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Genald Senior – General Manager, Leterago

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Eric Schulze – CEO, Lifetrack Medical Systems

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Mustafa Kemal – President, Turkish Society of Cardiology

The president of the Turkish Society of Cardiology, Mustafa Kemal Erol, discusses the prevalence of cardiovascular…

Savas Malkoc – Secretary General, IEIS, Turkey

The secretary general for Turkey’s Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (IEIS), Savaş Malkoç, highlights…

MEA / Bristol Myers Squibb's Oscar Delgado on Saudi Market Transformation

Bristol Myers Squibb’s General Manager for the Middle East and Africa (MEA) Oscar Delgado outlines the…

Italy / Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines for Healthcare Workers; Chiesi & Angelini’s AI Investments; Sputnik V Manufacturing

The latest Italy Pharma News, including the government’s decision to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for all…

Tolga Karakan – President, Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency…

TITCK is the regulatory agency in charge of ensuring the safety of medicines, health products, cosmetics, and…

Switzerland / A New Era for Mental Health?

Mental health is a global crisis. 25 percent of the world’s population struggle with mental illness; and mental,…

Remo Gujer – General Manager, BMS Switzerland & Austria

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Sputnik V / A Brief History of Russia’s Controversial Viral Vector COVID-19 Vaccine

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APAC / Novartis APAC Oncology Head & Singapore Country President Kevin Zou

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Alan Goh – CEO & Co-Founder, NDR Medical Technology

Alan Goh of NDR Medical Technology, a pioneer in intelligent navigation and image processing for minimally invasive…

APAC / Varian's Kenneth Tan on the Future of Cancer Care in the Region

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MEA / In Conversation with Amgen's Mohamed Nasser

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Antonio Francesco Di Naro – President & Founder, ADIENNE

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Rodrigo Rodriguez – General Manager, Middle East Cluster, Takeda

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Global / Innovative Pharma Doubles Down on IP with New Pact

On World Intellectual Property (IP) Day 2021, the innovative biopharmaceutical industry came together to launch a…

Denmark / Data Crucial To Innovative Access Agreements

Established in 2017, the Danish Medicines Council is the health technology assessment (HTA)-like body in Denmark…

Vaccines / Industry Warns of Manufacturing Bottlenecks; Specific Data Still Lacking

Big Pharma’s representatives are warning of upcoming bottlenecks in the COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing supply…

Russia / Biocad Ramps up Sputnik V Manufacturing; Unlicensed Remdesivir Generics; Chinese Vaccine Rejection

The latest Russia Pharma News, including Biocad’s ramping up of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing,…

Opinion / IP PACT: A Journey, Not a Destination

The issue of COVID-19 vaccine access in developing nations has thrust intellectual property (IP) into global…

Ufuk Kumrulu – Chairman, Polifarma

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Pharma Faces / Dimitri Livadas, Lilly Saudi Arabia

Having commenced his journey with American giant Lilly in 2008, and after almost eight years working in the…

Southeast Asia / Kalbe Underwhelms in Indonesia; Novavax Looks to Filipino Vaccine Manufacturing; Thai Cannabis Market Boom

The latest from the pharma industry in Southeast Asia, including underwhelming results from Kalbe Pharma,…

Dimitri Livadas – President & General Manager, Lilly Saudi Arabia

Lilly Saudi Arabia’s Dimitri Livadas shares some of the misconceptions he had before moving to the Kingdom a…

China / Striving for First-In-Class Drug Innovation with New Patent Law

In a comprehensive new piece, European Patent Attorney André Bourgouin and Adjunct Professor at CEIBS Eric…

Josua Jordi – CEO & Co-Founder, EraCal Therapeutics

Josua Jordi of Swiss biotech EraCal explains the company’s technology platform, their work with zebrafish larvae…

Ashish Mahajan – Partner, Deloitte Life Sciences & Healthcare…

Ashish Mahajan, Partner in Deloitte’s Life Sciences and Healthcare Consulting Practice in Southeast Asia,…

China / Sinopharm Looks to mRNA Vaccines; Hong Kong Biotech Investment Continues to Boom; Another Big Manufacturing Investment for Lonza

The latest news from Chinese pharma and biotech, including news that state-owned Sinopharm is now developing its…

