Europe Rainer Westermann offers a sobering take on Europe’s declining global status as both a source and recipient of biopharmaceutical innovation. He argues that the time for a paradigm shift in how the EU values innovation is now, calling for pricing system reform, speedier regulatory and HTA procedures, manufacturing investments, and…
Europe Ophthalmology is a booming niche, with investment flowing in, M&A up, and a burgeoning cast of biotechs – including the three European leaders profiled below – vying for a share of a global market set to top USD 93.7 billion by 2030 The field can already boast two bona-fide…
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 France may have ceded Europe’s top spot for the sheer number of clinical trial starts to Spain in 2023, but it remains one of Europe’s most strategically valuable destinations for complex, high-science clinical research. In oncology and rare diseases clinical R&D especially, France punches well above its weight, supported by…
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…
Europe Writing in the January 2026 edition of DIA’s Global Forum, Samantha Holmes and Fiona Adshead of the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition argue that climate change is already reshaping healthcare and the medicines life cycle, while the pharma sector itself contributes materially to global emissions. Against this backdrop, the European Medicines Agency…
France This conversation with Bruno Dubois offers a clear, experience-driven perspective on how Alzheimer’s disease is being redefined, from diagnosis and biomarkers to prevention and early intervention. Drawing on decades at the forefront of neurology, he challenges simplified biological definitions, explains why risk must be stratified with rigour, and outlines a…
Global 2025 was a year of volatility for pharma and healthcare. In particular, the speed with which the administration of Donald Trump makes (and often then changes) consequential policy decisions has left industry stakeholders in the US and globally scrambling to fall in line. There are already clear winners and losers…
France Pascaline Gervoson, CEO of PiLeJe, a family-owned French nutraceutical company, represents the second generation of leadership following her father’s founding vision in 1992. With 27 years within the organisation and five years as Chief Executive, she oversees a EUR 180 million enterprise specialising in dietary supplements distributed through medical prescription…
Italy Top recent stories from Italian pharma, including Angelini’s EUR 150 million EU collaboration for European health startups, Chiesi’s new deals for enzyme replacement therapies and gene editing, and why Menarini is setting its sights on the US. European Union teams up with Angelini to funnel €150M to European health…
Europe Cancer is one of Europe’s most urgent health challenges. Responsible for 23 percent of all mortality on the continent, the burden is particularly acute outside the EU5, where access timelines vary dramatically. Countries in Central and Eastern Europe, for example, face some of Europe’s highest cancer mortality rates, largely due…
Spain The latest stories from Spain’s booming healthcare and life science industry. Spain still leads Europe for clinical trial numbers, while a recent meeting between Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez and Roche CEO Thomas Schinecker on a new manufacturing agreement speaks to global pharma’s continued focus on the country. In other news,…
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