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clinical trials The general manager of Roche Argentina weighs up the factors that have allowed the country to be included among the top three performing markets in the region for Roche, and explains how the country has become an increasingly important location for clinical trials for the company.      What have…

innovation Javier Anitua, Managing Director of Mylan Spain, discusses the preservation of Spain’s pharmacy model, preventive solutions for pharmacists, and the need for higher generic penetration in Spain.   What more needs to be done in Spain to communicate the value that generics bring to stakeholders who set prices? The sustainability…

clinical trials Ciro Caravaggio, General Manager at Roche Chile discusses Roche’s mission as a highly specialized biotech with a long presence in Chile. He stresses the importance of the affiliate’s role in clinical trials and the key to success in the Chilean pharmaceutical market. M. Caravaggio, you arrived at the helm of…

Pfizer “Although Pfizer is today one of the major contributors to Investigator-Initiated Research in Portugal in very important areas like inflammation, vaccines and rare diseases, it is also important that we reverse the trends observed concerning our levels of local investment in R&D, namely through the attraction of more clinical trials…

market access José Aranda da Silva, General Manager of Formifarma Portugal, stresses the importance of market access, demonstrating added value for companies today, as well as the need for a revamp of Portugal’s outdated reimbursement system.   What was your inspiration for creating Formifarma? Having spent my career in various fields of…

Clinical trials Endang W. Hoyaranda, President Director of Prodia Group, speaks about the ongoing challenges of clinical trials in Indonesia, especially in remote medical communities, and why changing the mindset from ‘guinea pig’ testing to medical advancement opportunities is key to changing the landscape of clinical trials in the country. Although Prodia…

Basic Research “If you look at the cuts in the public sector, the science budget has been relatively lightly touched. This sends a signal at a very high level that science, the knowledge economy, and the smart training of people are very important for our economic recovery,” says Mark Ferguson, Director General,…

Clinical trials TaiGen is on the brink of releasing Taiwan’s first innovative drug. In this interview, the Chairman and CEO of the company discusses the development path the company chose to take, and explains the decision to market the drug first in China. Nemonoxacin will be the first-ever pharmaceutical developed in this…

Clinical trials The President & CEO of Vita Genomics talks about the advantages that genomic testing offer both to sick and healthy patients, as well as the opportunities to catalogue the science behind Traditional Chinese Medicine. What is the vision behind Vita Genomics? Vita Genomics was founded in 2001. At the time,…

Clinical trials The chairman and CEO of Medigen shares his insights on a significant past three years for the company, which included both an IPO and major developments for the company’s innovative molecule PI-88. He also offers his perspective on the increasing synergies between Taiwan and China in the biotech sector. During our…

clinical trials You are the CEO of GCP CMIC ClinPlus in addition to R&G PharmaStudies, and before that you headed a number of companies as well. Could you introduce yourself and all the many moving parts you lead to our readers? To begin with, I was a physician for 10 years before…

Latam Clinical Trials While LatAm originally emerged from the SIPLAS organization, how was it evolved since then to be where it is today? LatAm was born in 2000 as a business unit of SIPLAS labs and was known at the time as SIPLAS Research Organization. We decided to change our name to LatAm…