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India R.S. Subramanian, country manager and Sandeep Juneja, vice president – Sales and Marketing, DHL Express India, explain why the world’s leading express logistics company is a trusted and accountable service provider for life sciences customers in India, and also how they are maximizing business development opportunities by growing their presence…

India A passionate advocate for Indian patients, Sanjiv Navangul, managing director of Janssen India, discusses the company’s public health work in the field of tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in support of the Government of India’s efforts to end TB, including providing access to novel drug bedaquiline, initiating a…

India A strong advocate for quality, Dilip Surana, chairman and managing director of Micro Labs, explains how the company’s strong focus on the quality of its products and move to specialty generics has led them to success in both the Indian and US markets. When we met in 2011, the company…

India Amit Mookim, IQVIA’s general manager for South Asia, discusses the major trends impacting the Indian pharmaceutical market and how Indian companies are rethinking their commercial strategies and becoming more specialized to reach sophisticated international markets. Mr. Mookim, could you give our international readers a brief introduction of IQVIA and explain…

India Satish Kumar Singh (managing director) & Shashi Shekhar Kumar (vice president International Business) from M/s Cachet Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd., discuss their success with special reference to marketing, distribution and operating strategies for non-regulated markets. M/s Cachet Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. is a subsidiary of M/s Alkem Laboratories Ltd. Mr. Singh, before…

India A pioneer of the biotechnology industry in India and the head of the country’s leading biotechnology enterprise, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, discusses the recent US FDA approval of Ogivri™, the first biosimilar for trastuzumab and the sixth approved biosimilar in the US overall, and how Biocon is implementing a low-value high-volume model…

India A nationwide renowned neonatologist and member of the High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage, NITI Aayog’s medical expert, Dr. Vinod K. Paul introduces the work that the government institution has been carrying out to improve India’s healthcare system since its creation in 2015 and discussed how India is…

India Newly appointed commissioner of the Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) of the Indian state of Maharashtra, Dr. Pallavi Darade, shares her objectives to further consolidate the FDA’s positioning as a transparent, efficient and trusted regulatory institution by involving the industry in any consultation and make them an integral part of…

India With the Indian public healthcare apparatus straining at the seams to provide affordable access to treatments to the country’s vast population, two pioneering pharmaceutical multinationals – Novartis and Janssen – have stepped up with innovative initiatives to fill the gaps. “Economists such as Michael Porter see Arogya Parivar as a…

India Kanchana TK, director general of the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI), the association which represents the interests of research-based pharmaceutical companies in India, discusses regulatory reform and how OPPI is helping to shape the Indian healthcare system. Please introduce yourself to our international readers and your journey to…

India Janmejay Vyas, chairman of the Dishman Group, shares the story of his success in establishing a trustworthy relationship with the strictest drug regulator in the world, the US FDA. Mr Vyas, since the very beginning your focus has been on research and developing various in-house technologies for quaternary ammonium compounds…

Brazil Sameer Savkur, country manager of Biogen Brazil, provides insights into the key specificities of the Brazilian pharmaceutical ecosystem and documents the great successes of Biogen affiliate in working hand-in-hand with all key public and regulatory stakeholders in Brazil, as recently illustrated with Biogen’s innovative treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA),…