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India Mohal Sarabhai, managing director of Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises Limited (ASE) on transforming his family’s failing century-old business and creating new companies beneath the ASE Holdings umbrella, including a joint venture with Co-Diagnostics, CoSara Diagnostics, that span areas from diagnostics to APIs. He highlights CoSara Diagnostics’ tuberculosis (TB) and human papillomavirus…

Saudi Arabia As the Saudi pharma market – worth approximately USD 8.2 billion – continues to grow, so does the need for pharma companies to efficiently distribute their medicines inside the Kingdom. Here, we present four of the main trends at play in the Saudi distribution landscape, from market consolidation to centralised…

Saudi Arabia Khaled Harb, general manager of Saudi distributor Abdulrehman Algosaibi, highlights the changing distribution landscape in Saudi Arabia, the importance of offering comprehensive solutions that go beyond traditional services, what the updated role of procurement body NUPCO means for the industry, and shares his perspective on the Vision 2030 transformation.  …

Mexico Inosan Biopharma General Manager Juan Lopez de Silanes outlines the Mexican family company’s recent milestones, including an impressive internationalisation push in the Middle East & Africa Region, how demand for antivenom products is evolving in emerging markets, and why knowledge transfer and inter-stakeholder collaboration is key for the firm’s future…

Ecuador In the 1st Supplement of the Official Gazette No. 107 of December 24, 2019, the Reform of the Criminal Law was published, which will enter into force in June 21, 2020.   Included among the reforms, is the decriminalization of possession of drugs that contain cannabis or derivatives as their active…

Malaysia Dr Hyzan Mohd Yusof, CEO at OSA Technology, tells the story of how he founded the company to address Malaysia’s unmet needs in medical devices as well as his vision on the next steps the government should take to boost the sector.   Having our own manufacturing plant is a…

Baltics Vasily and Svetlana Bankovsky, founders of Biosan, talk about the company’s philosophy to develop modern, exciting personal products for sample preparation in the field of genomics, proteomics and cellomics and about their ambition to grow domestically and internationally. Vasily and Svetlana, can you give our international readers a brief overview…

Switzerland Philippe Held, founder of the innovative Swiss medtech Dermosafe, discusses the origins behind the company’s game-changing digitalized solutions for detecting skin cancer at an early stage, how the rollout of the technology is progressing, and the importance of patient and physician education. You founded DermoSafe around five years ago with…

Taiwan C.Y. Cheng, chairman and president of Formosa Laboratories, shares exciting news about the establishment of a new drug development company, Formosa Pharmaceuticals. He explains how the know-how gained from running a successful international API production business will help Formosa avoid the typical mistakes that young R&D companies face. Mr. Cheng,…

Pharma Enrico Allievi, President of the Italian OTC (Over The Counter) association, Assosalute, talks about the state of the OTC market in Italy, as well as the association’s role in creating value for its members and his outlook for the next five years. Enrico, to start off, could you explain Assosalute’s…

pharma The Netherlands boasts a strong service sector for the life science industries locally and globally. Sinensis Life Sciences CEO, Ruud Santing, discusses his company’s history and its offering that covers the whole range of pharmaceutical testing and of small-scale manufacturing of clinical trial materials. Sinensis Life Sciences was founded in…

pharma The minister of health reveals how for the first time in the country´s history the healthcare sector is following a clear roadmap with the National Development Plan, a vision for where the country should be in 2030, how the National Health Initiative will mean a total reconstruction of the healthcare…