South Africa / Vaccines Made in Africa to Stay in Africa; Aspen Profits Up 21%; Adcock Ingram’s Down 3%

A roundup of the latest news from South African pharma, including Aspen’s impressive annual growth, Adcock…

Zeina Sfeir Lahoud – GM, Biologix

Biologix is a Dubai-based firm that represents international pharma companies by bringing innovative drugs to…

Ida Sofie Jensen – CEO, The Danish Association of the Pharmaceutical…

Ida Sofie Jensen introduces the strong fundamentals underpinning the Danish innovative life sciences industry,…

USA / FDA Calls for Federal Investigation of Itself on Aduhelm; Funding Boost for Medicare, Medicaid, ObamaCare; Questions over Benefits of New Science Agency

The latest from US health care policy, including the Senate budget deal funding for a range of major health care…

Saudi Arabia / In Conversation with Tamer Group Chairman Ayman Tamer

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Switzerland / MSD AVP on Recent Zurich R&D Investment

In February 2020, US giant MSD announced the launch of a new site in Zurich specialising in R&D, data…

Mohamed Fawzy – Country Manager, Pfizer Saudi Arabia

Mohamed Fawzy highlights how Pfizer’s work in Saudi Arabia dovetails with the country’s ambitious ‘Vision…

Switzerland / Tillotts CEO Talks SME M&A Principles

Thomas A. Tóth von Kiskér, longstanding CEO of Tillotts Pharma AG, a specialty pharma player focused on the…

Simranjit Singh – CEO, Guardant Health AMEA

Simranjit Singh highlights Guardant Health’s role in the global precision oncology landscape and how the company…

Thomas F. Schmidt – Managing Director, Roche Pharma Switzerland

Thomas F. Schmidt, country manager of Roche Pharma in its home market of Switzerland discusses adjusting to his…

László Svinger – VP & MD, 3M Middle East & Africa

3M, an American multinational conglomerate, has been in the limelight since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic…

EMEA / Janssen SVP Cyril Titeux Talks Access, Talent, Data & Vaccines

Janssen’s Cyril Titeux highlights the commonalities and challenges within his 31-country portfolio, his hopes and…

LatAm / SIOP President on Urgent Need for Investment in Paediatric Oncology Research

Dr Guillermo Chantada, incoming president-elect of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP)…

Spain / Grifols Invests in Nigerian Manufacturing; Almirall Nabs EMA Approval for AK Treatment; Zendal TB Vaccine Candidate Trials

The latest from Spanish pharma, including the Patent and Trademark Office’s warning of the importance of IP…

Burak Dağlıoğlu – President, Investment Office of the Presidency of the…

The president of the Investment Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, Burak Dağlıoğlu, outlines…

Switzerland / Ticino Looking to Innovative Future With Big New Investment

The small Italian-speaking Canton of Ticino, nestled away in Southern Switzerland, is fast developing its…

Subra Suresh – President, Nanyang Technological University (NTU),…

Professor Subra Suresh, president of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and former director of the US National…

China / Antitrust Threat to Pharma; June BioNTech Vaccine Approval; EpimAb IPO; CanSino Inhaled Vaccine Trials

The latest China pharma news, including the upcoming first domestic approval for a foreign COVID-19 vaccine in…

China / Hong Chow Leaves Roche for Big New Role at Merck

In a big career move on a personal level and a sign of China’s continuing significance to global pharma, Hong…

Diana Arsovic Nielsen – Director, Danish Life Science Cluster

The Danish Life Science Cluster is Denmark’s new national business cluster for life science technology,…

Guillermo Frydman – Managing Director, J&J Singapore

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SeokHoon Kang – General Manager Turkey, Celltrion Healthcare

Best known as the company that launched the world’s first “antibody biosimilar,” Celltrion is looking to…

China / Sinopharm Tops Brand Value Rankings; Simcere Splashes $565M on Alzheimer’s Drug; Innovent-Ascentage Tie-Up A Sign of Biotech Deals to Come?

