Portugal Pfizer holds a prominent position in Portugal’s pharmaceutical landscape, especially in the hospital business and for COVID-19-related products, with the emphasis now on sustainable growth post-COVID. Paulo Teixeira, a 26-year pharma industry veteran, lays out his strategy for the affiliate and highlights some of the key challenges in Portugal’s healthcare…
Portugal Health Cluster Portugal is currently spearheading a EUR 90 million EU post-COVID Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) project in Portugal focused on smart health, secondary use of data, and clinical trials. Executive Director Joaquim Cunha highlights the ways in which COVID acted as a catalyst for healthcare transformation more broadly,…
Portugal Portugal boasts a well-developed universal healthcare system and saw healthcare spending increase by 6.2 percent annually between 2016 and 2021, according to the OECD. However, the representatives of innovative medicines manufacturers embedded in the country are keen to point out that access to the latest drugs remains a big issue…
Portugal Speaking to PharmaBoardroom as Janseen is rebranding as Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, managing director for Portugal, Filipa Mota e Costa, discusses the affiliate’s expanded local footprint and its ranking as the number one pharmaceutical company in the country. She also explains Portugal’s market access progress, including the consolidation of…
India Pratima Reddy, GM at Merck Healthcare India reviews the importance of Merck’s Indian affiliate, discusses the recent reforms that have contributed both to improving patient access and to fostering foreign investments and innovation, and explains the representation of Merck’s portfolio in the country, and how the company navigates the local…
Brazil The latest pharma news from Brazil, including the partnership between Biophytis and Innovation Solutions Pharma; Merck’s 100 years in Brazil; Eurofarma’s USD 100 million biotech investment, and GSK’s green light from ANVISA. Biophytis and Innovation Solutions Pharma Sign a Partnership Agreement to Accelerate Market Access for Sarconeos in Brazil…
India The Indian pharma industry has demonstrated spectacular growth based on its strength as a global generics manufacturer. Yet Indian pharma is not merely resting on its laurels. After shining through the COVID-19 pandemic and despite recent quality issues, the country’s pharmaceutical sector is looking to refocus its efforts on innovation…
India India’s pharma industry has big dreams. At the recent Annual Summit of Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) the nation’s policymakers, academicians, industry leaders, innovators, and scientists gathered to set out their industry’s trajectory up to 2047. Based on discussions at the conference and a comprehensive new OPPI report,…
Hong Kong Although well-established as Asia’s leading financial services and trading hub, Hong Kong has never truly been globally competitive in the innovation and technology space, despite piecemeal initiatives to bolster its standing in the field. However, with the publication of a comprehensive new Innovation and Technology Development Blueprint, the time might…
Morocco Pierre Fabre has been present in the Moroccan market for nearly 40 years. Pierre Behnam, the company’s director for Africa, Middle-East and Türkiye discusses its strategy for bringing innovation and targeted therapies to patients in Morocco. I am confident that over time, with joint work between innovators and health…
China After four years away, Brendan Shaw recently returned to China to attend the ChinaBio Innovation and Investment Conference in Suzhou. Although geopolitical tensions, the fallout from COVID-19, and local market challenges have dampened stakeholder optimism around China somewhat in the last few years, Shaw feels that the country still has…
Morocco A highly experienced stalwart of the North African pharma industry, Amine Sekhri today heads up AstraZeneca’s operations in Morocco. In his latest PharmaBoardroom conversation, Sekhri shares his delight at the positive healthcare transformations taking place across Morocco and Africa, gives his insight into the market access landscape for AstraZeneca’s most…
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