UK Seven months into the job as CEO of GSK, Luke Miels has moved faster and bigger than most expected. Having laid out an M&A strategy based around small bolt-ons at the start of the year, Miels then ripped up his own rule book with the USD 10.6 billion acquisition of…
USA You cannot choose between performing and transforming. The organisations that succeed can do both As AI, shifting healthcare policy, growing pressure around affordability and access, and rapidly evolving models of commercialisation reshape the pharmaceutical industry, Deborah Glasser reflects on how Sanofi is positioning its specialty care business for the next…
Germany Professor Stefan Vieths, president of Germany’s Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI), explains how Europe’s most specialised biomedicines regulator is navigating a period of rapid transformation. Vieths traces the PEI’s 130-year evolution from a serum-testing institute into the federal authority overseeing vaccines, blood products, and advanced therapies; examines how Germany’s Medical Research Act is…
USA Thomas Madden is the CEO of Acuitas Therapeutics, the lipid nanoparticle delivery technology company whose platforms underpinned some of the most significant advances in mRNA medicine, such as the COVID-19 vaccines. In this interview, Madden shares how the company is evolving beyond COVID. He discusses the company’s preformed vesicle technology…
Hong Kong Xia JIN, co-founder & CEO of Hong Kong-based immunology biotech Immuno Cure, outlines the progress of its DNA vaccine platform, highlighting strong Phase I results for an HIV therapeutic vaccine and upcoming Phase II trials. He discusses regulatory and operational challenges in China, growing institutional support, partnership efforts, and expansion…
Taiwan Tina Graves, General Manager of GSK Taiwan, reflects on the affiliate’s strong commercial performance, the strategic shift towards specialty care and oncology, and the urgent case for repositioning adult immunisation as a public health investment. She outlines how Taiwan can become a clinical trial powerhouse, and describes a leadership philosophy…
Taiwan Promoted to General Manager of Moderna Taiwan in 2024, Wenchi Liu brings over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience spanning commercial strategy and operations. Since joining Moderna in 2023, she has helped position Taiwan as a priority market within the company’s Asia-Pacific region. In this interview, she discusses the rollout…
Hong Kong Following our conversation with CEO Lance Yuen on CK Life Sciences’ strategic direction, Chief Scientific Officer Melvin Toh now takes us inside the scientific engine driving that vision forward. He traces the organisation’s evolution from US-based acquisitions to a protein/peptide and circular RNA vaccine platform built in Hong Kong, explains…
Taiwan ImmunAdd’s Dr Pi-Hui Liang discusses her transition from academic research to entrepreneurship, driven by the critical shortage of commercially available vaccine adjuvants. With a proprietary saponin-based platform addressing supply chain constraints and toxicity limitations of existing adjuvants, ImmunAdd aims to democratise access to advanced immunological tools whilst developing its own…
France As global vaccine development grows more complex and capital more selective, Valneva is sharpening its identity and returning decisively to its roots. The company’s decision to close its Nantes site and re-centralise French operations in Lyon is more than operational streamlining; it signals a strategic recommitment to one of Europe’s…
China EnCureGen’s founder Dr Aimin Hui draws on a career spanning oncology, molecular biology and global R&D leadership to pursue the next generation of mRNA therapeutics. His role in driving the Fosun-BioNTech COVID-19 collaboration shaped his belief that mRNA can extend far beyond infectious disease, and from Guangzhou International Bio Island…
Hong Kong CK Life Sciences, under the leadership of CEO Lance Yuen, is reshaping its identity through a renewed focus on early-stage oncology innovation powered by next-generation cancer vaccines, AI-enabled design and a growing network of regional partnerships. Stable commercial revenues give the organisation unusual freedom to pursue high conviction science, while…
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