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Morocco With a generational universal healthcare reform underway in Morocco, the country’s Minister of Health and Social Protection Khalid Aït Taleb outlines why the ongoing updates to his country’s healthcare system far outweigh what has gone before in terms of scale and scope. Minister Aït Taleb also touches on digitalisation and…

Europe As part of a wide-ranging conversation with PharmaBoardroom published earlier this month, European Medicines Agency (EMA) Executive Director Emer Cooke laid out four of the Agency’s core focus areas for the coming year, including the lessons to be taken from the pandemic response, why antimicrobial resistance must not be neglected,…

Europe In conversation at DIA Europe 2023 in Basel, European Medicines Agency Executive Director Emer Cooke looks back at the lessons EMA has taken from the COVID-19 pandemic response, outlines the Agency’s approach to antimicrobial resistance, and highlights how it hopes to contribute to a stronger European clinical trials ecosystem.  …

Global Gilead Sciences’ Jacopo Andreose PhD is a 20+ year pharma veteran and is today responsible for setting company strategy, planning and execution for over 150 countries across Asia, Russia/CIS, Latin and Central America, the Middle East, and Africa. In an exclusive conversation, Andreose outlines how Gilead was able to roll…

Switzerland In an exclusive interview, Jean-Paul Clozel explains Idorsia’s unique value proposition as a biotech focused on small molecules, how agnosticism in terms of therapeutic areas leads to more innovative medical breakthroughs, and why scientific innovation continues to motivate him.   When you have started two companies, people think that you…

Asia-Pacific In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, Takeda APAC SVP Thomas Willemsen outlines his strategy for bringing the company’s specialty pharma portfolio to the diverse group of countries that make up the APAC region, the potential significance of Takeda’s upcoming dengue vaccine, and what Asia’s contribution to global healthcare and life…

Coronavirus The CEOs and top executives, David Ricks, chairman and CEO, Eli Lilly & Co and IFPMA president, Severin Schwan, CEO, Roche, Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer, Johnson & Johnson, David Loew, executive VP, Sanofi Pasteur and Rajeev Venkayya, president, Global Vaccines Business Unit, Takeda took part in a virtual press…

Global Greg Reh leads Deloitte’s global life sciences sector which includes clients in biopharma, medtech, generics and distribution businesses, as well as non-profit patient advocacy organizations and regulatory agencies. He discusses talent acquisition and retention in global life sciences today, the challenges around data and AI uptake, and the future of…

Global In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, Tom O’Leary, chief information officer (CIO) of leading contract research organisation (CRO), ICON, highlights how data is already revolutionising the CRO industry and the steps that still need to be taken to better match patients with targeted therapies and improve health outcomes. O’Leary also…

France Olivier Laureau, global president of Servier Group, outlines the impact of recent acquisitions, the significance of Servier’s recently-opened commercial subsidiary in the US, the ongoing importance of France to the global group, and Servier’s unique value proposition as a privately-owned R&D-focused company.   The acquisition of Shire products also allowed…

USA Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom at the 2017 BIO Convention in San Diego, former FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach lifts the lid on the ‘FDA Beyond Our Borders’ project that he initiated. Dr. von Eschenbach, you were the FDA Commissioner for three years, from 2006 to 2009. What do you see…

Luxembourg In an exclusive interview, Romain Schneider, Minister of Social Security for Luxembourg, on the successes of the Luxembourgish social security system, areas for improvement, and Luxembourg’s positioning within Europe. You were appointed Minister of Social Security nearly three years ago now, in December 2013. What have been the main changes…