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Pharma Gerard van Harten highlights the key role of the chemical industry in bringing innovation to the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors. He discusses how Top Sector Chemistry has developed the Chemistry of Life roadmap and is promoting inter-sectoral chemical-pharmaceutical collaboration in order to foster innovation that will impact healthcare around the…

pharma Escalate Sciences is a Puerto Rican specialized science-based consulting firm focused on R&D, tech transfer, process design & improvement, analytical development and characterization. The company also serves different aspects of the life-sciences industry including project management, validation, qualification, statistical analysis, facility start-up, regulatory & compliance, reformulation and testing services. Its…

pharma Leonardo Vingiani, Director of Assobiotec, discusses how the country’s biotech industry has evolved since 2009, what areas still need improving and the enormous progress which has been made in unlocking the sector’s potential in Italy. Leonardo, to start off, what are some of the major milestones which the industry, and…

pharma Francisco García was appointed as the executive director for the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association (PRMA) in August 2015. He stresses the importance of developing Puerto Rico’s entrepreneurial talent and startup clusters as his main initiatives. As you have recently taken over as executive director of PRMA, could you outline the…

pharma  David Lenihan, CEO of Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU), and Kenira Thompson, president of the Ponce Research Institute, highlight the institution’s pioneering efforts in creating cultural competency for medical graduates and increasing investments in clinical research from the US for large-scale trials. What are your perceptions of Puerto Rico’s research…

QuantiLAB After recently signing a service level agreement with Mérieux NutriSciences in May 2015, Bertrand Baudot, Managing Director of QuantiLAB explains the company’s plans for the future. He also discusses the challenges and, more importantly, highlights the various opportunities in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector on Mauritius. In its first…

pharma Agustín Rullán, Dean of the College of Engineering at UPR Mayagüez, discusses the institution’s latest developments in engineering courses and their applicability in a practical industrial setting for students to jumpstart their professional careers. As a leading engineering college with 4,300 undergraduates and 400 graduates, the College plays a very…

pharma Jörg Buck, the Executive Director of the Italian-German Chamber of Commerce discusses the close trade relationship which ties the two countries together, how the business environment in Italy is evolving today and the need to keep the momentum in the economic recovery. To start off, having joined the chamber recently,…

Pharma The owner of Altis Biologics, Nick Duneas, illustrates the significance of the company’s flagship product, the Altis Osteogenic Bone Matrix (OBM) and how the company plans to commercialize the injectable bone graft substitute on a domestic and international scale moving forward. He also highlights how the Innovation Prize for Africa has…

Pharma 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 the challenge of consolidation that the diagnostics industry faces, as well as his cautiously optimistic assessment of  French competitiveness in the pharmaceutical and life…

France The Head of the Department of Medicine at the Faculty of Health Science at the University of Cape Town reveals how their role is not only in training people to be technically competent, but to produce the next generation of thinkers, researchers and innovators, how The Lancet report, produced by…

pharma 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, preservative-free eye drops, generics, medical devices and hospital markets, and uniqueness in terms of its culture of customer service. He also discusses his perspective…