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Honeybear Biosciences is emerging as a pioneering force in precision oncology, leveraging its proprietary CoNectar glycan conjugation platform to advance next-generation ADCs and ARCs. Guided by a globally experienced leadership…
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Europe stands at a critical moment as healthcare systems face growing pressure to accelerate patient access, adapt to more complex therapies, and remain competitive in a global innovation race increasingly…
CirCode Biomed is emerging at the forefront of a small but fast-evolving field seeking to turn circular RNA into a new class of medicines. From its roots in pioneering academic…
Scientific breakthroughs are redefining what is possible in cancer care, yet the true test lies in translating discovery into meaningful and lasting patient benefit. Michael Baumann reflects on how the…
Chris Posner, President of Esteve Pharmaceuticals LLC, the US affiliate of Spanish specialty player ESTEVE, speaks about the process of building its US affiliate from the ground up since joining…
As China’s biotech industry races into next-generation modalities, Epigenic Therapeutics is seeking to open a new frontier by regulating gene expression without cutting DNA. In conversation with Bob Zhang, the…
Professor Do-Youn Oh discusses advances in gastrointestinal oncology, reflecting on the practice-changing TOPAZ-1 trial, Korea’s strengths in clinical research, and the importance of biomarker-driven therapies. She shares her approach to…
Prof Dr med Hanns-Peter Knaebel has moved between the operating table, industry, and hospital leadership in his career a path that now shapes his approach to one of the more…
Dr David J. Rawlings is the division head of immunology at Seattle Children’s and director of the Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. An immunologist and…
Europe’s position as a global healthcare leader is being tested by intensifying competition from both the US and China. As CSL’s Dirk Hoheisel points out, this is not because Europe…
D&D Pharmatech is emerging as one of Korea’s most closely watched clinical-stage biotechnology companies, built on more than two decades of research into GLP-1 biology and peptide engineering. With programmes…
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…
Sally Epstein looks at why the world’s biggest AI companies are all pivoting towards biopharmaceuticals. Epstein, an entrepreneur in residence at Cambridge Innovation Capital, argues that drug discovery – if…
Collaboration across institutions is not optional – it is necessary. The pace and complexity of the challenges demand it. As CEO of TUM University Hospital Munich, Dr med Martin Siess…
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…
As precision medicine forces biopharma to rethink how it builds, runs, and scales laboratory and manufacturing infrastructure, the industry’s next competitive advantage will be found not in discovery, but in…
Tom Shea, Founder and CEO of Meitheal Pharmaceuticals, discusses his career across commercial and operational roles in generic injectables and the creation of Meitheal in 2017. He highlights the company’s…
The goal is not only to generate scientific breakthroughs, but to ensure that these breakthroughs reach patients faster and more reliably Professor Gerd Geisslinger serves as Chair of Clinical Pharmacology…
Drawing on a career spanning oncology drug discovery at AstraZeneca and biotech leadership as CEO of Enhanc3d Genomics, Hazel Jones is now Chief Strategy Officer at Laverock Therapeutics. We caught…
Contemporary Taiwan finds itself navigating unprecedented healthcare challenges, having transitioned into a super-aged society with unexpected speed, compounded by one of the lowest birth rates globally. In 2024, to secure…
Axolabs has spent more than two decades building expertise in a field that is only now beginning to reach greater clinical and commercial scale. Under CEO Susanne Leonhartsberger, the specialist…
Prof Dr Markus M. Lerch, Physician-in-Chief and CEO of Munich University Hospital, oversees more than 2,000 concurrent clinical trials and a EUR 2.2 billion campus rebuild now underway in Bavaria.…
Korea’s real strength right now is active, innovative discovery research, and that expertise, along with international networking, keeps improving Jungwon Woo, MedPacto CEO, discusses translating innovative cancer research into clinical…
Daniel Camardo is the President of Immedica Pharma US Inc. (Immedica), the US affiliate/subsidiary of Immedica Pharma AB, a Sweden-based rare disease company that entered the American market in 2024.…
The biosimilars market is constantly evolving, so our teams need the willingness to learn, adapt, and embrace new ways of working Germany is playing an increasingly important role in Biocon’s…
