prepared in association with Emmanuelle Ragot, an independent firm anchored in Luxembourg, this is an extract from The Pharma Legal Handbook: Luxembourg, available to purchase here for GBP 99. *Many laws (11) have been published in Luxembourg in 2020, but 100%…

Pharma Legal Handbook The key facts about regulatory reform in Luxembourg. Prepared in association with Emmanuelle Ragot, an independent firm anchored in Luxembourg, this is an extract from The Pharma Legal Handbook: Luxembourg, available to purchase here for GBP 99. *Many laws (11) have been published in Luxembourg in 2020, but 100% of them…

Pharma Legal Handbook Cannabinoid drugs, medicinal cannabis and opioid drugs in Luxembourg – a comprehensive legal overview. Prepared in association with Emmanuelle Ragot, an independent firm anchored in Luxembourg, this is an extract from The Pharma Legal Handbook: Luxembourg, available to purchase here for GBP 99. *Major changes are expected in 2022 on the…

Italy Gilead Sciences’ vice president and general manager for Italy, Valentino Confalone, outlines the company’s tumultuous pandemic journey in one of the first global epicentres; the role that Italy played in the early studies of remdesivir as a treatment against severe COVID-19 disease; how Gilead is working to eliminate viral Hepatitis…

Saudi Arabia Saudi Chemical Company Holding (SCCH), Saudi Arabia’s leading manufacturer of civil and military explosives, has been expanding its pharma sector footprint in recent years. Today, the company has capabilities across pharma distribution through SITCO Pharma, manufacturing (both for its own products and as a contract manufacturing organisation (CMO)) via AJA…

Spain The executive president of Laboratorios Rubió, Carlos Rubió, analyses the fundamentals behind the Catalan company’s double-digit growth, its international expansion plan, which includes the United States, the doubling of capacity at their Castellbisbal plant, and the challenges of the Spanish market. A producer of hydroxychloroquine, Laboratorios Rubió experienced skyrocketing demand…

Saudi Arabia Historic Saudi healthcare firm Tamer Group has transitioned from a distributor into one of the country’s leading fully-fledged pharmaceutical companies since the 1990s, aided in large part by strategic partnerships with leading Japanese firms. With the family-owned firm seeking further progression, Chairman and Managing Partner Aymen Tamer highlights his vision…

Saudi Arabia Mohamed Mazen Batterjee, managing director of Batterjee Pharma, explains how he has turned the business around since joining in 2014, the interplay between the firm’s contract and proprietary manufacturing operations, and how it differentiates itself in the competitive Saudi market.   The future is rosy. [Saudi Arabia] has good capabilities,…

Saudi Arabia Jamie Phares, Managing Director, Janssen, the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson in the GCC, comments on the evolving approach to healthcare provision in the region, the role of Saudi Arabia in the regional healthcare market, and what the country needs to further develop its biopharma sector. In addition, she…

Saudi Arabia Melvin D’Souza outlines the strategy that Novo Nordisk Saudi Arabia – the country’s market leader in diabetes care, obesity, hemophilia, and growth hormone treatment – is following and analyzes the potential impact of local content enhancement for the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 healthcare transformation plans.   The fact that Novo Nordisk…

Spain Maria Jose Sanchez Losada, general manager for CSL Behring Iberia, highlights the challenges that plasma-derived therapies faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, how the firm competes with well-established local players in the Spanish market, and its exciting upcoming therapies across immunology, respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, transplantation and haematology.   Plasma-derived therapies are…

Global Speaking from Ipsen’s US headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts off the back of a whirlwind first 16 months as the firm’s Chief Business Officer, Philippe-Lopes Fernandes outlines his deal-making philosophy, how the iconic French mid-cap represents a reliable partner for innovative biotechs looking to establish a global reach for their programs,…