Tagged with disease

pharma The country president for South Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa at AstraZeneca reveals why AstraZeneca sees Africa as the next frontier within the pharmaceutical industry, how their Research Trust looks to contribute to academic advancement on the continent, with a focus on non-communicable diseases, and how their Healthy Heart Africa program…

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Holland Pharming Group CEO Sijmen de Vries discusses the advantages of his company’s transgenic platform for recombinant protein production, the commercial progress of their lead product Ruconest, and the company’s plans for developing new applications through the platform, including a partnership with the SinoPharm subsidiary SIPI. From a production point of…

R&D Lundbeck Turkey’s managing director discusses CNS and mental illness in Turkey, and their recent development of manufacturing operations in Turkey for their new product. Given this specialization in and deep knowledge of CNS, how would you assess the Turkish medical systems’ ability to handle mental illness? First of all, when…

respiratory disease The country manager of an Italian pharmaceutical firm talks about the evolution of Algerian health needs and what her firm is doing to counter different forms of respiratory disease prevalent in the country. After eighteen years at Chiesi, what have been your main successes to date? On a personal note,…

rare diseases The country manager of a leading German chemical and pharmaceutical company sheds light on her company’s activities in the rare diseases segment and speaks about the multiple benefits of promoting home care and greater patient autonomy. You are known for your medicines against diseases that are often neglected, such as…

biotech The general manager in charge of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean is on board with the corporate mission of doubling Shire’s product sales to USD 10 billion by 2020 and explains how Mexico and the rest of the region will contribute to this achievement. You were appointed head of…

CNS diseases Oscar Parra, general manager at Lundbeck Mexico, explains the seriousness of CNS diseases in increasingly urbanized countries and the impact they can have on the productivity of the Mexican workforce. The last time we met was in 2012. How have central nervous system (CNS) diseases evolved in Mexico over this…

orphan drugs Gabriela Pittis discusses the Argentinian healthcare system’s ability to diagnose, treat, and regulate rare diseases, and the country’s progress in further developing what is already the region’s most comprehensive system in this regard.   Is the Argentinian system able to reliably diagnose and treat rare diseases? “Rare diseases” is a…

Cardiology The president & CEO of CQDM discusses her vision of how CQDM’s activities can have a direct impact on the development of safer and more efficient drugs, and how to bring CQDM to a more globally competitive level. You were appointed as CEO of CQDM about ten months ago. What…