APAC / Novartis APAC Oncology Head & Singapore Country President Kevin Zou
Kevin Zou highlights Novartis Oncology’s footprint and priorities in the diverse Asia-Pacific region, the…
Kevin Zou highlights Novartis Oncology’s footprint and priorities in the diverse Asia-Pacific region, the…
Merck Healthcare’s newly appointed Global Head of Business innovation, Renée C. Amundsen, highlights the…
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On 25 November 2020, the European Commission adopted a Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe with the stated aim of…
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After a year of growth and acquisitions, 125-year-old German generics manufacturer STADA is showing a willingness…
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Alejandro Mora, Ferrer’s country manager for Central America & Caribbean, discusses the complexity of the…
Dr Choong May Ling, Mimi, CEO of Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA), one of the leading regulatory…
Norway has long held a strong international position in neuroscience and is home to Professors May-Britt and Edvard…
Scientists have come together in an unparalleled worldwide collaboration and sharing of data to advance a COVID-19…
As part of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) is responsible for…
Japanese medtech player Terumo’s APAC lead Probir Das outlines the company’s 100-year commitment to innovation,…
Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson ignited a heated debate around vaccine nationalism earlier this year when he suggested that…
Genald Senior, general manager for Leterago, the leading pharma distributor in the Dominican Republic, discusses…
With a series of reorganization initiatives, new leaders at the helm and exciting acquisitions, Novartis Oncology…
Writing in the February edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Thomas Kühler of Sanofi R&D looks at the…
Dr Philipp Diesinger and Dr Gabriell Máté outline why a data-driven approach can help optimise patient copay…
After a transformative 2020, Shawview Consulting’s Brendan Shaw looks into his crystal ball and makes five…
Leonora Lim, DHL’s Asia-Pacific VP for Life Sciences and Healthcare, Customer Solutions & Innovation, dives…
Christian Probst gives an overview of GSK Norway’s broad portfolio, market access hurdles, and the importance of…
Genomic medicine expert Professor Thomas D. Szucs explains what ignited his interest in the field and how payers…
Prof Dr Jürg Utzinger of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) outlines the organisation’s…
When the European Medicines Agency (EMA) relocated from London to Amsterdam after the UK announced its decision to…
Thomas Bohn outlines how the life sciences industry in Western Switzerland has continued to perform well despite…
Professor Susan M. Gasser, now director and group leader emeritus of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for…
The latest from Mexico’s fight against COVID-19, including news of vaccine tourism into the US, how China’s…
In March 2018, German pharma player Boehringer Ingelheim (BI)‘s Consanas Rehabilitation and the Shanghai…
Thomas Cueni of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) highlights…
Dennis Hens, the Dutch CEO of Norwegian neuro-opthalmology device player Bulbitech, outlines the company’s…
The latest China pharma news, including the upcoming first domestic approval for a foreign COVID-19 vaccine in…
Changi Airport Group’s Ching Kiat LIM reflects on a challenging 2020 for the airline industry, Changi’s…
The latest news from Russian pharma and healthcare including a big funding injection for primary care up to 2025,…
Six of the top ten companies in the Brazilian pharma market are domestic.* Read on for an introduction to some of…
Novo Nordisk Singapore’s Praful Chakkarwar explains how he leverages his experience in a range of geographies…
Roche Diagnostics Norway’s Daniel Malarek discusses the resurgence of diagnostics in the wake of the COVID-19…
2020 was a challenging year globally, but one in which the importance of the healthcare and life sciences sector…
With Rare Disease Day falling on 28 February, PharmaBoardroom dedicates this month to exploring the global rare…
Equality has long been a deeply held ideal in Norway, where the concept of allemannsretten – the legal right to…
A roundup of some of the most important recent news from German pharma, including state honours for the founders of…
Dr Valters Bolevics, director general of the Association of International Research-based Pharmaceuticals…
2020 has been eventful – perhaps the understatement of the year – but despite the novel coronavirus being…
Merck VP for Global Market Access & Pricing Strategic Planning Marco Rauland examines the trend of…
Rare disease patient advocate Monica Weldon outlines some of the ethical conundrums around embryonic gene editing.…
PharmaBoardroom had the pleasure of interviewing HitGen chairman & CEO Dr Jin LI in July regarding the…
Joe Lewis outlines the key concerns of Deloitte’s pharma clients around manufacturing and supply chain operations…
In a recent conversation with PharmaBoardroom, Prof. Hisham Bin Saad Al-Jadhey, CEO of the Saudi Food and Drug…
