Olivier Pilley, French GM of the Swiss-American biotech company with a pioneering computational approach to anti-cancer therapies, presents ARIAD’s fascinating R&D model, his optimistic assessment of the…
In Conversation
The Director of the Social Security talks about the need to strengthen the sustainability of the French social security system, how France is attached to its…
Interview: Jean-Charles Rousset – Head of Aspen Sterile Operations and Managing Director, Aspen Notre Dame de Bondeville (NDB), France

The head of Aspen sterile operations and managing director of Aspen NDB, reveals how their facility in France acts as the main platform for the group´s…
The CEO of Diaxonhit Group, a fully integrated French leader in in vitro diagnostics, discusses the company’s strategic focus on specialty vitro diagnostics, his perspective on…
Interview: Serge Uzan, Vice President of Health and Medicine, Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), France

The Vice President of Health and Medicine at Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) and Director of the University’s Institute of Oncology reveals how the French…
Interview: Marie Lang, Director and Francis Willig, in charge of the Industrial Sector, CNCR, Le Comité National de Coordination de la Recherche (National Committee for Research Co-ordination), France

The Director of the CNCR and the person in charge of the industrial sector, talk about the fragmented nature of French clinical research funding, why when…
Interview: Denis Comet – President of AFCRO (the French Association of CROs) and Axonal-Biostatem, France

The President of France’s Association for CROs (AFCROs) discusses the issues surrounding France’s clinical research sector and the actions that both the public and private sector…
The president of Gedeon Richter France and CEO of PregLem, a Swiss-based biotech company acquired by Gedeon Richter in 2010, discusses the exciting synergies that have…
Pierre Banzet, President of Group Synerlab, one of the top ten French CMOs, discusses his group’s ambitious European expansion strategy, driven by their specialties in multi-dose,…
Interview: Professor Xavier Nassif – Institut Necker Enfants Malades (Necker Institute for Sick Children) (INEM), France

The Director of the newly formed Necker Institute for Sick Children reveals how
Interview: Hoori Kaskanian, Pfizer Global Established Products BU Head & Eric Boury, Director of Institutional Affairs (Hospira), Hospira (Pfizer subsidiary), France

Pfizer Global Established Products’ BU Head and Hospira’s Director of Institutional Affairs tell us about Pfizer’s recent major acquisition of Hospira, their post-merger strategy for increasing…
Interview: David Khayat, Head of the Department of Medical Oncology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France

The Head of the Department of Medical Oncology at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital reveals how France is the only country in the world with universal and unlimited…