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Taiwan Lee Po-Chang, director general of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) details his main priorities to further strengthen the country’s widely acclaimed single-payer health system, which already stands as one of the most advanced in the region, while adapting the NHIA to evolving healthcare needs and to the growing challenges…

Taiwan In an exclusive interview, Amy Huang, general manager of OBI Pharma, shares her plans to bolster the international development of the company and further strengthen its expertise throughout the drug development process. She also elaborates on the key next steps that lie ahead for OBI Pharma’s flagship immuno-oncology therapy, Adagloxad…

Taiwan Wu Tsung-Tsong, Minister Without Portfolio of the Republic of China (Taiwan) supervises and coordinates Taiwan’s Biomedical Industry Innovation Program. In this exclusive interview, he documents his main priorities and the government’s unrivalled commitment to further enhancing the attractiveness of Taiwan’s biotech ecosystem and bolstering a win-win relationship between Taiwan, the…

Taiwan Leveraging Taiwan’s remarkable talent pool in chemistry, some of the country’s fastest-growing companies have been concentrating their efforts on technology platforms that allow them to develop a plethora of potentially game-changing products, rather than focusing all their resources on the risky development of a single, potentially groundbreaking product.   Taiwan…

Taiwan Johnsee Lee, a leading figure in the Taiwanese biotech and pharmaceutical sectors and Chairman of Taiwan Bio Industry Organization, the largest and one of the most influential biotechnology associations in Taiwan, shares his vision for the future development of Taiwan’s thriving biotech sector and the critical success factors he envisions…

Taiwan Founded in 2012, Senhwa Biosciences is mainly engaged in the development and clinical study of small molecule drugs to treat various types of cancer, and its drug development pipelines include CX-5461, a first-in-class drug using G-quadruplex (G4) stabilizer as a mechanism as well as the casein kinase 2 (CK2) inhibitor…

Taiwan Wayne Wang, director general of Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), the country’s largest and oldest innovation cluster and the first in Taiwan to establish a science park exclusively dedicated to the life sciences industry, documents the potential of HSP as a world-class eco-system for start-ups, local and international mature companies, prestigious…

Taiwan Derek Wang, Chairman of the board of the China Chemical & Pharmaceutical Group (CCPG), one of the leading pharmaceutical groups in Taiwan, provides insights into his strategies to consolidate CCPG’s leadership in Taiwan and China and accelerate the group’s market penetration in strategic countries such as Japan and the US,…

Taiwan Derek Wang, Chairman of the board of the China Chemical & Pharmaceutical Group (CCPG), one of the leading pharmaceutical groups in Taiwan, provides insights into his strategies to consolidate CCPG’s leadership in Taiwan and China and accelerate the group’s market penetration in strategic countries such as Japan and the US,…

Taiwan Wang Yu Pei, general manager of Nang Kuang Pharmaceutical, Taiwan’s indisputable market leader for injectable products, provides insights into the global ambitions of the company as Nang Kuang is about to bring its first injectable into the US market and is also looking for Europe-based partners to distribute its high-quality…

Taiwan With more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published and more than ten thousand citations, Guochuan Emil Tsai, founder and CEO of SyneuRx and Professor at the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is an internationally reputed scientist in neurosciences and brain disorders, whose…

Taiwan Ko-Chung Lin, founder and CEO of PharmaEssentia, documents the main specificities of the company’s groundbreaking ropeginterferon alfa-2b, a once-every-two-week interferon displaying a unique toxicity profile. In this regard, Mr. Lin also provides insights into PharmaEssentia’s approach to the upcoming launch of this product into the US market as well as…