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Mexico Joao Carapeto outlines Roche Diagnostics’ commitment to innovation, prevention, and diagnostics, emphasizing the need for robust partnerships and increased investment in early detection to address Mexico’s healthcare challenges. He highlights the significance of managing an aging population and improving the quality of life through advanced healthcare solutions.   Prevention and…

Mexico FUNSALUD is a leading Mexican think tank focused on improving public health through research, advocacy, and promoting public-private partnerships. As Mexico prepares to welcome a new president, FUNSALUD’s Hector Valle casts his eye over the evolving healthcare landscape in terms of both progress made in addressing access gaps and how…

Hong Kong Dr Juliana Chan, one of Asia’s leading endocrinologists, is also the founding director of GemVCare, a company that provides data to medical professionals to advise patients on diabetes prevention, diagnosis, and treatment based on genetic profiling. In conversation, she discusses some of the key differences in how diabetes manifests in Asian…

Global In 2024, people living with HIV have more, and more varied, access to HIV prevention and treatment options than ever before. Thanks to global activism efforts forcing pharma to step up, and the establishment of some vital institutional structures in the first decade of the millennium, access is up, while…

Mexico This year has seen no less than five GM changes at international pharma companies’ Mexican affiliates. Pfizer, MSD, Roche, Sanofi and Gilead have all taken on new local leadership. In some cases, the appointments represent a first for affiliates that have never had female leaders while in others they coincide…

United Kingdom The newly elected UK government’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting has a full plate of challenges ahead. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is plagued with a chronic lack of funding, staffing crunches and backlogs, while the country’s life sciences sector is seemingly in decline. Streeting…

China We last spoke with Xueming Qian, CEO and co-founder of the biotech Transcenta in 2019. Since then, the company has seen some important milestones: listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and advancing its first-line gastric cancer treatment into phase III trials. Qian outlines Transcenta’s progress, including its global multi-centre…

Spain Some of the biggest stories coming out of Spain’s pharma industry, including Brookfield’s bid for a troubled Grifols; Esteve’s Spanish plant expansion; Rovi’s offers for a potential buyout of its CDMO business, and the EUR 90 million earmarked by Spain’s Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) to promote biomedical…

Hong Kong Immuno Cure has a unique approach to the failure-ridden field of HIV vaccine development: focusing on a therapeutic vaccine for already infected individuals rather than a preventive vaccine. Founders Tom Lau and Dr Xia Jin explain the company’s origins as a spin-off from the University of Hong Kong’s AIDS Institute…

China General manager Guillaume Delmotte explores Ipsen’s strategic initiatives in China, highlighting the importance of innovation, addressing healthcare challenges, and fostering a sustainable, people-centric organization. Delmotte emphasizes the rapid pace of change and the vital role of human connections in driving success.   Moving [our China headquarters] to Shanghai allowed Ipsen…

China After a Big Pharma career in the US, Dr Yao-Chang Xu returned to China and in 2016 founded Abbisko, a biotech that began with a focus on small molecule oncology treatments. He shares the company’s evolution over the past eight years, including its exploration of broader therapeutic areas, the major…

Hong Kong Arbele is a clinical stage biotech centred on an innovative T-Cell Engager approach to gastrointestinal cancers. Chairman and founder John Luk explains the prevalence of these cancers in China, the company’s challenging clinical trials journey, and the pursuit of breakthrough and fast-track designations in the US and an IND in…