Tagged with APAC

China In recent years, global pharma’s Business Development (BD) operations in Asia have evolved from primarily managing global agreements locally to engaging in more complex tasks like contract negotiation and due diligence. Servier’s Asia BD Head Cynthia Xin Wang explains how this shift reflects changing market dynamics and the growing importance…

Global Latin America will be the world’s fastest growing region for pharmaceuticals up to 2027, with a stunning expected compound annual growth rate of 22 percent, according to recent reporting from IQVIA. The Indian subcontinent can also expect sizeable growth over the next three years, although the US, Europe, and East…

ASEAN A roundup of some of the most important recent pharma news from the dynamic ASEAN region, including a big new investment from Novartis in its antibody plant in Singapore, the establishment of ‘pharmaceutical ecozones’ to streamline the drug application process in the Philippines; Vietnam’s journey to attaining WHO Level Four…

Japan In conversation at DIA Europe 2024 in Brussels, Shinobu Uzu of Japan’s regulatory agency, PMDA, laid out the organisation’s new five-year plan, how PMDA is hoping to incentivise more biopharmaceutical R&D in the country, and why Japan is “the gateway to Asia” in regulatory terms.   International pharmaceutical companies [should]…

South Korea Despite its ageing population and growing need for healthcare, South Korea had just 2.6 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants in 2022, one of the lowest numbers among developed nations. To deal with the shortage, the government has created a plan to boost the yearly number of medical students, but this has…

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…

APAC The latest pharma and healthcare news from APAC, including Celltrion’s plans to sell its Takeda portfolio to CBC; reforms to the South Korean national insurance system that may lead to shorter reimbursement timelines; Novartis’ early-stage HDAC6 Inhibitor deal with Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical; Astellas Pharma’s gastric cancer FDA fail; Daiichi…

India Managing director & CEO of Ferring India, Sudheendra Kulkarni, whose responsibilities have grown to cover the entire 10-country South Asia & ASEAN cluster, speaks about Ferring’s Indian footprint, which includes local API production and product development, and the 18-20 percent growth the affiliate saw in 2023. He discusses the relevance…

India KV Subramaniam, president of Reliance Life Sciences, a research-driven medical biotech with a fully integrated value chain that covers everything from research to manufacturing, comments on the firm’s unique positioning and its efforts to diversify its portfolio. Moving beyond plasma proteins and biosimilars, Reliance looks to expand into vaccines and…

India Suresh Pattathil wears two hats within India’s vast pharma ecosystem. Not only is he responsible for managing AbbVie India as its Managing Director and GM, he also advocates for broader pharma interests as president of the Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI). He speaks about India’s goal of fostering…

India In the latest blow to Indian pharma’s reputation, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the suspension of marketing authorisations for a large number of generics tested by Indian CRO Synapse Labs. While the Indian government has taken steps to regulate the industry and improve quality, including a new Drugs,…

India Director of the oldest and largest cancer centre in India, the Tata Memorial Hospital, C S Pramesh also heads up the National Cancer Grid (NCG), a nationwide network of over 300 cancer centres and research institutions. He outlines the pioneering research-based work of the Tata Memorial Hospital and explains the…