The latest news from the Chinese pharmaceutical industry, including recent deals between domestic pharma giant…

Morocco / New Recipharm & Sinopharm Deals on Road to “Health Independence”

After implementing the most successful COVID-19 inoculation campaign on the African continent, Morocco is looking…

Singapore / Chronic Disease: A Gathering Storm

Singapore is one of the healthiest countries in Asia with a life expectancy in excess of 82 years buttressed by one…

Varun Sethi – Vice President Healthcare, Southeast Asia (Malaysia,…

Dr Varun Sethi outlines some of the most important trends in ASEAN healthcare today and how DKSH, as a historic…

Global / Top Insights from Regulators 2021

Over the past 12 months, PharmaBoardroom has spoken to the heads of several key regulatory bodies across the world.…

China / Roche Hoping to Spearhead ‘Created in China’ Push with New Innovation Accelerator

In May 2021 Swiss giant Roche launched the ‘Roche Accelerator’ in Shanghai, a USD 31.1 million investment…

Pharma Faces / Marine Queniart-Stojanovic, Sanofi Thailand, Malaysia & Singapore

Industry veteran Marine Queniart-Stojanovic, a self-described “global citizen with a French passport,”…

Avinash Potnis – Managing Director, Novartis Pharma Turkey

Avinash Potnis of Novartis Turkey discusses potential solutions to the country’s access and pricing dilemma which…

Susanne Caspar – CEO, Linnea

Susanne Caspar, CEO at Swiss natural API producer Linnea, talks about her first few months in the company, the…

Piers Ingram – Co-Founder & CEO, Hummingbird Bioscience

Dr Piers Ingram, PhD, co-founder, and CEO of Singapore-based biotech Hummingbird Bioscience, shares his motivation…

Egypt / Trade Deficit Plummets; Big UAE Investments; Vaccine Manufacturing Developments

As of today, the Evergreen boat that blocked global shipping when it got stuck in the Suez Canal has still not been…

Personalised Medicine / Miro Venturi - CEO, Sintetica

Dr Miro Venturi of Swiss injectable anaesthetics and analgesics specialist Sintetica outlines his career journey,…

Global / PharmaBoardroom’s Top 10 Most Read Interviews of 2021 (So Far)

PharmaBoardroom has spread its wings far and wide in 2021 (albeit digitally!), from well covered markets such as…

Mohammed Al-Tawil – Regional Managing Director & Head of Human Pharma…

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Regional Managing Director and Head of Human Pharma in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa…

Global / Is Everything So Wrong at GSK?

British pharmaceuticals giant, GSK, one of the UK’s largest companies by market capitalization, is once again…

Georg Boonen – CEO, Max Zeller

Georg Boonen, CEO of Switzerland’s leading phytopharmaceutical player Max Zeller, discusses the company’s…

Switzerland / Michael Altorfer - CEO, Swiss Biotech Association

Michael Altorfer, CEO of the Swiss Biotech Association, a membership organisation representing the interests of the…

COVID-19 Vaccines / Valneva: A Success Story for France?

While Big Pharma companies like Pfizer, Janssen and AstraZeneca, have grabbed the headlines over the past year for…

Denmark / In Conversation with New Danish Medicines Agency Head Lars Bo Nielsen

In a wide-ranging interview, incoming director general of the Danish Medicines Agency Lars Bo Nielsen discusses the…

Luis Iglesias – President & Head of EMEA, Santen

Santen is a leading multinational company that specializes in ophthalmology. President and Head for Europe, Middle…

Spain / Market Growth; Esteve’s US Expansion; PTS Acquisition

The latest from Spanish pharma, including the acquisition of PTS by a private equity group for its nanoparticle…

Ai Li Siow – Managing Director, Siemens Healthineers Singapore

Siemens Healthineers Singapore’s Ai Li Siow outlines how her affiliate has pivoted in order to continue to…

APAC / The Challenges of Regulatory Convergence in Medtech

Regulatory harmonisation for medical devices between countries in Asia-Pacific has long been a challenging issue,…

Erika Pagani – Country Manager, Pfizer Singapore

Erika Pagani, country manager for Pfizer Singapore, shares her journey with the company from Brazil to New York,…

Turkey / In Conversation with DEVA CEO Philipp Haas

As one of the leading pharma companies in Turkey, DEVA is pioneering a new approach to generics in the country.…

Marco Lee – Vice-President & General Manager, APAC, Avanos Medical

Marco Lee, APAC head for medical device firm Avanos explains how the company’s products are catered to…

Tashia Lentz – Managing Director, Biogen Denmark

Tashia Lentz of Biogen outlines what she sees as an increasingly tough market access environment for new treatments…