CAR T-cell therapies are entering a new phase of development in which the focus is increasingly shifting from scientific validation towards the practical realities of access, scalability, reimbursement, and delivery…
Yeul Hong Kim, R&D President of Yuhan, discusses the company’s transformation from a traditional Korean pharmaceutical business into an increasingly global innovator. He outlines Yuhan’s open innovation strategy, pipeline focus,…
Heidi Wang, recently retired CEO of OBI Pharma, transitioned from nearly three decades at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) to lead the Taiwanese biotech for close to three years, aiming to advance…
Dr Lasse Lehnert, General Manager of Chugai Pharma Germany and European Director for Customer Engagement and Digital Experience, discusses the unique Roche-Chugai strategic alliance, the challenges for continued delivery of…
Randy Pritchard, General Manager and Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations for North America at bioMérieux, a global leader in in vitro diagnostics, speaks about the outsized strategic weight of…
Dr Maisha Draves, Associate Executive Director of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG), speaks to the group’s approach to integrating the use of biosimilars across the care network. By focusing on…
Serdar Yüksel spent two decades as a nurse before 15 years in North Rhine-Westphalia’s state parliament, and now represents the SPD on the Bundestag’s Health Committee. He discusses the jump…
Innovators should hold CDMOs to a high bar, and CDMOs need to step up Syed T. Husain, Chairman & CEO of Made Scientific, outlines the organization’s differentiated strategy to disrupt…
Keren Haruvi, President of Sandoz North America, reflects on the company’s transformation following its spin-off from Novartis and outlines how Sandoz is positioning itself at the forefront of the evolving…
Chinese biotechs are now outpacing multinationals at getting drugs into pivotal trials — but MNCs still win the race to final approval. In this piece from the September 2026 edition…
Vera Zheng is Head of Greater China and Head of Asia Pacific Strategy at Parexel, one of the world’s leading clinical research organisations. With a career spanning medical marketing, brand…
Tomas Mihal, General Manager for Germany at STADA, discusses the company’s diversified three-pillar model across consumer healthcare, generics and specialty medicines, highlighting its strong German market position, agile culture and…
As cell and gene therapies move closer to broader clinical reality, questions around manufacturing, scalability, and regulatory flexibility are becoming just as important as the science itself. Denise Gavin and…
The European Union is in the midst of the biggest shake-up of its pharmaceutical rulebook in a generation, racing to secure supply chains, speed up drug development, and keep Europe…
Building stronger bridges between Korean biotech companies and global capital will be critical to unlocking the ecosystem’s full potential Chang Woo Lee, CEO of CUROGEN, discusses translating academic science into…
A 2025 collection of perspectives from over 30 biopharmaceutical industry stakeholders finds that while patient centricity has made real progress — moving from an afterthought to an expectation in the…
Germany’s future competitiveness begins with the policy decisions we make today Scientific breakthroughs alone are not enough to shape the future of healthcare. They must be matched by the right…
Jaw-Jou Kang, Professor at NYCU, former head of Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration and current chair of the Taiwan Society of Regulatory Affairs for Medicinal Products discusses the nation’s regulatory…
Dr Yuan-Hung Hsu, President of MegaPro Biomedical, discusses the Taiwanese company’s evolution into a late-stage nanomedicine company, with two platforms targeting precision medicine. He highlights MPB 1523, a heavy-metal-free MRI…
Genmab is moving into one of the most consequential chapters in its history, as decades of antibody innovation converge with an ambition to take greater ownership of the journey from…
Hong Kong – already Asia’s finance hub and an increasingly robust life science R&D destination – is placing huge bets on becoming the region’s prime location for developing, financing, and…
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…
Pamela Hoffman is the president and recently appointed CEO of Padagis, a US-based generic pharmaceutical company established following the divestiture of Perrigo’s generics business. With manufacturing operations in Minnesota and…
Our goal is to generate rigorous clinical data demonstrating that these therapies can deliver meaningful and lasting benefits for patients For decades, neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord…
