Taiwan Dr Yuan-Hung Hsu, President of MegaPro Biomedical, discusses the Taiwanese company’s evolution into a late-stage nanomedicine company, with two platforms targeting precision medicine. He highlights MPB 1523, a heavy-metal-free MRI contrast agent for liver cancer, and MPT 1734, a nanomicelle-based therapy for prostate cancer, while outlining MegaPro’s partnership strategy, cell-tracking…
Taiwan Taiwan’s investment culture remains heavily oriented toward semiconductors and electronics, and few investors are yet convinced to commit capital to biotech Dr. Lin, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Tripartite Therapeutics, discusses the inspiration behind the company’s ADC platform of OmniLink® and Polarpeutic® technologies, designed to overcome key limitations in…
Taiwan A genuinely healthy lifestyle can help prevent neurodegenerative disease Charles S.Y. Yang discusses how his background in physics and quantum sensing led to the founding of MagQu, pioneering ultra-sensitive blood biomarker diagnostics for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. He explains the company’s SQUID-based technology, commercial journey, regulatory ambitions and funding…
APAC For two decades the case for running a clinical trial in Asia was essentially arithmetic: the same study, for less money. That argument has not gone away, but it is no longer the one APAC’s own CRO leaders make. Asia Pacific is now the only region in the world where…
Taiwan Contemporary Taiwan finds itself navigating unprecedented healthcare challenges, having transitioned into a super-aged society with unexpected speed, compounded by one of the lowest birth rates globally. In 2024, to secure the nation’s future, President Lai Ching-te launched his flagship ‘Healthy Taiwan’ initiative. This comprehensive blueprint strives to shift the public…
Taiwan In recent years, Taiwan’s policymakers have been aggressively deploying a multi-layered industrial strategy – and doing so with the benefit of watching earlier regional movers stumble – in an effort to transform the island into a premier global hub for Cell and Gene Therapy (C>) manufacturing and development. This state-driven…
Taiwan Over the past three decades, Taiwan’s elderly population – defined as individuals aged 65 and older – has expanded by a staggering 152 percent. This demographic shift has introduced complex public health challenges, most notably a sharp rise in cancer incidence. “The epidemiological picture is quite sobering,” notes John Chang,…
Taiwan Biotechnology has long been a strategic priority for Taiwan’s economic development, standing alongside ICT and semiconductors as a key pillar of growth for the island. Driven by a highly educated scientific workforce and competitive development costs, Taiwan is a natural hub for early-phase drug development and initial manufacturing. However, only…
Taiwan Semiconductors: Silicon Powerhouse Taiwan and semiconductors – the microscopic chips inside virtually every electronic device – are inextricably linked. For a modestly sized island, Taiwan’s semiconductor dominance is extraordinary: through the state-backed TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), the island functions as the world’s foundry, manufacturing the advanced chips designed by…
Taiwan Taiwan runs one of the most cost-effective universal healthcare systems in the world, delivering near-universal coverage to 23 million people at a fraction of what comparable systems cost elsewhere. At the foundation of that achievement sits a network of domestic generic and OTC manufacturers, several of them family-owned businesses now…
Taiwan Despite its modest market size, Taiwan is proving a popular investment destination for pharma and medtech multinationals. While the island’s semiconductor industry garners more headlines and revenues, life sciences is also growing as an investment sector. Taiwan is frequently near the front of the queue within APAC for new product…
Taiwan Access to capital is the difference between life and death for small biotechs and life science start-ups. But in an industry with high levels of failure and decades-long development cycles, finding the right investors – those with sufficiently deep pockets and enough of an appetite for risk – can be…
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