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Taiwan Dr Chen-Yu Cheng, founder and chairman at Formosa Laboratories & Pharmaceuticals, is leading a strategic transition from generic API manufacturing toward high- value CDMO services and innovative drug development. By leveraging proprietary nanotechnology and antibody-drug conjugate platforms, the group is diversifying into injectables and considering the US market. Dr Cheng…

USA After 25 years at Genzyme and Sanofi, Chris Hwang joined a biotech startup in China in 2016 to develop advanced bioprocessing technologies that reduce cost of goods while maintaining reliable supply. As CTO of Transcenta, he and his team have advanced continuous bioprocessing, delivering dramatic productivity improvements over traditional batch…

France The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with Lyon at its heart, is France’s industrial heartland. Hosting over 500,000 manufacturing and manufacturing-related jobs, AURA is also the nation’s top destination the production of biologics, vaccines, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and medtech. It offers potential investors a fully integrated value chain from early-stage R&D through…

France Lyon – recently announced as the host of BIO-Europe Spring 2027 – has long played a vital role in global health and, in 2026, it stands as one of Europe’s most investable life sciences hubs. While less well-known internationally than Basel, Barcelona, London, or Paris, Lyon stands out from the…

Taiwan Dr Cyrus Yang, CEO of Taiwan Bio Therapeutics, outlines how he transformed the company – founded in 2014 with proprietary MSC‑expansion technology – into a global innovator in cell and gene therapy. Under his leadership, Taiwan Bio advanced MSC and Tregmodalities, built infrastructure via its TDM model, and aims to make immunosuppressants…

Taiwan Biotechnology in Taiwan is no longer a future aspiration, but an industrial system deliberately built for global relevance. In this conversation, the Chairman and CEO of the Development Centre for Biotechnology explain how policy, data, manufacturing discipline, and clinical capability are being aligned to create a coherent national ecosystem. The…

USA Orla Cloak, CEO of Minaris, explains how the organisation. was formed by integrating Minaris Regenerative Medicine, a dedicated cell and gene therapy (CGT) CDMO, and WuXi Advanced Therapies, which brought both CGT manufacturing and established GMP biosafety testing capabilities. Today, Minaris operates under private equity as two complementary businesses: Minaris…

USA Philip Macnabb serves as Chief Executive Officer of Curia, bringing 25 years of private equity-backed healthcare experience to his first venture into the CDMO sector. Joining in March 2023, Macnabb leads a globally diversified CDMO with 20 facilities spanning drug discovery through commercial manufacturing, serving predominantly biotech customers whilst maintaining…

Taiwan Dr David Chang discusses his vision for establishing the world’s premier cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organisation in Taiwan. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience at Celgene, Roche, and Genentech, Dr Chang explains how Taiwan’s unique combination of technical talent, cost efficiency, and geopolitical positioning…

France In recent times, French pharma industry associations have been arguing vociferously about the need to proactively ‘re-industrialise’ French pharma to counter the distortionary impact of protectionist policies and massive state subsidies in rival markets.   “France’s industrial fabric risks being systematically hollowed out if we don’t act fast to mitigate…

France How can mid-sized European pharmaceutical companies, which lack the scale of both Big Pharma and the major generics players, compete in a country like France? Norgine – a specialist player which turns over around EUR 600 million annually – seems to have hit upon a solution: continuous adaptation.   “What…

France France finally has a full budget for 2026, ending months of stasis, and providing a degree of certainty to industry. However, especially for pharma, continual price cuts threaten the sustainability of France as an investment destination, although the reindustrialisation incentives contained with the ‘France 2030’ plan are leading to an…