Bee Lim – Director, Healthcare Strategy & Marketing, UPS Asia Pacific

UPS APAC’s Bee Lim describes how the logistics giant responded to the unprecedented challenges thrown up by…

The Long Read / Switzerland: Staying the Course

This article forms part of Healthcare & Life Sciences Review: Switzerland February 2021, a comprehensive…

Cindy Engelbart – Director Life Science APAC, Agility

Cindy Engelbart, director of mid-sized logistics player Agility’s life science operations in APAC, highlights…

Australia / Opportunities for the Life Science Industry post-COVID

Regular PharmaBoardroom contributor Brendan Shaw outlines how his home country of Australia has so far successfully…

APAC Biotech / IQVIA's Senthil Sockalingam on Emergent Regional Trends

IQVIA Biotech JAPAC’s Dr Senthil Sockalingam outlines the evolving needs of the flood of early-stage drug…

CEE / EU’s Beating Cancer Plan: Making it Our Own

Jasper Kunow, MSD’s managing director for Central Eastern Europe, outlines the threat that cancer still poses to…

Charles Stacey – President & CEO, Cerecin

Cerecin’s Charles Stacey outlines the company’s progress in expanding its lead asset into migraine and…

Dun Yang – President & CEO, Anticancer Bioscience

Anticancer Bioscience is an exciting international precision oncology company, applying synthetic lethal approaches…

APAC / How Precision Medicine is Transforming the Oncology Landscape

Asia-Pacific, as home to 50 percent of the world’s new cancer cases each year and with deaths caused by cancer…

Brian O’Callaghan – CEO, ObsEva

Biotech veteran Brian O’Callaghan introduces ObsEva – a Swiss-based firm focused on women’s health –, his…

China / Fosun-Kite Yescarta Approval Signals Beginning of CAR-T Era

A historic approval for Fosun-Kite’s CAR-T therapy Yescarta in China looks set to pave the way for further…

Clarence Ngui – Regional VP, Medical Education, Asia Pacific, Zimmer…

Clarence Ngui describes how global orthopaedic product giant Zimmer Biomet has pivoted in APAC in response to the…

Antonella Santuccione Chadha – CEO pro-bono, Women’s Brain Project…

Antonella Santuccione Chadha*, Head of Stakeholder Engagement for Alzheimer’s disease at Biogen and co-founder…

Abhay Bangi – Partner, Life Sciences & Healthcare Lead ASEAN, EY

EY’s Abhay Bangi highlights the key trends across the ASEAN life sciences space, how the COVID-19 pandemic has…

Demet Russ – Managing Director, Janssen Turkey

Janssen’s Managing Director for Turkey, Demet Russ, discusses her return to the country after 25 years abroad,…

Hong Kong / HKEX Biotech IPOs in the First Half of 2021

Three years after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) introduced reforms to allow and support the listing of…

Tore von Würden – Country Director Denmark & Iceland, Amgen

Tore von Würden talks through Amgen Denmark’s focus areas of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, haematology,…

Samir Khalil – Executive Director, PhRMA Middle East & Africa

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents many of the world’s leading…

Singapore / Building a Globally Competitive Innovation Ecosystem

Singapore recently outlined its latest Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025 plan, with plans to invest…

René P Buholzer – CEO, Interpharma, Switzerland

Interpharma’s Dr René P. Buholzer highlights the key lessons that Switzerland’s innovative pharmaceutical…

China / A New Era of Reform Transforming Regulatory Professionals

Writing in the June edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Harbour BioMed’s Fang Zhou, in conversation…

Japan / Enhancing Patient Engagement in Clinical Trials

Writing in the July issue of DIA’s Global Forum magazine Pfizer R&D Japan’s Atsushi Kitamura examines how…

Europe / Can The Beating Cancer Plan Make it an Innovation Leader?

The EFPIA’s Nathalie Moll outlines the significance of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to cancer patients in…

Saudi Arabia / Three Key Industry Trends to Watch

Looking to diversify its economy while simultaneously improving its healthcare system, Saudi Arabia has been…

South Africa / Ramaphosa Slams Big Pharma; Aspen Gets $700M for Vaccine Know-How; Adcock Ingram Takes Big COVID Profit Hit

The latest from South African pharma, including President Ramaphosa’s blunt criticism of Big Pharma, Aspen’s…

Michael Sidler – Co-Founding Partner, Redalpine Venture Partners,…

Redalpine Venture Partners’ Dr Michael Sidler highlights some of the key trends in the European biotech VC…

Turkey / A Moment of Reckoning on Diabetes?

