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Pharma Alessandra Modenese Kauffmann, General Manager of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce, shares her insights into the relationship between Italy and Switzerland, the Chamber’s efforts to foster trade between the two countries and the opportunities offered through close collaboration between Swiss and Italian companies. Alessandra, the chamber has been active in…

Pharma Manfred Rüdiger (MR), Robbert Van Heekeren (RVH) and Jeroen Rovers (JR), respectively CEO, CFO and CMO of Kiadis Pharma, a Dutch biopharmaceutical company focused on cell-based immunotherapy products for the treatment of blood cancers and inherited blood disorders, discuss how the company’s recent IPO will allow them to move forward…

Pharma Mr. Finn Søndergaard, CEO of Intsel Chimos, an independent French laboratory with a long history of expertise in the import of medicines for patients in a therapeutic impasse, highlights Intsel Chimos’ emphasis on innovation and R&D and discusses the promising orphan drug the company is in the process of developing. He…

Pharma Massimiliano Rocchi, Managing Director at Accord Italy shares his view on the story behind Accord’s success in Europe, the key differentiating elements for any generics company in a market with staunch competition, and his strategy for keeping the momentum in Accord Italy’s growth over the next few years. Accord is…

Pharma The president and founder of FSNB Health & Care, a healthcare consultancy, discusses his motivations behind the creation of his company, as well as the challenges and opportunities the pharmaceutical industry in France faces, in the context of his extensive industry experience. After a long and distinguished career in many…

Pharma ALK’s Denis Delval reveals how France is number one in terms of volumes for the group and number two in terms of revenues, just behind Germany; how the four Danes – Novo Nordisk, Leo, Lundbeck and ALK – are good examples of the best pupils in class when it comes…

Pharma Latin America provides a number of opportunities to healthcare and life sciences companies. The Managing Director for the Global Life Sciences and Health Care Industry Group at Deloitte shares his perspective as well as recommendations on how to approach the region. With the largest Latin American economies facing serious economic…

Pharma Bayer broke into the top ten multinationals in Egypt this year, after achieving a remarkable 110 percent growth over the last two years. General manager Hatem Safei discusses the developments that drove this strong expansion, and the overall potential he sees in the healthcare market going forward. What are the…

Pharma The president and CEO of AREVA Med, the medical subsidiary of AREVA Group, the biggest nuclear company in the world, discusses the circumstances that inspired AREVA’s foray into nuclear medicine, one of the most interesting new fields in medicine today. He outlines his company’s philosophy of simplicity and excellence, his…

Pharma The President of Innothera talks about their unique business model, being in both the drug production and compression stockings businesses, how almost 95 percent of their drug production is exported, primarily to emerging countries, and why there is a very hopeful future for medium-sized companies that are ready to embrace…

Pharma Olivier Pilley, French GM of the Swiss-American biotech company with a pioneering computational approach to anti-cancer therapies, presents ARIAD’s fascinating R&D model, his optimistic assessment of the competitiveness of the French clinical research environment as well as his personal motivations for working in a rapidly growing biotech company. ARIAD’s niche is…

pharma The Netherlands boasts a strong service sector for the life science industries locally and globally. Sinensis Life Sciences CEO, Ruud Santing, discusses his company’s history and its offering that covers the whole range of pharmaceutical testing and of small-scale manufacturing of clinical trial materials. Sinensis Life Sciences was founded in…