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Thailand Under Thailand’s Universal Coverage Scheme, Thai citizens at every stage of life are entitled to essential health services and 99% of its population are currently covered. This year, not resting on its laurels, the NHSO’s priorities are the introduction of expanded benefits and subsidies and identifying those who still remain…

Thailand As the general manager of Menarini Thailand, Thomas Scott Birsinger shares the importance of the Thai affiliate within the company’s operations in the region. He also describes its efforts to work closely with both the government and industry to help ensure access to the most crucial medicines across very diverse…

USA US industry veteran Sharon Ayd describes her journey to becoming a pharma company board member, the various hurdles still facing female pharma executives, and the responsibility of women at the top to “pay it back” and help the next generation of female leaders.   As I climbed the corporate ladder,…

Taiwan Rita Huang, dean of the Office of Research and Development and the director of the TMU Research Center for Cell Therapy and Regeneration Medicine highlights the center’s unique capabilities and its innovative research projects within the emerging space of stem cell treatments. She goes on to give her insights on…

Taiwan NYMU President Dr Steve Kuo describes the history of the university and transformative period it is currently undergoing. Dr Kuo shares the university’s key strengths and unique strategy to merge ICT with medical science and build collaborations with the industry as a mission-oriented school.   For the last 20 years,…

Sweden The Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe and a globally renowned healthcare institution. Björn Zoëga was recently appointed as its director after major investments were made in a brand-new state-of-the-art facility. He explains the challenges that lie ahead, the hospital’s Patient First…

Opinion Greg Reh comments on the panel discussion from the Financial Times US Pharma and Biotech Summit about the changes needed to face coming innovations in manufacturing, pricing, and reimbursement of personalized therapies. These innovations include direct-to-payer models, mass customization, and valuation of gene therapies and one-time treatments, all of which…

France Christopher Cuniasse, managing director of Fagron France, sheds light on the specialty area of pharmaceutical compounding and its link with personalized medicine, noting the benefits it can deliver to health professionals, patients, the pharma industry, and healthcare systems. As a newly implemented leader tasked with growing the affiliate and developing…

Taiwan Researchers from Taiwan and the USA may have found a vaccine for the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – a deadly emerging disease with a mortality rate of over 34 percent.   The vaccine mimics the characteristics of the virus Hu Che-Ming, Academica Sinica Focus Taiwan reports that scientists…

Spain Miriam Rodriguez, general manager of Aspen Pharmacare Iberia, highlights the steps she has taken to set up the affiliate and how her past experiences have helped her. Furthermore, she breaks down the operations of Aspen in Spain and gives advice to women beginning their career in healthcare   Especially in…

USA Jessica Federer, advisor at Hugo Health and one of the speakers at the upcoming FT US Pharma and Biotech Summit, discusses some of the key trends shaping the US pharma market, her predictions for the next year, and recent developments for women in pharma.   Recently, we have witnessed some…

Spain Spanish pharma is performing well-above other industries in terms of the percentage of women it employs in leadership positions. Spanish-native Belén Garijo,  global CEO of Merck Healthcare since January 2015, is at the forefront of this trend, flying the flag for both Spain as a whole as well as the…