Merits Health Products Co. LTD The Vice President of Merits Health Products discusses the company’s main opportunities and challenges of the past 25 years, which countries are among its top buyers and its future plans of ranking in the top three worldwide in health products manufacturing. Merits Health Products Co. LTD has an interesting history…
Biopharmaceuticals Over the past decade since its founding, what are some of the highlights in the transformation of Taiwan Advance Bio-Pharmaceutical Inc. (TABP) into a well established company? TABP was founded in 2000 as a spinoff of the Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB). The DCB was established in 1984 to support…
GGD The co-managing partner of one of Canada’s leading IP law firms discusses the landscape for intellectual property in the pharmaceutical industry in Canada today, the legislative challenges facing his clients, and the incentive schemes in place to bring innovation to Canada. What have you seen as the key trends of…
Biotechnology The CEO of Bellus Health outlines his strategy since 2010 to change the focus of the company from Alzheimer’s to a niche disease, AA amyloidosis, as well as the strategic shift towards becoming a semi-virtual model company. He also considers the importance of creating global links to capital as a…
ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. Mr. Pierre Laurin is a senior executive with 28 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Involved in the development of ProMetic’s platform technology since 1989, Mr. Laurin founded ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. in 1994. As Chairman until March, 2011 and President and CEO of the Corporation since…
government relations With a Master’s Degree in Marketing Science from the University of Leicester and a Degree in Management Information Systems from Université du Québec à Montréal Jacques Dessurealt has had a fruitful career in the pharmaceutical industry with some of the biggest names like Bristol Myer-Squibb and Novartis. He talks with…
Human Resources Teresa Bitetti has a long history with BMS, spanning 3 decades in which she rose up the ranks starting from Senior Director of Abilify Marketing before becoming Sales Vice President of CNS until she reached her current position of President and General Manager of BMS Canada. Today she shares with…
EndoCeutics Dr. Fernand Labrie, long before becoming CEO of EndoCeutics, discovered and developed medical castration with GnRH agonists, a breakthrough treatment that quickly replaced surgical castration back in the early 1980s. Along with other discoveries, he founded EndoResearch in 1985 to further his research. After billions in revenue from treatments developed…
Spar Todopromo Mexico In 2011, Todopromo decided to join forces with Spar, an American company specialized in merchandising and points of sale solutions. After remaining for many years as a self-run company, how did you experience this new joint venture? It has been great and we are proud to be part of a…
Pronaos Dr. Sommermeyer, you’ve spent approximately two decades working for pharmaceutical companies throughout Europe. From a personal standpoint, why did you decide to leave the industry and found a consultancy? I started my career in research, and then moved to marketing and strategic planning. After ten years spent in headquarter functions,…
Promomed Mr Vandiest, it’s always a pleasure for us to interview the entrepreneurs behind the businesses we meet. Can you tell us more about the vision behind the creation of Promomed? Since its foundation, Promomed has been focused on providing outsourced sales representative solutions for its clients. Certainly, this is by…
Association of Producers of generic medicines in Romania (APMGR) APMGR is obviously a rather young association that has only really been active since about a year now. Can you first comment on the timing that the Association was called into life? The timing has been quite good, as the generics industry is currently experiencing a strong momentum. Every country,…
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