As COVID-19 began spreading through the world, the race to understand the disease by scientists and doctors took…

Vinod Narayanan – Country President, AstraZeneca Singapore

AstraZeneca (AZ)’s country president for Singapore, Vinod Narayanan, outlines the challenges of taking the reins…

Japan / Life Science VC Funding: Signs of Growth & Untapped Opportunities

Toshio Fujimoto, MD, MBA, the General Manager of Shonan Health Innovation Park examines why Japan – despite being…

Patients / Inserting the Patient Voice: Ethical Challenges in the Use of Healthcare Data

Patient advocate and regular PharmaBoardroom contributor Monica Weldon examines how healthcare’s data revolution…

Canada / Concrete Steps Toward National Pharmacare

Writing in the September edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Dr Judith Glennie examines the specific…

Trad Alkhelaiwi – Country Director, Amgen Saudi Limited

Trad Alkhelaiwi, country director for Amgen in Saudi Arabia, discusses the intricacies of the Saudi healthcare…

Fabian Gerber – Senior Relationship Manager Primary Markets, SIX Swiss…

Fabian Gerber of SIX Swiss Exchange, Switzerland’s principal stock exchange, outlines the importance of life…

UK / Fastest Growing Private Pharmacos; GSK Shake-Up; Brexit Uncertainties; COVID-19 Reinfection Trial

The latest UK pharma news, including how new investment in GSK stands to reshape the country’s iconic pharma…

Uğur Bingöl – General Manager Turkey, Middle East and Africa, Menarini

Menarini’s general manager for Turkey, the Middle East and Africa Uğur Bingöl discusses the Italian company’s…

Singapore / Finding the Right Pharma Talent Post-COVID

Singapore – despite its modest USD 1.22 billion domestic market – has long been one of Asia’s leading…

Mexico / Novartis Gets “Aggressive”; Country President Foresees Outcome-Based Contracts

During a year where the Mexican economy shrank 8.5 percent, Novartis Mexico experienced a modest one percent growth…

Global / Five Ways That AI Can Transform Pharma Market Access

Merck VP for Global Market Access & Pricing Strategic Planning Marco Rauland outlines how AI has already begun…

Europe / Top 5 Pharma R&D Spenders

The Top Five countries in Europe ranked by amount spent on pharma R&D. While some of the continent’s largest…

Stefan Berg – General Manager, Pharmaplan AG Switzerland

Stefan Berg, general manager of Pharmaplan, one of the leading pharma engineering partners in Europe, outlines the…

Nicolas Dumoulin – General Manager & Head of Human Pharma, Boehringer…

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Nicolas Dumoulin outlines Denmark’s relevance to the German family-owned company,…

Global / Sanofi Genzyme EVP Bill Sibold Reflects on 30 Years of Rare Disease CSR Program

Bill Sibold, Executive Vice President and Head of Sanofi Genzyme, highlights the achievements of the company’s…

Ashraf Daoud – General Manager, AbbVie Saudi Arabia

Ashraf Daoud, General Manager for AbbVie in Saudi Arabia, highlights how the affiliate has harnessed Allergan’s…

Global / 3 Pfizer Country Managers on COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout & Learnings

The global push to vaccinate populations against COVID-19 has played out differently in different geographies, with…

Moderna / Bullish Bancel “Not Losing Sleep” over COVID-19 Vaccine IP Waiver, Looking to mRNA’s Future in Rare Diseases & Oncology

The day the Biden administration announced its support for the waiver of IP rights for COVID-19 vaccines,…

MEA / Georg Schroeckenfuchs of Novartis: ‘Shooting for the Moon’ in Saudi

33-year pharma industry veteran Georg Schroeckenfuchs currently heads up the vast Middle East & Africa (MEA)…

Daniel Fung – CEO, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore

Singapore’s Institute of Mental Health offers a comprehensive range of psychiatric, rehabilitative, and…

Hong Kong / HKEX’s Aim to Become World’s #1 Biotech Listing Hub & Challenges for New CEO

With three years having passed since the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX)’s decision to allow pre-revenue biotechs…

