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Sweden Medivir is a Swedish biotech company focusing on the development and commercialization of innovative treatments for cancers of high unmet medical need. Last October, Dr Uli Hacksell was appointed CEO to reorganize the company in order to focus resources on the clinical development of Medivir’s projects. He presents the progress…

Spain The North-Eastern region of Catalonia is one of Spain’s most prosperous and has been allocating increasingly large amounts of its budget towards healthcare. With strong government backing and a robust enabling ecosystem, the region is now aiming to embrace cutting edge areas such as personalised medicine.   Healthcare a Priority…

China Jim Xu, GM of Medidata China, shares the importance of the China market to Medidata Solutions, the global leader in cloud services and solutions to the life sciences industry; his three priorities to foster stronger customer relationships, build talent, and deliver our offerings locally to the China market; as well…

Thailand Nares Damrongchai and Sirasak Teparkum from the Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences (TCELS) lay out current challenges in the Thai healthcare and life sciences industry, their mains axes of research as well as how TCELS is helping the development of Thai startups and expanding international collaboration.   Thailand…

Puerto Rico Dr David Lenihan, president of Ponce Health Sciences University (PHSU) in Puerto Rico, highlights the crucial role the institution plays in tackling the cultural deficit in healthcare on the US mainland as the Hispanic population increases. Lenihan also touches on how Puerto Rico can help counter the shortage of physicians…

Taiwan Dr Fu-Tong Liu, vice president of Academia Sinica, introduces the institution and its research mission of promoting basic research and enhancing translation. Dr Liu goes on to describe Academia Sinica’s biomedical research environment and also highlights the new National Biotechnology Research Park which will have a vital role in developing…

Sweden Mathias Uhlén is a world-renowned microbiology researcher at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Since 2003, he has led the Human Protein Atlas (HPA) project, an international effort to systematically map the human proteome and transcriptome. Among his many other achievements, he was also the founding director of the Science…

Thailand Thailand has experienced a steady decline in infectious disease rates in the last generation thanks to the country’s commitment to life sciences research. The executive vice president of the National Science and Technology Development Agency elaborates on Thailand’s research on infectious diseases and how collaboration fuels further progress.    We…

Sweden Some of the key stakeholders in Swedish healthcare and life sciences outline why they feel Sweden’s capital, Stockholm, is a rising star in life sciences innovation.   The Stockholm region is one of the most innovative life sciences hubs in the world Irene Svenonius, Region Stockholm Stockholm, a city built…

Thailand Thailand is becoming an increasingly attractive location for pharma companies to conduct clinical trials, with multinationals such as Novo Nordisk and Boehringer Ingelheim conducting more and more of their global trials in the country.   We are very active in engaging Thai doctors and patients in benefiting from involvement in…

Sweden Eric Wahlberg, CEO of Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden´s oldest university hospital, explains his strategic vision of hospital management and how Uppsala is utilising e-health, precision medicine, clinical trials, small biotech companies and the use of IT systems in hospitals.   I understand how doctors and nurses think, and what their…

Sweden Karolinska Institutet (KI) is a centre of excellence for medical research and education in Sweden and the world. Ole Petter Ottersen has been the president of KI since 2017. Prior to this, he was the president of the University of Oslo and director of the Centre for Molecular Biology and…