Denmark Erik Jylling of the Danish Regions, the organisation charged with healthcare management for each of Denmark’s five regions, outlines the advantages and challenges which persist within Danish healthcare and sounds a clarion call for faster adaptation and greater collaboration with private industry. The innovation power that private enterprises have…
Sweden Region Skåne is the county council responsible for healthcare, public transport, business development, culture, infrastructure, and environmental issues in Skåne, Sweden. We sit down with Carl Johan Sonesson, chairman of the Executive Committee, who highlights his plan to dramatically reduce the waiting times in the region’s healthcare system, the importance…
Sweden Region Stockholm is responsible for all publicly funded healthcare in the Stockholm region. Its chairman, Irene Svenonius, explains her agenda to transform and modernize the region’s healthcare system to improve its efficiency, enhance patient value and prepare it for the technological revolutions to come. A key part of her plan…
France Frank Margain, chairman of Paris Region Entreprises, the ‘Invest in Paris Region’ promotion agency, discusses the importance of the life sciences sector for the Paris Region (Ile-de-France in French) and shares how the region is going through a key developmental period in attractivity, digitalization, and infrastructure investment. Previously, many…
UK With four out of the five NHS bodies, Leeds City Region is strongly anchored in the British life sciences ecosystem. Chair of Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership, Roger Marsh OBE, highlights what else makes the region special: its great talent, dedication to discovery and ability to build bridges between academia…
Pharma Following regulatory changes, CSL Behring is now able to offer plasma fractionation and purification services to Italy’s public healthcare sector for the first time. General manager Oliver Schmitt discusses the added value and savings CSL Behring can offer in this service segment and the benefits its newest generation of innovative…
Pharma The CEO of Medicen Paris Region, the biopharma cluster for the Paris region, discusses her vision to develop a world-class cluster and act as a catalyst for innovation; her international partnership strategy and how her diverse background in engineering, medicine and a variety of companies has equipped her to lead…
Pharma Puerto Rico is not only an important manufacturing hub, but is also positioning itself as a state-of-the-art center for R&D and clinical research. Iván Lugo, the executive director of the Industry University Research Center Inc. (INDUNIV), which brings together private sector, academia and government, discusses some of the island’s most…
Ferring The country manager of a research-driven, specialty biopharmaceutical group offering treatments for infertility outlines his firm’s approach for the socially conservative Algerian market. Your promotion as general manager of Ferring Algeria is quite recent. Can you tell us what were your priorities during the first year and how do you…
Novo Nordisk The global COO of the multinational at the forefront of the fight against diabetes explains why the Algerian market is so strategically important and how the ‘made in Algeria’ brand would have real potential at the regional level if only the government would remove impediments to export. As COO of Novo…
sales UCB has transformed into a specialty care pharma which focuses on bringing solutions to patients suffering from severe chronic diseases. The vice president and region head for Americas discusses how the company re-entered key markets in the Latin American space to drive future growth, how the company’s three flagships products…
development Glenmark’s country manager for Argentina discusses Argentina’s development expertise and how companies like Glenmark can capitalize on it through partnerships and collaborations. How did you become part of Glenmark, and what was your main objective when you took the helm in Argentina? I joined Glenmark five years ago as…
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