While great strides in gender diversity has been made within healthcare boardrooms and leadership teams globally,…
The latest news from Middle East & North African pharma, including Pfizer’s transformation of its Saudi…
Following on from our profile on five of the most promising clinical-stage biotech companies developing orphan…
While 2020 may have seemed like the year the world stood still for many, the pharma industry went into overdrive,…
Japanese pharma companies are already far lower-profile than their occidental counterparts but an even lesser-known…
The latest from French pharma where Sanofi has inked a deal to produce 125 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19…
Dr Chris Martin, CEO and co-founder of Swiss-headquartered antibody-drug conjugate cancer company, ADC…
Eric Bouteiller examines the most recent update to China’s National Reimbursement Drug List, the positive impact…
A rundown of five things to know about the USD 8.2 billion Saudi pharma market, including the impact of ‘Vision…
On 25 November, the European Commission adopted a new strategy meant to, among others, allow Europe to cover its…
Novartis Oncology’s Emanuele Ostuni (lead author) and Karin Blumer draw on their experience commercialising CAR-T…
Bandar Reda outlines the evolution of the trading relationship between the UK and the Arab world, the role of the…
Lorenzo Ambrosini of the Agire Foundation introduces the major new innovation projects underway in the…
The latest news from pharma and healthcare in Latin America, including funding and logistics challenges in national…
In his latest piece on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) drug Aducanumab’s winding journey to market, Dr Neil Cashman…
The latest pharma news from the Asia-Pacific region, including upcoming IPOs for Prestige Biopharma and HH&L…
The first day of March 2013 also marked a first for GW Pharmaceuticals. On that day, the British biopharmaceutical…
A roundup of the latest stories from French pharma, including the progress of Sanofi’s COVID-19 vaccine, how…
hystrix medical is an online contracting marketplace for medical devices and replenishing/repeat purchase products…
Janssen Norway’s Mario Klesse shares his first impressions of the Norwegian pharma market, his strategic…
Writing in the February edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Xu Wang of Novo Nordisk Pharma China and Xiaoxi…
Following a recent capital injection of USD 67 million, Chinese biotech EdiGene is set to advance its pipeline in…
The top 10 most-read interviews on PharmaBoardroom in 2020 represents the broad geographic scope we have had in the…
In an exclusive interview, Jean-Paul Clozel explains Idorsia’s unique value proposition as a biotech focused…
One of the largest domestic pharma companies in China (ranking number one from 2014 to 2019), Yangtze River…
Writing in the April edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Maria Cristina Mota Pina of Abbvie on behalf of…
Dr Johan Van Hoof, global therapeutic area head of vaccines for Janssen, shares his extensive career experience in…
A trained physician with several years of practice under her belt, Katharina Gasser then moved into clinical…
RemeGen, a low-profile Chinese biotech company based in Yantai city in the coastal Shandong province, around nine…
COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of secure regional pharma supply chains across the globe, not least in…
A roundup of the latest from Chinese pharma, including Green Valley’s upcoming US trial for an…
South African firm Aspen has inked a deal with Johnson & Johnson for the technical transfer and proposed…
The latest UK pharma news, including how new investment in GSK stands to reshape the country’s iconic pharma…
The SGC’s Dr Tim Philippi introduces the sizeable Singaporean-German trading relationship and the importance…
Vaccines have been touted – and rightly so – as the most cost-effective health intervention after access to…
David H. Crean, managing director for Objective Capital Partners, provides insights on US innovation and long term…
Clint Sharples, CEO of Heritage Cannabis, gives a potted history of the medical cannabis industry in Canada, its…
Dr Maria T. Millan, president and CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), shares the…
Belgian champion UCB’s global manufacturing head, Jacques Marbehant, talks candidly about managing a broad…
From almost being de-listed by the NASDAQ stock index in 2018 due to poor financial performance, US vaccine firm…
Eric ten Kate, VP for Global Life Science at logistics and distribution firm Agility, highlights how the company…
Following on from our list of the overall top 10 companies in the Saudi Arabian pharma market, here PharmaBoardroom…
Ipsen CEO David Loew took aim at the lip service often paid to the notion of ‘patient-centricity’ in pharma in…
Brent Ragans of Ferring Pharmaceuticals US discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the company’s…
As the most important pharma hub in its region, and one of the most important globally, many companies look to…
AbbVie Switzerland’s Jon Helsdingen outlines how he has led the Swiss affiliate through a full scale office…
Market access and pricing expert Barbara Jaszewski outlines the issues inherent in the USA importing drugs from…
