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Switzerland One in six infections worldwide is now resistant to first-line antibiotics, making antimicrobial resistance (AMR) a major global health threat. Despite an extremely challenging commercial landscape, a handful of bold startups continue to innovate in this space, but can they turn the tide?   Microorganisms that develop AMR were directly…

Switzerland The World Health Organisation has highlighted antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as one of the leading global public health and development threats today. AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to antimicrobial medicines (including antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitics). This makes infections harder to treat…

Switzerland Although the global biotech sector is currently struggling with equity and debt financing, Swiss biotech is on the up. 2023 saw the Swiss biotech sector hit record revenues of CHF 7.3 billion (EUR 7.8 billion) with capital investments surpassing CHF 2 billion. While funding inflows still did not reach the…

Switzerland David Veitch, the CEO of Basilea Pharmaceutica, shares his insights into the company’s strategic vision to become a global leader in the antifungal and antibacterial space. Veitch discusses the unique challenges faced by companies navigating the anti-infectives space, the importance of public funding from partnerships with governmental organizations like BARDA,…

Portugal Joaquim Chaves, CEO of Basi Laboratories, presents the Basi production success story to readers. Located in Mortágua, two hours north of Portugal’s third city, Coimbra, the vast production site recently received 40 million euros of investment for manufacturing expansion and has strong intentions to increase the scope of their internationalization…

Biotech Ronald Scott, CEO of Basilea, a biotech company that was spun out of Roche in 2000, talks about launching its first two products, Zevtera and Cresemba; the milestone agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop Zevtera for the US market; and about the company’s partnering…

basic research The Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences (TCELS) CEO shares his ambitions to make Thailand a place for innovative business practices, the organization’s role in promoting and supporting research and the unique role TCELS plays in creating a regulatory frameworks for the life sciences industry. What special experiences led…

CRO Omega CRO has evolved from its beginnings as a CRO contracted by local and multinational pharmaceutical companies into an organization leading clinical, epidemiological and observational studies of public interest across Turkey. CEO Berk Özdemir discusses the highlights of these studies, including a giant EU 7th Framework project EU-GEI study on…

hospitals Medipol hospital’s medical director discusses the private institution’s current role in the Turkish healthcare system, and their plans for expansion in the coming years.  How did Medipol come into existence, and where does the hospital stand today? Medipol was opened three years ago, and today the hospital has 500 beds,…

basic research Professor Burak Erman, the leader of the Drug Research Center at Koç University, and his colleague Hakan Orer, discuss the early activities of the center as a catalyst for collaboration and communication between the pharmaceutical industry and academic sciences in Turkey, as well as the center’s achievements so far, including…

clinical trials The growth of clinical trials in Korea has been remarkable in recent years. The number of clinical trials performed by multinationals has shot up from five in 2000 to 303 in 2012, with 367 clinical trials performed by local companies. In the same year, Seoul was ranked the number one…

R&D Tatiana Vidaurre is currently chief of Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas (INEN), Peru’s sole institution dedicated to cancer. She talks about the importance of global collaboration and their ultimate goal of preventing advanced-stage cancer.   INEN’s history dates back to 1939, with a colorful history in Peru throughout the decades.…