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Asia-Pacific The APAC region —with an approximate ten percent growth in trial numbers between 2017 and 2022— is rapidly becoming the world’s leading market for clinical trials. Karen Chu, CEO of Harvest Integrated Research Organization (HiRO), a CRO that serves Asian, US and European clients, has experienced the boom first hand.…

Global Dr Vivienne Marshall, senior director of the Center for Advanced Therapies at the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center, part of BioBridge Global, outlines some of the major barriers to wider adoption of cell and gene therapies: complexity, variability, and the lack of robust standards. Dr Marshall also highlights the…

Global Mohamed Meshref M.D, PhD is a Professor of Oncology at Cairo University and Regional Medical Director at Boehringer Ingelheim for India, Middle East, Turkey & Africa (IMETA). Here, Prof. Meshref discusses the importance of an ‘early medical affairs mindset’ within the pharma industry whereby medical affairs personnel engage much earlier…

Hong Kong The Hong Kong Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry (HKAPI) represents the interests of the global R&D-based biopharmaceutical industry in Hong Kong and Macau. Senior Executive Director Sabrina Chan outlines the access to innovation scenario in the territory today, the niches in which Hong Kong stands out from the crowd as…

Turkey A roundup of the latest pharma and healthcare news from Turkey including Omya’s new Turkish manufacturing site, Santa Farma’s fourth EU-GMP certification and the collaboration agreement between BioNTech and Turkey’s Koç University.   Omya production site in Turkey gains health authority approval (OutsourcingPharma) Swiss company, Omya, has gained official Turkish…

Egypt First founded in 2019 as a new regulatory body independent from Egypt’s Ministry of Health, the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) has made significant progress over the last three years. Now recognised as one of the MEA region’s leading regulators, the EDA can point to several notable successes in Egypt’s battle…

UK National Health Service (NHS) England CEO Amanda Pritchard has raised concerns about the state of British healthcare in recent weeks and months, proclaiming that the NHS is in a worse place today than in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and that pressures on hospitals, maternity care and services…

Canada Drs Neil Cashman and Larry Altstiel of ProMIS Neurosciences weigh in on recent progress towards an effective therapy for Alzheimer’s disease, potentially representing a break from three decades of scientific stagnation.   Are we there yet with Alzheimer’s immunotherapies? No. But we have a map, and it’s a good one.…

Global David H. Crean, Managing General Partner for Equitos Venture Partners and Cardiff Advisory, highlights news from the recent BIO Convention held face-to-face in San Diego, CA for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. After more than two years, the 2022 BIO International Convention (BIO2022) was back…

USA When the FDA gave Novartis the historic green light for Kymriah – the first gene therapy approved in the United States – in 2017, the agency declared that it was “ushering in a new approach” to the treatment of cancer and other serious and life-threatening diseases. Today, more than 20…

China Writing in the April edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, the DIA China Leadership and Career Community look at the Chinese pharmaceutical innovation ecosystem’s R&D talent gap and the China Pharmaceutical R&D Talent Innovation Research Project that was launched to address it.   Over the past five years, China’s pharmaceutical innovation industry…

India The latest healthcare and pharma news from India, including the opening up of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to all adults; the lowering of vaccine prices; and the licences granted to 19 Indian pharmaceutical firms for the generic version of Pfizer’s oral antiviral COVID-19 pill.   COVID-19 vaccine booster shots now…