Dipharma SA is a Swiss specialty pharmaceutical company, developing improved generics medicines for rare metabolic…
The latest from Italian pharma, including the foreign minister’s plea for delivering on COVID-19 vaccine…
Stephen J. Ubl, president and CEO of PhRMA, outlines the unprecedented collaboration and speed with which the…
Alessandro Riva, MD joined biotech Ichnos Sciences as its founding CEO in 2019, leaving behind a storied career in…
The ascent of cell and gene therapies (CGT) is commonly regarded as one of the momentous turning points in the…
On 15 November 2020, the world’s largest trade deal in terms of GDP – the Regional Comprehensive Economic…
David H. Crean summarizes the recent 39th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference 2021 that was held in a virtual…
Hours after President Biden was inaugurated on Tuesday 19th January 2021, Dr Janet Woodcock was named as acting…
In a wide-ranging interview CEO Bertrand Ducrey introduces Debiopharm’s unique business focus on drug…
The latest from Italian pharma, including the government’s decision to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for all…
The EFPIA’s Nathalie Moll outlines the significance of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to cancer patients in…
The CEO & President of CDMO CordenPharma, Dr Michael Quirmbach, delves into the contract manufacturing…
Dr Haijun Dong, recently appointed CEO of BioDuro-Sundia, shares his priorities for the newly merged entity, one of…
The latest from Spanish pharma, including the wide swathe of COVID-19 syringes, vaccines, masks, and tests being…
PharmaBoardroom highlights three of the most enterprising and dynamic pharma affiliate country managers working in…
With Rare Disease Day coming up on February 28th, one of the leading organizations dedicated to serving affected…
PhRMA’s Stephen J. Ubl outlines two ways in which the new US presidency can help lower healthcare costs and why…
The Association of Representatives, Agents and Pharmaceutical Producers (ARAPF), represents 65 companies in the…
With upcoming EU regulation poised to have a massive impact on ethical regulations around AI in Europe, Bayer Head…
CCO Anil Okay introduces how Alvotech’s focus on biosimilars, comprehensive platform, differentiated portfolio…
During the FT Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference earlier this week, four Big Pharma and biotech…
The latest news from Indian pharma, including a 200 percent boost for the country’s pharmaceutical industry in…
HiFiBiO Therapeutics cofounder, CEO and CSO Dr Liang Schweizer fits the profile of a Chinese biotech CEO to a T:…
The AAM’s Dan Leonard highlights the savings impact that generic and biosimilar have on US healthcare today and…
Andrea Emilio Rizzoli of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, among the top 10 in the world in…
Emerging cell and gene therapies herald immense clinical value for patients, society, and healthcare systems:…
The latest from Chinese pharma, including a drop in share prices for Chinese vaccine firms in the wake of…
Founded by Toyoji Naito in December 1941, in just under 80 years, Eisai has become a leading global biopharma…
While Switzerland has Europe’s second-highest proportion of women in the workforce, it trails global…
Nawal Roy of global digital health platform Holmusk which aims to establish data as a core utility to the treatment…
The journey of EUnetHTA began back in 2004, when the European Commission and Council of Minsters requested the…
On 7 October 2020, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A.…
During the FT Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference earlier this month, three industry leaders spoke…
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents many of the world’s leading…
In November 2020, after months of delay caused by COVID-19 disruptions and a US antitrust roadblock, Mylan and…
Dr Thomas D. Madden, CEO and founder of Acuitas Therapeutics, shares the story behind their involvement in Pfizer…
Dr Nicolas Fischer introduces Light Chain Bioscience, a Swiss biotech company focusing on the discovery and…
Takeda USA’s Ramona Sequeira outlines her expanded role as president of global portfolio commercialization, the…
Niklas Hedberg outlines the role of EUnetHTA as both a network and project built up of national HTAs in Europe, the…
While Big Pharma companies like Pfizer, Janssen and AstraZeneca, have grabbed the headlines over the past year for…
Dr Miro Venturi of Swiss injectable anaesthetics and analgesics specialist Sintetica outlines his career journey,…
Anders Blanck of Lif, the trade association for the research-based Swedish pharmaceutical industry, outlines the…
Nerum Pharmaceuticals, a Switzerland-based start-up, is supplying high-grade cannabis products to nine countries…
Professor Nicolaus Kröger, president of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT)…
This article forms part of Healthcare & Life Sciences Review: Switzerland February 2021, a comprehensive…
The latest COVID-19 vaccine news from the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region, including the fallout from…
Kevin Rufang Huang, president and founder of the Chinese Organization for Rare Disorders (CORD), outlines the…