Marine Queniart-Stojanovic – GM General Medicines Thailand, Malaysia…

Industry veteran Marine Queniart-Stojanovic outlines the significance of the Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore country…

APAC Oncology / Professor Ashok Venkitaraman Talks New Frontiers in the War on Cancer

Professor Ashok Venkitaraman introduces his work in Singapore, coordinating and catalysing research on the causes…

Takeda / Pivoting to Growth Amid Renewed Focus on “Core Assets”

“This marks a significant moment in Takeda’s history and is an exciting step forward as we accelerate our…

Fayad Al Dandashi – CEO, Tamer HealthCare

Dr Fayad Al Dandashi, CEO of Tamer HealthCare, a leading Saudi healthcare company, discusses how the group aims to…

Ingrid Drechsel – Pharma Cluster Division Head, Bayer Turkey & Iran

Ingrid Drechsel, head of Bayer’s pharma operations in Turkey and Iran, discusses the complexity of managing two…

Georg Schroeckenfuchs – President & Cluster Head MEA, Novartis

Georg Schroeckenfuchs, Novartis’ president and head of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) cluster, explains how the…

Paediatric Oncology / Dr Sam Volchenboum on Data's Crucial Role in Research & Treatment

Dr Sam Volchenboum outlines the progress that has been made in the paediatric oncology field in recent years and…

APAC / Decentralised Clinical Trials Here to Stay

Writing in the July issue of DIA’s Global Forum magazine Serene Ong and Gaurang Majmudar of clinical trial…

Burak Cem – VP & General Manager, Novo Nordisk Turkey

Dr Burak Cem, Novo Nordisk Vice President and General Manager for Turkey, outlines the company’s big bet on…

China / PhIRDA’s Song Ruilin on Strengthening Drug Supervision Capacity & Promoting Pharma Innovation

Song Ruilin, chairman of the China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Development Association (PhIRDA), picks…

Switzerland / Ichnos CEO on Glenmark Legacy, Biotech Transformation & CAR-T Complementarity

After an illustrious career in oncology R&D, contributing greatly to the development of cutting-edge cancer…

Saudi Arabia / Significant Steps Towards Clinical Trial Hub Status

Clinical trials provide a pathway to innovation for clinicians and patients in countries like Saudi Arabia and form…

Eric ten Kate – Vice President, Global Life Science, Agility

Eric ten Kate, VP for Global Life Science at logistics and distribution firm Agility, highlights how the company…

The Long Read / Dominican Republic: A Hidden Manufacturing Gem

The rise of the Dominican Republic as a regional medtech manufacturing hub might have come as a surprise to many,…

APAC / Diagnostics in the Post-COVID Era

COVID-19 has pushed diagnostics to the forefront of healthcare conversations across the world. Here, three leading…

Europe / New EFPIA President Hubertus von Baumbach on Building Back Better from COVID & a Healthier European Future

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Hubertus von Baumbach, the newly appointed president of the European Federation of…

Flemming Sonne – CEO, Amgros, Denmark

Flemming Sonne of Denmark’s public hospital medicine procurement body Amgros outlines the scope and mission of…

Turkey / A Pharma Talent Hotbed

Drawing on over a dozen interviews with C-level pharmaceutical industry executives in Turkey, PharmaBoardroom has…

Mervyn Lim – Vice President, ResMed Asia

Mervyn Lim, Vice President, ResMed Asia, shares the company’s journey through COVID-19 in the region, how the…

Christiane von der Eltz – Country Speaker, Merck Switzerland

Merck Switzerland’s Christiane von der Eltz highlights the German firm’s recent big investments in Switzerland…

Şeyda Atadan Memiş – General Manager, Takeda Turkey

Takeda’s general manager for Turkey, Şeyda Atadan Memiş, reflects on the Japanese giant’s ambitions in Turkey…

Denmark / 5 Pharma Country Managers Talk Market Access

Long established as a premier early launch country for innovative medicines within Europe, the Danish market access…

Andrea Emilio Rizzoli – Director, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial…

Andrea Emilio Rizzoli of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, among the top 10 in the world in…

USA / U-Turn as Biden Pledges Support for Waiver on COVID-19 Vaccine IP

In a shock move, Joe Biden’s administration looks set to support a waiver on intellectual property (IP)…

