China This week’s China healthcare highlights from PharmaBoardroom content partner Selesta include Simcere securing Greater China rights to RB0026, Immunofoco resubmitting its Hong Kong IPO, Fulcrum merging with Slate Medicines, Henlius signing a US$ 322M deal with Sandoz, and KeyMed proposing a STAR Market listing. Clinical highlights feature Sunshine Guojian’s NMPA…

Europe Rock-bottom prices, regulatory red tape, and intense competition from Asia have made life difficult for Europe’s generics and biosimilar producers. Yet a handful of companies are not just surviving this squeeze but thriving in it – through diversification, geographic focus, R&D intensity, or sheer scientific specialisation. Here’s how four of…

China Chinese drugmakers are increasingly looking past the NMPA toward approvals in the EU, US, and Australia. Daphne Smyth of Veristat has watched this shift from the front row, guiding sponsors through the data gaps, bridging studies, and regulatory quirks that stand between a China-developed drug and a Western marketing authorisation.…

USA Neuroscience is back. After a litany of divestments and scale backs in the 2010s, diseases of the brain are now the second-most-funded area in biotech, behind only cancer. However, this remains a complex and challenging field, leading neuroscience biotechs – three of which are profiled below – to develop very…

Europe The European Commission has set itself an ambitious target: making Europe the world’s most attractive destination for life sciences by 2030. In recent conversations with PharmaBoardroom, executives leading Europe for AbbVie, BeOne Medicines, CSL, Merz Therapeutics, and Novartis would love to see this realised and agree that Europe’s scientific fundamentals…

Global Five conferences, five continents’ worth of anxiety, one unmistakable pattern: the global pharma industry is being reshaped faster than it can keep up. From Philadelphia to Geneva, Istanbul to Chicago to London, the Shawview Consulting team found the same threads running through every panel and corridor conversation — AI and…

UK Seven months into the job as CEO of GSK, Luke Miels has moved faster and bigger than most expected. Having laid out an M&A strategy based around small bolt-ons at the start of the year, Miels then ripped up his own rule book with the USD 10.6 billion acquisition of…

APAC For two decades the case for running a clinical trial in Asia was essentially arithmetic: the same study, for less money. That argument has not gone away, but it is no longer the one APAC’s own CRO leaders make. Asia Pacific is now the only region in the world where…

Global Affordability and innovation are usually framed as a zero-sum trade-off in drug pricing debates. Zeba M. Khan, editor-in-chief of ISPOR’s Value & Outcomes Spotlight magazine, makes the case that they don’t have to be — if pricing policy is grounded in evidence rather than blunt instruments. Khan walks through the…

Africa Can a medicine be considered “available” if it can’t be trusted? As Africa’s manufacturing base expands and its regulatory systems mature, that question is moving to the centre of the continent’s health agenda. Lenias Hwenda maps out why 2026 is a turning point for African patient safety — anchored by…

MEA Once regarded as a strategic afterthought by international biopharma, the Middle East has undergone a profound transformation in recent years, emerging as an early adopter of next-generation therapies for rare diseases. Regional regulatory authorities are accelerating approval timelines, reflecting an aggressive institutional ambition to secure speedy access to cutting-edge medical…

MEA A quarter-century after the Human Genome Project revolutionized biology, genomic sequencing has matured from an ambitious scientific frontier into an indispensable clinical reality. Today, molecular insights routinely guide everything from targeted oncology to rare disease diagnostics. Yet, this genomic revolution harbours a profound systemic bias: nearly 90 percent of all…