Singapore – despite its modest USD 1.22 billion domestic market – has long been one of Asia’s leading…
The Top 15 pharmaceutical companies in the Central America and Caribbean (CENCA) market list is dominated by…
The latest from Chinese pharma, including domestic regulatory approval for Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine, how…
Toshio Fujimoto, MBA, MD of Japan’s Shonan Health Innovation Park highlights key takeaways from the BIOJapan 2020…
Writing in the March edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Judith Glennie examines the findings of Health…
Pharma industry insiders view vaccines as one of the most challenging products to manufacture, fundamentally due to…
Dan Schneider discusses the continuing Norwegian identity of Photocure, despite its increasingly global footprint,…
In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, Harjit Gill outlines the work of pan-Asia-Pacific medtech association…
In a recent conversation with PharmaBoardroom, Michael Sidler of Redalpine Venture Partners, a venture capital (VC)…
Although Switzerland is ahead of many of its competitors in Europe on levels of healthcare innovation, one…
After 15 years as director at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) (2004-2019) and even…
Brad Campbell, president and COO of US rare disease specialist Amicus, talks domestic and global product launches,…
Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom, Prof. Hisham Bin Saad Al-Jadhey, CEO of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority…
Andrew Frye of medtech giant Baxter outlines his management strategy for the diverse APAC region, how growth was…
The latest from Southeast Asian pharma, including soaring output in Singapore, tax breaks for research in…
In a wide-ranging interview, Henrik Asmussen outlines his priorities for Amgen’s important Swiss affiliate,…
Michael Altorfer, CEO of the Swiss Biotech Association, a membership organisation representing the interests of the…
Founded in 1950, EMS is one of the top two domestic pharma companies in Brazil. As a key player in the largest and…
A Tale of Two Americas The US stands as the biopharma innovation champion of the world, a global leader on nearly…
Novo Nordisk Switzerland’s Mads Stoustrup introduces the affiliate’s remarkable process on bringing innovative…
The latest from Chinese pharma, including a new deal between AstraZeneca and Junshi Biosciences; Innoforce and…
Pfizer Switzerland’s Sabine Bruckner discusses Switzerland’s historic and continuing importance to Pfizer,…
Four companies (GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi, and MSD) together occupy over 80 percent of the global market for vaccines.…
AbbVie Norway’s Kirsti Nyhus discusses access challenges in the Norwegian market for innovative drugs, the…
Sandoz Switzerland’s Jan Tangermann highlights the importance of the Swiss affiliate to the global group and how…
As the global pharmaceutical industry continues to grow, so have opportunities for service providers. Over the last…
The Brazilian pharma market outperformed the Latin American average in Q1 of 2020 with a growth of 8.2 percent in…
Dr Ann Aerts, head of the Novartis Foundation, highlights how the COVID-19 crisis has thrust artificial…
Dan Leonard, president and CEO of the Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) since August 2020, outlines his…
Giorgio Calderari, the chairman of Farma Industria Ticino, the association of chemical and pharmaceutical…
The global rush to secure access to COVID-19 vaccines has led to accusations that richer countries are hoarding…
CEO Ellen Cathrine Andersen introduces Norwegian firm Epiguard’s ‘Epishuttle’ technology for transporting…
John-Arne Røttingen, CEO of The Research Council of Norway shares his career journey from academia to industry,…
Antonella Santuccione Chadha*, Head of Stakeholder Engagement for Alzheimer’s disease at Biogen and co-founder…
Since China first announced its ground-breaking volume-based procurement (VBP) pilot program to reduce drug…
After five years with Takeda heading up the Japan-headquartered pharma company’s US business, following the…
Dr Liang Schweizer introduces immunotherapy-focused biotech HiFiBiO Therapeutics, the main advantages of the…
Siemens Healthineers Singapore’s Ai Li Siow outlines how her affiliate has pivoted in order to continue to…
The latest news from Russian pharma, including Biocad’s ramping up of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing,…
While cell and gene therapies are all the rage now, a little known fact is that the world’s first approved gene…
One of the more intriguing aspects about the new wave of cell and gene therapies (CGT) coming onstream is that they…
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) firm Photocure is probably Norway’s most significant recent international healthcare…
While perhaps not as lucrative or – prior to COVID-19 – as attention-grabbing – as other areas of the…
Following the recent news of Remegen’s massive USD 515 million IPO in November 2020, we bring you profiles of…
After an illustrious career in oncology R&D, contributing greatly to the development of cutting-edge cancer…
Zogenix’s Dr Stephen Farr shares his remarkable career journey from academia to industry, the company’s…