Shiva Kannan – Vice President, Commercial Chief Information Officer, GE…

Shiva Kannan, VP and Chief Information Officer for GE Healthcare in over 120 countries, discusses the company’s…

Asli Özelli – Executive Director, AmCham Turkey

AmCham Turkey’s executive director, Asli Özelli, examines the impact of US companies on the Turkish economy with…

Hatice Öncel – CEO, Ilko Pharmaceuticals

Ilko Pharmaceuticals is a family-owned Turkish generics and biosimilars company. General Manager Hatice Öncel…

João de Bragança & Nicole Scobie, Childhood Cancer International

Cancer is one of the most frightening words in any language but is especially heart-wrenching when it comes to…

China / First CAR-T Approval; AZ & Bayer Take VBP Hit; Lonza Boosts Manufacturing Capacity

The latest news from Chinese pharma, including a historic first approval for Fosun Kite’s CAR-T therapy Yescarta;…

China / Boehringer Ingelheim's Stroke Rehab Centre Success & Continuing China Push

In March 2018, German pharma player Boehringer Ingelheim (BI)‘s Consanas Rehabilitation and the Shanghai…

Julie Enevold Brooker – Country Director, Janssen Denmark

Julie Enevold Brooker discusses what she sees as Janssen’s responsibility to help improve the Danish healthcare…

Global / Enough COVID Vaccines for World Population Says IFPMA: Calls for End to Vaccine Stockpiling & IP Waiver Requests

Pharma industry leaders have called for rich nations to stop stockpiling excess COVID-19 vaccine doses and stated…

Colombia / $25 million US Cannabis Deal; COVID-Related Consumer Health Boom; Bayer Prioritises Innovation

The latest news from the Colombian pharma market, including a new (legal) US cannabis deal; Bayer’s updated…

Hisham Bin Saad Al-Jadhey – CEO, Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA)

Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom, Prof. Hisham Bin Saad Al-Jadhey, CEO of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority…

China / Fosun Sales up 20%; MNC Price Manoeuvres Lead to Growth; Bayer Sees ‘Golden Age’ Ahead

The latest news from Chinese pharma, including Fosun Pharma’s 2021 interim results; how AstraZeneca, Bayer, Eli…

USA / Drug Innovations Are Delivering for Patients; We Need Innovation In How They’re Paid For

John M. O’Brien, recently appointed president and CEO of the US National Pharmaceutical Council, calls for…

Ismail Yormaz – VP & Regional Director South-East, Recordati

Ismail Yormaz, Recordati’s VP and regional director for south-east, highlights how the Milan-based company has…

China / EpimAb Looks to 2022 IPO & Global Leadership in Bispecific Antibodies

Hot on the heels of a USD 120 million fundraising round, Shanghai-based EpimAb Biotherapeutics is now looking…

Jakob Skaarup Nielsen – CEO, Healthcare DENMARK

Healthcare DENMARK is a non-profit organization and public-private partnership representing Danish healthcare…

Switzerland / Upcoming Cost Containment Packages: Industry Key Concerns

While once considered the land of milk and honey within Europe in terms of market access and reimbursement for…

Annie Tan – General Manager, Singapore, Thailand & Malaysia, BMS

Annie Tan highlights the strategy she laid out to navigate the BMS Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia affiliates…

Aducanumab Approval / Opening the Floodgates for a New Era of Alzheimer’s Treatment?

With the US FDA’s controversial recent decision to approve Biogen and Eisai’s aducanumab – the first approval…

Vincent Forster – CEO, Versantis

Dr Vincent Forster of Versantis, a Swiss biotech aiming to develop a new generation of liver disease therapeutics…

Switzerland / Swissmedic: Taking Its Own Path

Regarded as one of the world’s leading regulatory bodies, Swissmedic stands alongside its equivalents in Europe,…

John Baby – Co-Founder, Investor, Director, WO:EX

John Baby of home rehabilitation device start-up WO:EX outlines how his firm’s products differ from others on the…

Ching Kiat LIM – Managing Director, Airhub Development, Changi Airport…

Changi Airport Group’s Ching Kiat LIM reflects on a challenging 2020 for the airline industry, Changi’s…

APAC / 5 Management Tips from Life Science Leaders

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is home to around 1.44 billion people, over 60 percent of the world’s population,…

