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Denmark In conversation at DIA Europe 2024 in Brussels, Lars Bo Nielsen lays out the digital transformation that the Danish Medicines Agency has undergone over the past three years and how AI can best be integrated into the work of national regulatory bodies.   What does AI really mean? How can…

Denmark Taken from PharmaBoardroom’s new country-focused series on market access and health technology assessment (HTA), this piece gives the lowdown on the HTA decision analysis framework in Denmark. Buy The Pharma Legal Handbook: Market Access & HTA – Denmark here for £359.   Which are the health technology assessment (HTA) evaluation…

Denmark After transitioning from a fledgling biotech to a mature commercial-stage company on the back of its first approval, Zealand Pharma was hit with the challenges of commercialisation and the disappointing sales of its severe hypoglycemia treatment, Zegalogue. As a result, in 2022, the Danish firm did an about face, sacked…

Denmark LEO Pharma has been in the midst of a shakeup since the beginning of 2022. After naming a new CEO and announcing a major restructuring, the Danish dermatology pharma has let a considerable number of employees go, closed research centres and restructured its R&D team. While LEO’s financials look promising…

Global Ever since Novo Nordisk launched Wegovy two years ago, the company has struggled to meet the huge demand for its breakthrough weight loss drug and is yet to make it available in a larger range of markets. Following a recent launch in Germany, Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen makes…

Denmark Danish allergy specialist ALK will have a new CEO in 2024, with current incumbent Carsten Hellmann set to step down after a seven-year spell in the hot seat. Hellmann, 59, will be replaced by the comparatively youthful 45-year-old Peter Halling at the end of the year, which ALK Board Chairman…

Denmark Denmark has long been a global frontrunner in medical research ethics and now boasts a more robust ethical infrastructure, spearheaded by a new body, The National Centre for Ethics. Head of the Centre’s Science and Ethics Division Helle Harder explains the rationale behind its formation, how ethics covers the quality…

Denmark Henrik Brabrand, CEO of life science-focused executive search firm Albright Partners A/S, gives his expert insight into how to stand out above the crowd and get noticed by headhunters.   So, you have decided that you may be up for a new challenge. You may not know it yet, but…

Denmark Europe lags behind the US in terms of biotech success stories, but one company bucking that trend is Denmark-headquartered Genmab, with a market cap of over USD 25 billion. Dual-listed on the Copenhagen stock exchange and on NASDAQ in the US, there are five products based on Genmab science on…

Denmark Catherine Mazzacco’s two-year stint as CEO of Danish dermatology specialist LEO Pharma is over. With the company’s board planning for an initial public offering (IPO) within the next four-to-five years, LEO is now on the lookout for a replacement with capital market experience and the ability to steer the firm…

Denmark Denmark boasts plenty of strong fundamentals as a clinical trials hub, but is perhaps constrained by a population of just 5.8 million and a correspondingly small patient pool. However, international collaboration, not least with neighbouring Sweden (population 10.4 million), has the potential to greatly increase the pool from which trial…

Denmark Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom, Jan van de Winkel highlights the tremendous progress that European biotech success story Genmab has made over the past six years, how its partnership model is evolving, Denmark’s continuing relevance to the company, and Genmab’s value proposition for the next generation of talent.   Genmab has…