Redalpine Venture Partners’ Dr Michael Sidler highlights some of the key trends in the European biotech VC…
At USD 150 billion, Asia-Pacific is home to the world’s second largest medtech market and, with a CAGR of nine…
Bayer’s Dr Vincent Ruland highlights his career trajectory from medical doctor to pharma country manager; the…
Switzerland is a crucial country for MSD’s global network, employing over 1000 people in local, regional, and…
A roundup of some of the most important recent stories from Italian pharma, including an in-depth interview with…
Marcel Plattner, president of Swiss industry association vips discusses pricing, market access and innovation, as…
Certara’s Ulrich Neumann examines some of the major US market access trends of the past few years, including…
Alfasigma Switzerland’s Dr Tytus Litynski introduces the Italian firm’s diversified portfolio of both Rx drugs…
Charles Chen of Taiwanese firm Medigen Vaccines Biologics Corp (MVC) shares his career journey, the company’s…
The story of how British doctor Edward Jenner serendipitously discovered a way to inoculate people against smallpox…
Biotech veteran Brian O’Callaghan introduces ObsEva – a Swiss-based firm focused on women’s health –, his…
Many countries have struggled to adapt to the shift to remote working and digital communication brought about by…
Sissel Lønning Andresen explains how Pfizer Norway has been a pioneer of digital communication channels for years,…
During the FT Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference last week, GSK global vaccines president Roger…
ASLAN Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage immunology-focused biopharmaceutical company. CEO Dr Carl Firth reveals…
DHL’s Larry St Onge outlines how the logistics giant adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the unprecedented…
Dr Remo Gujer gives an overview of the BMS footprint in Switzerland and Austria, the ongoing integration of legacy…
Medtech industry veteran Sanjay Prabhakaran outlines the footprint and strategy of women’s health specialist…
Writing in the April edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Dhiraj Behl, Janine Jamieson, and Harikesh Kalonia…
With several COVID-19 vaccines gaining regulatory approval across the world in record time, a spotlight has been…
Biogen Switzerland’s Dr med Katharina Gasser outlines how her affiliate navigated the COVID-19 pandemic from an…
COVID-19 has drawn global attention to the sorry state of funding and R&D investment in vaccine development and…
When Abdi Ibrahim acquired a 28.5 percent stake in Swiss biotech OM Pharma in September 2020, it represented a…
Stefan Hendriks, Global Head of Novartis Oncology’s Cell & Gene division outlines the company’s progression…
Epidemiologist John-Arne Røttingen has had a long and distinguished career in both academia and industry,…
Dr Gideon Ho, co-founder and CEO of HistoIndex, shares the story of the company’s establishment in 2010, their…
Rare disease – defined in the US as a disease with a maximum patient population of 200,000 – is perhaps the…
Alvotech – the biosimilars arm of Icelandic-headquartered generics player Alvogen – is positioning itself for…
Bayer’s Michael Levy casts his eye over the implications of the advent of cell and gene therapies on…
Innosuisse CEO Annalise Eggimann presents the organisation’s renewed mandate as the main Swiss innovation…
AAM President Dan Leonard highlights the findings of the association’s most recent report and re-states the value…
Lance Little, managing director for Roche Diagnostics in Asia Pacific and board member of the Asia Pacific Medical…
Rubens Hannun, president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, discusses the commercial relationship between…
The latest LatAm pharma news, including COVID-19 vaccine rollouts in Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico as well as legal…
Last Wednesday, the lower chamber of the Mexican Congress approved a bill that would legalise recreational…
Mervyn Lim, Vice President, ResMed Asia, shares the company’s journey through COVID-19 in the region, how the…
Filip Standaert outlines the significance of the Nordic cluster to J&J’s medical device operations in Europe,…
MSD’s Ashish Pal describes how he led the Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei cluster through a challenging 2020; the…
Although the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent rush to develop diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines dominated…
Pius Zängerle of curafutura, one of the two largest Swiss health insurers’ associations, explains the unique…
Thomas A. Tóth von Kiskér, longstanding CEO of Tillotts Pharma AG, a Switzerland-based specialty pharma player…
Dr Thomas D. Madden, CEO and founder of Acuitas Therapeutics, shares the story behind their involvement in Pfizer…
Mera Pharma’s Khalid Saleh introduces the Swiss-headquartered but MENA-focused company, how it plans to expand…
Writing in the March edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, EMD Serono’s Ana Padua outlines the findings…
The EMA’s Head of Advanced Therapies Dr Ana Hidalgo-Simon outlines Europe’s evolving regulatory framework for…
Thomas F. Schmidt, country manager of Roche Pharma in its home market of Switzerland discusses adjusting to his…