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pharma The Vice President of Health and Medicine at Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) and Director of the University’s Institute of Oncology reveals how the French social security system needs to look at how to evaluate real needs, why the patient has to become more involved in the decisionmaking process,…

France The Head of the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Health Science at the University of Cape Town reveals how their role is not only in training people to be technically competent, but to produce the next generation of thinkers, researchers and innovators, how The Lancet report, produced by…

basic research Professor Burak Erman, the leader of the Drug Research Center at Koç University, and his colleague Hakan Orer, discuss the early activities of the center as a catalyst for collaboration and communication between the pharmaceutical industry and academic sciences in Turkey, as well as the center’s achievements so far, including…

Monash University Professor Kenneth K. C. Lee, Head of the School of Pharmacy at Monash University Malaysia, discusses the institution’s position as a hub for health economics in the Asia Pacific region and explains the factors that will make the university a pharmaceutical leader.   There is a lot of competition in…

university The executive director of Latin America’s largest plasma fractionation plant, a publicly-funded laboratory within the 400 year old National University of Cordoba, discusses the organization’s social responsibility as a provider and leader for plasma derived therapies in the region, and their exciting pipeline of innovative biotech products.     How does Hemoderivados’s…

Array In Taiwan, biotech is finally booming, and more and more of the companies benefitting from this boom are listing on the Gre Tai Securities Market (GTSM), built with small to medium enterprises in mind, and tailored for companies that are part of emerging industries. But are these companies overvalued, and…

Biomedical The chairman of Taipei Medical University (TMU) discusses the key challenges TMU has faced over the years, how these challenges will continue to affect the future, and what international accreditation will mean for the collaboration of TMU with international pharmaceutical companies. Taipei Medical University (TMU) has a long history in…

Singapore Management University (SMU) Since the last time we had the pleasure of meeting you, 4 years ago, what have been the main developments and changes in the Singaporean pharmaceutical industry? One of the most important changes was that Singapore and India signed a MoU; within this treaty Indian generic drugs will benefit from…

China Medical University Healthcare System Many key figures from the pharmaceutical industry have told us that the hospitals in Taiwan are the keystone to the country’s healthcare industry: the hospitals provide a very important service linking the latest innovations from pharmaceutical companies to the people, and helping encourage growth and innovation. I’d like to start…

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) Your role as Chair of the Executive Board is a mix between CEO and CMO. On a daily basis, which do you see yourself as more – the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital or the Chief Medical Officer? The choice to have a Chairman of the Executive Board with…

National Taiwan University Hospital Could you start with an overview of the hospital’s capabilities and areas of focus in 2010? NTUH is a 2500 bed medical center and JCI accredited. We are a Centre of Excellence for clinical trials and clinical research in Asia Pacific. We ranked first in Taiwan and fifth in institutional…