Global After almost four years leading Sanofi’s second largest market, China, Pius S. Hornstein moves into a global role to focus on the company’s digital transformation. “In the last 8 years, I have been witnessing the incredible opportunities that digital could unlock …” he said in a LinkedIn post announcing the…
Global AstraZeneca recently announced plans to continue investing in China, the company’s second largest market after the United States, with the construction of a production facility that will serve as its regional headquarters in Qingdao, Shandong. The plans were announced during the third Qingdao Multinationals Summit. “To further promote the development…
China Some of the most significant recent stories emanating from Chinese healthcare and life sciences, including why the development of a domestic mRNA COVID vaccine – widely acknowledged as an essential tool to shifting away from the country’s zero-COVID policy – is under threat from new mutations of the virus. Other…
Asia-Pacific Writing in the June edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Ellen Sem, Fengyun (Vicky) Han and Annetta C. Beauregard from Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, outline the real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) regulatory landscape in Asia Pacific. Real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) have played an…
China Due in part to an increasingly encouraging regulatory environment, China continues to strive for progress in cell and gene therapies (CGT). In fact, according to a 2021 Nature study, CAR T-cell therapy clinical trials in China have accounted for over 50% of registered CGT studies worldwide. Currently, over 200 CAR-T…
China Writing in the May edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Xu Wang of Novo Nordisk China looks at the new drug approvals in China in 2021. Among other highlights, the approval of two CAR-T products signal that CAR-T treatment has finally entered the commercialization stage. The number of new drug…
China Writing in the April edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, the DIA China Leadership and Career Community look at the Chinese pharmaceutical innovation ecosystem’s R&D talent gap and the China Pharmaceutical R&D Talent Innovation Research Project that was launched to address it. Over the past five years, China’s pharmaceutical innovation industry…
China As China struggles to maintain its ‘dynamic zero-COVID’ policy in the face of Omicron variant outbreaks, other key talking points emerging from the world’s second-largest healthcare and life sciences market include Chinese firms’ deals to manufacture generic versions of Pfizer’s COVID antiviral, Kintor’s 229 percent share price leap after positive…
China Bridge Consulting’s Zoe Leung examines the journeys of Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines outside of China’s borders, drawing on a number of examples, from Sinopharm’s work on boosting vaccine supply in the UAE to Sinovac’s Egyptian and Chilean partnerships, CanSino’s steady progress in Pakistan and Mexico, and Zhifei Longcom’s Uzbek success.* …
China Despite rapidly developing and rolling out two vaccines against COVID-19 – from domestic firms Sinopharm and Sinovac – China is yet to approve a vaccine that uses mRNA technology, either from a domestic firm or one of the two international products (Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna) currently approved elsewhere. As the…
China The latest news from Chinese healthcare and pharma including Western pharmacos’ moves to license therapies from Chinese partners to sell globally, the seismic impact of new COVID lockdown restrictions in major Chinese cities, and the Chinese firms at risk of being delisted in the US if they do not hand…
China Writing in the March 2022 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Jessie Zhu of Deltamed Co. Ltd./Pharmaron Clinical and Monica Juping Xu of Taimei Medical Technology outline the progress of pharmacovigilance standards in China, and make the call for greater levels of digitalisation and training. Since China joined ICH…
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