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Global Having been quietly working away on its mRNA platform for years, Moderna stepped into the limelight during the COVID-19 pandemic and became a commercial-stage outfit almost overnight with its vaccine. After generating sales of USD 18.4 billion in 2022, demand for the company’s Spikevax shot, still its only commercialized product…

Switzerland While the Swiss biotech sector is inevitably facing many of the same funding challenges as the global industry and is still struggling to make a meaningful comeback from its 2022 slump, the latest report from the Swiss Biotech Association and EY shows the sector’s resilience with the record revenues of…

Hong Kong VMS Group was founded in 2006 and since then has built close relationships with a handful of large anchor investors, including some of the largest families in Hong Kong. Apart from managing over USD 4.3 billion across its three in-house strategies – Private Equity, Real Estate and Structured Finance, it…

China In recent years, global pharma’s Business Development (BD) operations in Asia have evolved from primarily managing global agreements locally to engaging in more complex tasks like contract negotiation and due diligence. Servier’s Asia BD Head Cynthia Xin Wang explains how this shift reflects changing market dynamics and the growing importance…

China Since it was established in 1988,  PhIRDA, an organization that groups together China’s pharma innovators, research institutions and investors has played an active role in the evolution of China’s biopharma landscape. Executive President Prof. Song Ruilin outlines the advances and some of the challenges and opportunities facing China’s biotech and…

Saudi Arabia Baxter Saudia Arabia GM Faisal BinDail shares some insights into the renal care specialist’s local manufacturing hub, the sole manufacturing site for peritoneal dialysis products in the Middle East, and the company’s plans to expand its reach in Saudi Arabia and the broader region.   We aim to provide our…

Saudi Arabia Basel Al-Qahtani, General Manager of Boston Scientific Saudi Arabia, discusses how Boston Scientific has expanded its operations to establish a fully fledged regional headquarters in the kingdom. He outlines the company’s commitment to Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 agenda through public-private partnerships and potentially through accountable care organizations, and underlines the…

Saudi Arabia Since joining Moderna as its first ex-US commercial employee in Spring 2020, Dan Staner has played a leading role in developing what is now one of the world’s top 20 biggest pharma companies. Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom, Staner describes how Moderna has been able to fashion a new, optimised company…

Saudi Arabia Newly-appointed SPIMACO CEO Jérôme Cabannes outlines the ongoing transformation and growth of SPIMACO, focusing on leveraging existing assets while expanding through partnerships, new technologies, and market diversification. He highlights the company’s shift towards more complex products, such as biosimilars, and how its international acquisitions align with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030…

Saudi Arabia SPIMACO is well-known within the Middle East and North Africa, but less so internationally. Chairman Ahmed Aljedai explains how the company is changing that by actively expanding its international presence, including via acquisitions in Europe. He also traces SPIMACO’s journey towards becoming a full-spectrum pharma company covering the entire value…

China Chinese biotech Jacobio has made remarkable strides in pioneering first-in-class drug research, with their SHP2 inhibitor project only the second globally to initiate a clinical trial for a novel target and eventually licensed to AbbVie for approximately USD one billion in 2020. Chairman and CEO Dr Wang Yinxiang outlines Jacobio’sstrategic…

UAE Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are increasingly investing in healthcare and the life sciences to reinforce their local industries and pursue the region’s economic diversification goals. Following the Saudi fund PIF’s launch of CDMO Lifera and Qatar’s QIA biotech investments, the UAE fund ADQ…