Tagged with Interviews

pharma Nil Tunaşar, managing partner of Transorient, discusses significance of tracking performance metrics among 3PL providers, the organization’s technology overhaul, and also highlights the type of logistics solutions encompassed under Transorient’s Life Sciences and Biopharma line of business. As an introduction for our readers, Nil, please provide some insight into Transorient’s…

pharma The general manager of Astellas France and president of LEEM, the French Pharmaceutical Companies Association, reveals how the pharmaceutical industry worldwide has to take into account what is a fair price for innovation, the sum of a value price, based on what you are providing for the health of a…

Pharma Miroslav Secerov, VP Sales & Marketing NATEC, explains the choice of Mauritius for NATEC’s headquarters as well as the unique assets that make Mauritius the ideal business location. He also analyses Mauritius’ recent emphasis on development of the life sciences sector and the public-private relationship required to make that a…

Pharma Yves Bur reveals how the motivation behind his political engagement has been to raise awareness around the importance of improving the social security system. Bur also explains why having a real public health policy is another way of combatting the increase in health spending, and how France needs to reach…

Pharma Adv. Leslie Sedibe, CEO of Proudly South African explains how the Proudly South African campaign aims to promote local products and services to ultimately address unemployment, and what his main expectations are for local pharmaceutical manufacturers. Could you please introduce the Proudly South African organization to our readers, and more…

Pharma Michel Dutree, former director general of the Dutch association for pharmaceutical innovators, gives a detailed overview of the changes happening in the Dutch pharmaceutical industry, and the Netherlands’ role at the European level as the “laboratory of Europe.” It’s been four years since your last interview with PBR; what do…

Research Arnaud Lagesse, CEO of GML, the largest company in Mauritius and the third largest company in the Indian Ocean, discusses his company’s successful diversification into the life sciences sector, with the creation of GML Life. The history of GML has always been linked to the development of the Mauritian economy.…

strategic levels Umut Gökalp, managing director of Japan’s Sysmex in Turkey – a company specialising in in-vitro diagnostics – evaluates their approach to developing business opportunities in the Turkish medical device sector. He also describes how the company’s new reagent facility in Germany will help bolster it domestically and regionally. Can you tell us…

regulation Sevi Firat, Founding Partner of Firat Izgi discusses the legal challenges facing pharmaceutical companies looking to penetrate the healthcare market in Turkey, the evolution of the legal landscape and her expectations for the industry’s future. With pricing and regulations as the major challenges facing players within the Turkish pharma and…