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India Top stories from Indian pharma including Dr Reddy’s move to US online platforms, Aspen/Serum Institute’s vaccine deal for Africa, Aurobindo’s USD 37.7 million investment in subsidiary CuraTeQ and Biocon’s FDA troubles.   Indian pharma market growth in August 12.1 percent (The Economic Times India) According to a study from the…

Global Sarah Pope Miksinski, executive director/CMS regulatory affairs, and Gregory Rullo, senior director regulatory affairs, at AstraZeneca discuss the need for common ground among regulators and industry when it comes to patient centricity and for strategic leadership to address differing regulatory control-strategy requirements. In today’s increasingly complex and intricate pharmaceutical landscape,…

Italy Guerbet’s Alessandro Bocci – General Manager Italy & Iberia – describes the nearly 100-year-old company’s firm position in the field of contrast media for radiology and its plans for developing a portfolio in artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, he outlines how the Italy, Spain and Portugal cluster made its way…

Global DIA 2022 convened with an opening plenary that explored the question What is the Future of Healthcare? from four connected perspectives—Inclusive, Global, Individual, Digital.   Barbara Lopez Kunz, Global Chief Executive, DIA “We’re here this week because we imagine a world where powerful health interventions and tools are rapidly discovered,…

France Exor, led by Fiat brand heirs the Agnelli family, has signed a partnership agreement for an investment of EUR 833 million in the also family-owned French holding, Institut Mérieux, known for its diagnostic arm, BioMérieux. Under the new partnership, Exor will acquire a 10% shareholding in Institut Mérieux by way…

India Arshia Bhandari of patient safety thought leadership forum PhVFIT examines how India is embracing a more patient-centric healthcare model via the implementation of a national patient safety implementation framework.   In April 2018, the India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched the National Patient Safety Implementation Framework 2018-2025 (NPSIF),…

Africa David Mukanga of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives an overview of the latest developments on the long road towards the creation of an African Medicines Agency and the push to establish vaccine manufacturing facilities on the continent.   Since the minimum number of 15 ratifications by African Union…

UAE Taher Shams, Zulekha Healthcare Group’s Managing Director, outlines the group’s expansion in UAE and India and its participation in the Dubai Health Authority’s “Dubai Health Experience” medical tourism portal. In addition, he speaks about fears of market saturation in UAE.  We are the shining star in the Middle East, with…

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…

Europe Nick Sykes of Pfizer discusses the European Commission’s intention to “future-proof” the EU regulatory system and the suggestions for changes that were discussed througout the DIA Europe 2022 meeting. From the May edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine. In its Pharmaceutical Strategy, the European Commission intends to “future-proof” the EU…

Spain With global ambitions, Atrys Health, a publicly traded Spanish health-tech company, is betting on telediagnosis and last-generation radiotherapy to lead the precision medicine race, not missing the Big Data opportunities along the way. Its executive president, Dr. Santiago de Torres, explains why nothing is “too fast” when aiming for a…

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…