Tagged with Aging

Saudi Arabia Extending not only lifespan, but “healthspan,” and ensuring people live healthier lives for longer is moving beyond purely clinical settings. Experts gathered last week at the Global Healthspan 2025 Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia focused on factors such as lifestyle, the role of virtual tools, and a more holistic approach…

Saudi Arabia As life expectancy increases, how do we ensure that quality of life does too? That is the conundrum that Saudi Arabia’s Hevolution Foundation was set up to help solve. Hevolution invests in extending the healthy human lifespan across the world through research and treatments which target age-related diseases and conditions.…

India Solid dosage forms like capsules and tablets make up over 70 percent of all medicines prescribed globally. In the view of Ajit Singh, chairman of Indian solid dosage form pioneer ACG, these products continue to be the “backbone” of the pharmaceutical industry and hold particular relevance given ongoing global debates…

Italy Bormioli Pharma’s Andrea Lodetti outlines the company’s evolution towards becoming an international leader in the pharma and primary packaging business, COVID-related business impacts, the shift towards localised manufacturing, and the importance of earlier and deeper collaboration between pharma companies and packaging providers.   I hope that the cooperation between packaging…

Asia-Pacific Stewart Campbell, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, West Pharmaceutical Services, highlights how the drug containment and delivery system industry is evolving to meet the rapidly changing needs of Asian biopharma; West’s crucial role in the fight against COVID-19 and how it met surging demands for injectable packaging in…

Asia-Pacific Stewart Campbell, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, West Pharmaceutical Services, highlights how the drug containment and delivery system industry is evolving to meet the rapidly changing needs of Asian biopharma; West’s crucial role in the fight against COVID-19 and how it met surging demands for injectable packaging in…

Belgium Fluidda is the world leader in the field of functional respiratory imaging which combines HRCT scans and computational fluid dynamics technology. CEO Jan de Backer outlines the major developments of the Belgian firm’s recent history including expansion into the US, how a USD ten million injection of Series A financing…

Hungary Csaba Kis, CEO of Qualiskills, shares his insights on the packaging capabilities of the company, its sustainable competitive advantage, the impact of the European serialization guidelines, and the company’s strategic objectives for the future.   With the Falsified Medicines Directive of February 9, almost all drugs within the EU had…

Puerto Rico Salvador Montes, director of Essentra Packaging in Puerto Rico, explains how the company has positioned itself as the preferred supplier of secondary packaging to the life sciences industry on the island by offering a complete start-to-end solution, from design to manufacturing, as well as by remaining price competitive through productivity…

Puerto Rico With a special focus on life science companies, 3A Press is the leading printing and packaging company in the Caribbean. President Marie Rosado explains how her family has managed to compete in the industry for three generations and reveals the reasoning behind a recent seven-million-dollar investment that she hopes will…

Puerto Rico Rolando Torres, executive vice president of global manufacturing for CooperVision, explains why Puerto Rico is a force to be reckoned with in medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Moreover, he provides a general overview of their manufacturing operations and their large-scale efforts to make sustainable practices the new global standard.  …

Taiwan Medimaging Integrated Solution Inc (MiiS) originated from the incubation center at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan. MiiS started its business primarily based on the foundation of innovation, and their main product is the Horus Scope used for diagnostic imaging. The Founder & CEO, Dr. Stefan Cheng holds a…