Interview with Carlos Gallardo, General Manager UK & Ireland, Almirall UK
The UK is leading the biotech turn, and is recognized as the largest biotech market in Europe. Why did Almirall only decide to enter this market until late 2007? Almirall…
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Almirall is an international pharmaceutical company based on innovation and committed to health, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. Almirall researches, developes, produces and markets proprietary R&D medicines and those under licence with the aim of improving people’s health and wellbeing.
The therapeutic areas on which Almirall focuses its research resources are related to the treatment of:
x Asthma,
x COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease),
x Rheumatoid arthritis,
x Multiple sclerosis,
x Psoriasis,
x Dermatology
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