ASEAN / Regulatory Cooperation & Joint Assessments

Writing in the September edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Rosilawati Ahmad of Malaysia’s National…

Beh Kian Teik – Deputy CEO, National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore

Beh Kian Teik of Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF) outlines the importance of the life sciences…

Alaa Gamal – Senior Executive & Regional Pharma Expert, MENA

When it comes to knowledge of the Middle East and Africa region’s pharmaceutical industry, few executives have…

Catherine Williams – Managing Director, MSD Denmark & Iceland

MSD’s Catherine Williams, a recent arrival in Copenhagen, gives her first impressions of the Danish…

Rubens Hannun – President, Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Saudi…

Rubens Hannun, president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, discusses the commercial relationship between…

MENA / Egypt Opens 'Pharma City'; Koçak’s COVID Vaccine Enters Phase I; Abu Dhabi Strengthens Hub Status

The latest Middle East and North Africa (MENA) pharma, including Egypt’s opening of the largest “pharmaceutical…

Haitham Habashi – General Manager, Merck KSA

Haitham Habashi, general manager for Merck Saudi Arabia, outlines his affiliate’s approach to the big reforms…

Brazil / EMS Sales Soar; Irregularities in Indian Vaccine Deal; Personalised Medicine Challenges

The latest news from Brazilian pharma, including an investigation into the country’s deal with Indian lab Bharat…

Kathy Pritchard-Jones – President, International Society of Paediatric…

Kathy Pritchard-Jones, Professor of Paediatric Oncology at University College London (UCL) and President of the…

Aileen Lai – CEO & Founder, HealthBeats

Innovation is at the heart of healthcare transformation and the doors for a much-needed shift from provider- to…

Latvia / Striving to Catch Up to its Neighbours on Innovation Access

Dr Valters Bolevics, director general of the Association of International Research-based Pharmaceuticals…

Alex Pombo – Co-Founder & CEO, Nerum Pharmaceuticals

Nerum Pharmaceuticals, a Switzerland-based start-up, is supplying high-grade cannabis products to nine countries…

M&A / Jazz’s $7.2 Billion GW Pharma Deal: A Major Boost for Cannabinoid Research

The first day of March 2013 also marked a first for GW Pharmaceuticals. On that day, the British biopharmaceutical…

Australia / Growing Clinical Trials Even in Pandemic’s Wake

In an exclusive new podcast, DIA Global Forum Australia/New Zealand Regional Editor Richard Day (University of…

Hamdi Akan – Head of the Executive Board, Clinical Research Association,…

Dr Hamdi Akan, head of Turkey’s Clinical Research Association, dives into the country’s opportunities and…

Switzerland / What Novartis & Roche's Domestic Market Means to Them

The Novartis and Roche names are synonymous with Swiss pharmaceutical innovation. But for these two Basel-based…

Ireland / Abbott Splashes the Cash on New R&D Investment; Bausch & Lomb Ramps Up Manufacturing Footprint; Looming Pricing Crisis

The latest news from Irish pharma, including a big new R&D investment for Abbott; contact lens giant Bausch…

Singapore / Ng Huck Hui, Biomedical Research Council, A*STAR

Professor Ng Huck Hui of A*Star’s Biomedical Research Council outlines the evolution of Singapore’s…

Denmark / A Life Sciences Force to Be Reckoned With

On April 16, the Danish government unveiled, to great anticipation and fanfare, a brand-new National Life Science…

Ahmed Alaskar – Executive Director, KAIMRC, Saudi Arabia

Dr Ahmed Alaskar is executive director of the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC);…

MEA / The Skills That Regional Pharma Leaders Need

Mohamed Nasser, Amgen’s general manager for the vast Middle East & Africa (MEA) region, leverages his…

Michael Hübner – New Venture Lead, Johnson & Johnson Innovation…

Johnson & Johnson Innovation focuses on accelerating all stages of innovation worldwide, forming collaborations…

Katharina Gasser – Managing Director, Biogen Switzerland

Biogen Switzerland’s Dr med Katharina Gasser outlines how her affiliate navigated the COVID-19 pandemic from an…

India / Global Implications of COVID Crisis; April Market Rebound; Roche/Regeneron Approval; Lilly baricitinib Partnerships

The latest from Indian pharma, including the year-to-year 51.5 percent growth of the pharma market in April,…