GSK / Collaborator-in-Chief in the COVID-19 Vaccine Effort
GSK, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, has pursued a different strategy to that of its contemporaries…
EUROPE
News Roundup / Italy Pharma July 2020
Below we present recent news from Italy’s biopharma industry, including the recent acquisition of Stemline…
Merck KGaA / Big-Ticket Investments in Manufacturing Scale & Digital Innovation
Merck KGaA has moved to continuously expand its manufacturing capacity and capability in recent years with a number…
COVID-19 Vaccine / Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson Commits to "Bring a Solution to Everybody, Everywhere"
In a recent interview with Financial Times, Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson set out to clarify some recent comments that the…
Ipsen / New CEO as David Loew Makes Switch From Sanofi Pasteur
David Loew, formerly executive vice president of Sanofi Pasteur, Sanofi’s vaccines division, was appointed…
Company Spotlight / BMS Romania
With the 2019 acquisition of Celgene – one of the largest pharma acquisition in history – two of the sector’s…
Top Italian Pharma Companies
Italy’s pharma industry consistently ranks among the top 10 globally, with domestic companies making up a…
Belgium Pharma Market Snapshot
The Belgian retail market continues to grow in value, while decreasing slightly in volume, to reach a total of EUR…
Mid-Cap Strategies / LFB USA CEO Optimistic on Hemophilia Launches Amid COVID Crisis
French firm LFB is targeting the lucrative US market with its hemophilia products and recently received two FDA…
In Conversation
Geert Van Hoof – General Manager, Chiesi Belgium
Geert Van Hoof, founding general manager of Chiesi Belgium, shares the exciting milestones of the company’s first decade in Belgium, including their stunning year-on-year double-digit growth, their market leadership in respiratory as well as neonatology, and their growing presence in rare diseases, as well as the attractiveness of the Chiesi Culture to potential employees in Belgium. The Chiesi Culture…
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Focus on Belgium
GSK: Collaborator-in-Chief in the COVID-19 Vaccine Effort
GSK, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, has pursued a different…
Pharma Faces: Veronique Walsh, BMS Benelux
Veronique Walsh, general manager of Bristol Myers Squibb for Belgium, the…
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Focus on Romania
Company Spotlight: BMS Romania
With the 2019 acquisition of Celgene – one of the largest pharma acquisition…
Brain Drain: A Ticking Time Bomb for Romanian Healthcare
According to a 2015 United Nations International Migration Report, since Romania…
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Focus on France
LFB USA CEO Optimistic on Hemophilia Launches Amid COVID…
French firm LFB is targeting the lucrative US market with its hemophilia…
Sanofi Makes USD 679 Million Investment in French Vaccine…
French pharma giant Sanofi is pivoting its focus to invest more heavily in…
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Focus on Switzerland
Merck’s EUR 250 Million Investment in New Swiss Biotech…
German biopharma giant Merck is investing EUR 250 million in a new Swiss biotech…
Outsourced Manufacturing: A Swiss Specialty
Unknown to some, Switzerland meanwhile remains both influential and relevant in…
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CEE / Recent Big-Ticket Investments in Hungarian Pharma
Hungarian national champion Egis and French Big Pharma Sanofi have both made recent big-ticket investments in new…
Research / The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three scientists for their discovery of how cells…
Pharma Faces / Veronique Walsh, BMS Benelux
Veronique Walsh, general manager of Bristol Myers Squibb for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg (Benelux),…
Biotech Funding / 2019 A Boom Year for UK Biotech, Despite Brexit Concerns
Although biotech financing in the UK took a hit last year in large part thanks to uncertainty around Brexit, 2019…
Vaccines / Back to Vax in Romania
As anti-vaccination sentiments resurface globally, so have once-eradicated diseases. This situation is especially…
Europe / A New Approach to Health Crises in France & Germany
Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel recently put their heads together to come up with a health strategy that would…