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Pharma Phyto-Pharmaceuticals often offer better, more sustainable treatment solutions than synthetic pharmaceuticals, explains the Sekem group’s CEO Helmy Abouleish. Atos Pharma’s CEO Ashraf Mamdouh expands on the companies current plans for expansion in Egypt and internationally, as their manufacturing facility is currently awaiting EMA and FDA certification.  ATOS Pharma is a…

Pharmaceuticals Marius Fourie highlights implications of the recent merger between the company’s two subsidiaries and the unparalleled levels of value and service the consolidated organization will offer. He also illustrates the affiliate’s strategies in navigating the country’s dual-model healthcare system and the ways in which effective education and training can benefit all stakeholders…

Pharma Pharmaceuticals Isabelle de Walsche, Managing Director of Gedeon Richter Benelux, provides us with an update on the development of this striving and ambitious player in the women’s healthcare field and shares her multi-country experience in market access and innovation perception. The Gedeon Richter Benelux affiliate only opened in 2012. What were…

Pharma Prof. Luigi Naldini, Director of TIGET, discusses the success of the institute and the groundbreaking partnerships it has formed with the pharmaceutical industry, as well as his ambitions for TIGET over the coming years. Prof. Naldini, the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy was set up in 1995 as…

Pharma By square mile, Puerto Rico has more post-secondary institutions than anywhere in the world. This concentration has led to the development of a number of college and university programs which produce world-class talent for the territory’s life sciences industry. From the manufacturing perspective, one of the leading institutes in Puerto…

Pharma Automation and consolidation have affected pharmaceutical companies worldwide, and Puerto Rico is no exception. The island has benefited from the trend towards lower volume, higher value products which often use the smaller plants Puerto Rico offers. Some companies, like Merck, are transforming their sites from pure manufacturing to commercialization. These trends point to…

Pharma Puerto Rico is starting to move towards greater R&D activity. World class research centers in cardiovascular, oncology, and soon molecular science are putting the territory on the global map for pharmaceutical research. But Puerto Rico is starting to move beyond manufacturing and towards greater R&D activity. Puerto Rico’s Cardiovascular and…

France The recently appointed general manager of Galderma France, reveals the company’s ambitious objective for the next ten years: to increase sales from two to ten billion Euros (2.18 billion USD to 10.9 billion USD). Mr Mosse talks about their strategy to expand beyond the traditional dermatology prescription market and explore opportunities…

Pharma Eric Goupil reveals how the global CMO market has expanded considerably over recent years, with a move towards a more strategic mind-set in the pharmaceutical industry. Unither´s business model is to focus on unit-dose products and in particular, sterile unit-dose using Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) technology and today they are competing on…

Pharma The presence in France of Swiss medical compression garment manufacturer Sigvaris dates back more than 100 years. The current president, Alain Bertheas, describes the company’s history and explains its garments. You came to Sigvaris in 1980, and have remained in the company ever since. What have been some of the…

Pharma Pasquale Frega, General Manager for Celgene Italy, discusses the company’s rapid growth and imminent entry into immunology, the business and regulatory environment for innovators in the country and the characteristics of the Italian market that make it especially promising to Celgene. Mr. Frega, to start off, Imnovid, Celgene’s newest oral treatment…

Pharma Today’s global interconnectedness requires fast and reliable delivery of goods. DHL Thailand and Indochina Managing Director, Chananyarak Phetcharat, explains the global-reaching organization’s strategy to facilitate safe and dependable delivery of healthcare products, the organization’s unique ability to adapt to local policies and her ambitious vision for the development of DHL…