We are actively evolving into a nation that discovers innovative drug candidates Korea’s clinical trial sector has spent the past two decades transforming itself from a fast follower into one…
Despite its modest market size, Taiwan is proving a popular investment destination for pharma and medtech multinationals. While the island’s semiconductor industry garners more headlines and revenues, life sciences is…
New legislation is putting Germany’s status as Europe’s most innovation-friendly pharma market under severe threat. Germany has long led Europe in terms of both the number of new medicines…
Ajay Mahipal of India-focused healthcare impact and venture capital investment platform HealthKois argues that India’s life-sciences ecosystem is approaching an inflection point. Having built its reputation on manufacturing scale, the…
Just over one year into the second Trump administration, the US healthcare and life science market is navigating a steady stream of series of unprecedented policy shifts. Long defined by…
The EU Health Technology Assessment Regulation was implemented in January 2025 to replace 27 fragmented national evaluations with a single Joint Clinical Assessment, run in parallel with EMA review. The…
We believe that flexibility, analytical drive, initiative, and a detailed, hands-on mindset are more important than industry experience Peter Gerckens, CEO at PharmaSGP combines a strong background in consulting, branding,…
Dr Toshiaki Nagafuji leads the Innovative Drug Development Business (IDDB) at Linical after a career spanning discovery and research at Chugai and clinical development, project management, and business development at…
Leadership in today’s pharmaceutical industry is no longer defined solely by the strength of a pipeline, but by the ability to anticipate change, execute consistently and adapt at scale. As…
Our objective is to navigate ongoing healthcare reforms successfully, serve as a primary growth engine for Viatris in Europe, and maximize our contribution to patient care Simon von Boeselager, Country…
Europe’s place in the global biotechnology race is entering a decisive phase. Scientific excellence and industrial depth remain powerful advantages, yet intensifying competition from the United States and China is…
The priority should be to ensure that reimbursement systems can support sustainable healthcare budgets, timely patient access and continued pharmaceutical innovation Delivering the first approved treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis…
Dr Long Sheng Fan, CEO, discusses Iridium Medical Technology’s development of a 4,000-pixel bionic retina. By leveraging Taiwan’s semiconductor expertise and AI convolution, the firm addresses retinal degeneration. Currently in…
Excalipoint is betting that the next chapter of T-cell engagers will be written in solid tumours, where the modality is beginning to challenge the boundaries of cancer immunotherapy. Co-Founder, Chairman…
As Europe rethinks how medicines are priced, regulated, and manufactured, the off-patent sector is moving to the centre of the policy debate. Adrian van den Hoven, Director General of Medicines…
Yoo Jong-man, CEO of Organoid Sciences discusses the company’s pioneering work in organoid-based regenerative medicine, drug evaluation, and precision medicine. He highlights its regulatory achievements, proprietary technology platforms, global expansion,…
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…
We have set out a clear strategy, but strategy only provides direction; ultimately, trust is built through execution Europe pioneered the biosimilars industry and remains its most advanced market, yet…
A shift is underway in how rare diseases are identified and managed across the Middle East and North Africa, as stronger diagnostic capabilities, evolving access frameworks, and growing local expertise…
Mathias Hevert, third-generation leader of Hevert-Arzneimittel, has guided the family-owned company as CEO for more than 20 years. Founded in 1956, Hevert specialises in naturopathic medicines, including homoeopathic combination remedies,…
Europe is rewriting the rules governing medicines, innovation, and industrial competitiveness, with consequences that reach far beyond regulation alone. Pricing pressure from the United States, slower market access, rising administrative…
Japan is resetting itself as a clinical trial destination. Costs have halved, local data requirements are being relaxed, and the country is actively courting the global biotechs that have long…
China has rapidly become the world’s leading country for clinical trial volume, alongside the stratospheric growth of its local biotech industry, which now accounts for almost a third of the…
Our next phase of evolution is moving from pure-play generics to something more complex across branded products, biosimilars, and NCEs Punit Patel, President and CEO, of Zydus Americas, speaks about…
