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Hungary Preventive healthcare and health literacy are core issues in Hungary that, if left unaddressed, may hinder the country’s ability to push its health agenda forward and create a more sustainable system.   According to the OECD, life expectancy at birth in Hungary was 75.6 years in 2014, well below the…

Healthcare In part two of a two-part interview (read part one here), Mikel Arriola of the IMSS discusses the strategic roadmap IMSS will follow under his tenure with regards to innovation access and chronic disease prevention, as well as his approach to the upcoming implementation of exchanges of services among the…

Pharma Ahead of the imminent acquisition of Baxalta by Shire, country managing director Italy Fabio Andreola shares his perspective on the rare-disease environment in Italy and how Baxalta will contribute to making the new combined company the undisputed leader in the treatment of rare diseases. How would you assess the Italian…

Pharma Shire Italy’s Francesco Scopesi discusses innovative medicine, rare diseases, growth drivers, global strategy, and the new trend of home care. Shire is today one of the leading biotechs delivering innovative medicines to patients with rare diseases and other specialty conditions. Could you please start by describing the company’s engagement with…

Pharma Eclectic demographics, rapid patient recruitment, and a burgeoning population with a gradient of disease profiles—these seem to be the fundamentals truly driving growth in South Africa’s clinical trial industry. However, without the presence of proper mechanisms to arbitrate between regulators and researchers, the sustained growth of this industry may very…

Pharma LEO Pharma is expanding its global presence and continuing its leading role in the number of skin disease patients treated and in thrombosis care. Head of the company’s French affiliate, the largest globally, Mr. Guillaume Clement shares his perspective on the company’s new initiatives in efforts to meet ambitious future…

Pharma Anne-Marie Noir discusses footcare, Laboratoires Asepta’s corporate values, the strategic development behind their innovative brand, and the company’s positioning in Monaco. She also discusses her family’s legacy in the business and her influence as a powerful woman in a male-dominated industry. Laboratories Asepta has been a very successful company in…

Pharma Sobi is a leading integrated biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative therapies and services to improve the lives of rare disease patients and their families. Karel Fol, the country manager for Benelux shares the plans of the company for the Netherlands and Benelux, how Sobi is transforming its product portfolio,…

Pharma Floris Van Haselen, Business Development Director Europe for O&M Movianto, one of the rare logistics companies to be fully specialized and to only operate in the healthcare sector, explains how the company wants to help its customers bring their products closer to the “Point of Care” thanks to its flexibility and expertise. With…

Pharma Finding success in the shadows of Big Pharma and large research facilities, CleveXel serves as a bridge in the industry, specializing on selecting promising molecules for investment, and developing them for the CNS market, and especially Parkinson disease. Christian Bloy shares his entrepreneurial spirit and the vision for CleveXel, a…

Pharma Prof. Luigi Naldini, Director of TIGET, discusses the success of the institute and the groundbreaking partnerships it has formed with the pharmaceutical industry, as well as his ambitions for TIGET over the coming years. Prof. Naldini, the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy was set up in 1995 as…

Pharma Patrice Carayon, CEO of Chiesi France, reveals how Chiesi is one of a select few international mid-size pharmaceutical companies in France to have both an R&D and production footprint to accompany its commercial activities; how they will look to continue to establish themselves in their three main areas: respiratory diseases,…