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Switzerland From regenerating damaged muscles to rewriting the cell manufacturing playbook, Switzerland’s next wave of biotech innovators is turning regenerative medicine into a precision science. Once considered futuristic, technologies like autologous tissue grafts, gene-edited therapies, and cell-state reprogramming are now gaining real-world traction with Swiss startups at the forefront. These five…

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 Founded in 2020 with a focus on diseases related to skeletal muscle damage, MUVON Therapeutics is currently targeting a significant unmet need in women’s health, Female Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI). CEO & co-founder Deana Mohr-Haralampieva, outlines MUVON’s progress into phase II clinical trials and its plans to raise EUR 65…

Belgium Françoise Smets, dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), introduces the innovation and research capacity of the institution as the top-ranking French-speaking university in Belgium. Smets goes on to give her assessment of the Belgian academic landscape and shares the importance of the…

Belgium Paul Herijgers, dean of the faculty of medicine at leading Belgian university KU Leuven, outlines the collaborative research projects the university is undertaking and its role within the wider Belgian innovation ecosystem.   [KU Leuven] is actually the most innovative university in Europe according to Reuters Rankings thanks to our…

Canada John London, CEO at Nuvo Pharmaceuticals Inc., explains how he and his partners turned the Canadian company from insolvency into a profitable enterprise with FDA approved products that are being marketed around the world. He further talks opportunities in the topical pain management market and how Nuvo Pharmaceuticals will enhance…

Pharma Daniel de Labauve d’Arifat discusses how to accomplish the new Mauritian government’s Vision 2030 strategy, his company’s successful track record as the main wholesaler and distributor of pharmaceuticals on the island, and the Mauritian business environment. As articulated in the Prime Minister’s recent Vision 2030 speech, the new government wants to…

pharma The managing director of Southern Medical, Malan de Villiers illustrates the sheer diversity of the company’s current activities and portfolio within South Africa as a leading implant devices company, while depicting his vision on the South African medical device market. He also reveals the competitive and regulatory challenges in the…

sunscreen Deutsche Pharma’s general manager, Luis Aguilera, speaks about the company’s long family history and growth ambitions t. Deutsche Pharma commercializes its own brands and acts as distributor, supplying the local market with a variety of products for paediatrics and dermatology. Focusing on high value products, Aguilera has found partnering to…