The future of Europe’s pharmaceutical industry will be shaped as much by manufacturing and industrial policy as by scientific innovation. Theodore Tryfon outlines how ELPEN is investing to strengthen healthcare…
Thomas Madden is the CEO of Acuitas Therapeutics, the lipid nanoparticle delivery technology company whose platforms underpinned some of the most significant advances in mRNA medicine, such as the COVID-19…
I believe we can position Korea as a true global leader in biohealth innovation Lee Hyung Hoon, Vice Minister at Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare, outlines his vision for…
Andreas Schuil, Vice President & General Manager EMEA at Orchard Therapeutics, discusses the company’s gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy, a devastating ultra-rare paediatric disease. He highlights challenges in access, pricing…
The opportunity is not simply to replicate the US model, but to understand what works in each system and build on the strengths we already have in Europe After almost…
Hong Kong is repositioning itself within the global innovation landscape, moving beyond its total market-driven model to take an industry policy oriented market-driven approach. Through Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises…
We have evolved well beyond the traditional CRO model Global biopharma companies are looking at Japan through a different lens, seeking partners that can navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape…
We need to bring together expertise in medicine, bioengineering, production technology and artificial intelligence Germany has the scientific expertise and clinical infrastructure to lead in cell and gene therapy, yet…
Germany’s research-based pharmaceutical industry is approaching a defining period as mounting pressure to curb healthcare expenditure clashes with the country’s long-established ambition to remain a leading hub for innovation, scientific…
Belief BioMed’s Co-Founder and CEO, Dr Jane Zheng, sets out an ambition to move gene therapy beyond scientific promise and into a scalable, globally accessible treatment model. Built on an…
Establishing a genuine European investment promotion platform is crucial Achim Hartig, Director of Foreign Direct Investment at Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) and Chair of the OECD Network of Investment…
Susan Liao, General Manager of Everest Pharmaceutical Industrial Co., Ltd., represents the second generation of the family business founded in 1978. Trained in pharmacy with a PhD in clinical medicine,…
At its core, we need a reform of the welfare state. It’s indispensable, but it needs to be brought back to its core purpose: help for those who need it…
Thomas Seewoester, Vice President Site Operations and Site Head at Amgen Manufacturing Limited, LLC, has overseen Puerto Rico’s most significant manufacturing campus for three years, building on more than three…
As global pharmaceutical companies diversify their manufacturing networks and seek trusted development partners, Taiwan’s CDMO sector is moving into sharper international focus. Drawing on decades of experience building ScinoPharm into…
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…
Healthcare transformation across the GCC is entering a new phase, driven by major investments in precision medicine, genomics, and healthcare system modernisation, with countries such as Saudi Arabia and the…
Gerald Unden, General Manager DACH at Shionogi, believes that healthcare leadership begins with giving the patients of tomorrow a voice in the decisions made today. In this interview, he explains…
A biochemistry PhD, Bin Li started out in Merck’s research labs before transitioning to Wall Street, where he was one of the few figures with the scientific, financial, and linguistic…
There is a real sense of energy and ambition across the Korean biopharma industry Sungphil Kim, General Manager of Cytiva Korea, discusses his vision for strengthening Korea’s biopharma ecosystem through…
Across the Global South, hundreds of millions of people live without reliable access to basic healthcare. Too few doctors, too little data, and systems too fragile to scale. However, as…
We have spent the past decade building a strong foundation, investing in the market, expanding our capabilities, and assembling an exceptional team The US generics industry remains central to the…
Innovation cannot stop at the laboratory door. It must extend to how therapies are developed, approved, and reimbursed Brian Campbell, Vice President and General Manager of the US for Orchard…
Joshua Salsi, Head of North America, Biocon Biologics explains the company’s evolution into an integrated, global biosimilars company following the 2022 Viatris portfolio reacquisition. He highlights the company’s growing US…
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