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Morocco Looking back on 11 years of business experience in Morocco, Jean-Charles Damblin of the country’s French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) is more optimistic than ever about the business opportunities that Morocco presents. Although the USA recently overtook France as Morocco’s largest foreign investor, Damblin suggests that there are…

Morocco Women’s health specialist Versalya enjoyed a resurgent 2022 in Morocco under the leadership of Sofia Lahlou. She explains some of the key trends in the Moroccan women’s health space, how the company is supporting the healthcare transformation underway in the country, and her approach to talent attraction and retention.  …

Morocco As North Africa cluster lead Pfizer veteran Diego Forero heads up Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Algeria in addition to being the country manager for Morocco. He describes the company’s 57-year presence and its local manufacturing site that produces almost 70 percent of Pfizer’s medicines marketed in Morocco as well as…

China A roundup of some of the latest pharma news from China including Pfizer’s first Asia launch of Rimegepant migraine treatment in Hong Kong; Zhifei and GSK’s shingles vaccine deal, and the collaboration between the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Olympus Corporation.   Chinese University of Hong Kong and…

Morocco CEO Mia Lahlou-Filali walks us through Pharma 5’s commitment to “Made in Morocco” generics, an approach that has led the company to represent one third of the country’s generics market. She also explains the family-owned firm’s expansion efforts outside of Morocco that include a factory in the Ivory Coast, a…

Morocco Driss Chaoui outlines recent milestones in Afric-Phar’s over 50-year history, including the launch of its first in-house developed generic, and discusses the firm’s unique focus on orphan and rare diseases and the challenges facing the field in Morocco. He also reviews the opportunities presented by the transformation of Morocco’s regulatory…

Global The speed with which Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines were brought forward may have made the mRNA technology behind them appear novel. In fact, the pioneers whose discoveries enabled the creation of these vaccines, recent Nobel prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, had been working on the mRNA and…

Morocco Three years on from his last PharmaBoardroom interview, Karim Lahlou highlights the evolution of Moroccan pharma manufacturer Iberma as it expands its activities from solely in-licensing to developing and selling its own products, growing its global partnership base, and looking to penetrate international markets while leveraging the growing reputation of…

France France’s life sciences industry is falling behind its European neighbours, its growth deeply hampered, the French life sciences think tank G5 Santé claims, by abusive paybacks. While the government has demonstrated its willingness to take steps towards levelling its pricing barometers and in so doing tackle medicine shortages and build…

Australia Richard Day of the University of New South Wales, writing in the October 2023 edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, looks at updates to the health technology assessment (HTA) processes in Australia and New Zealand   In April 2023, the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care launched an independent Health…

Japan Real-world data (RWD) offers the possibility of providing important information to help inform regulatory decision-making. But turning this possibility into reality still depends on the quality and reliability of the data, say J&J’s Yumi Wakabayashi and Vicky Han in October 2023’s DIA Global Forum magazine. With appropriate efforts to ensure…

Morocco Merck Morocco’s Ahmad ALMWAKEH feels that the winds of change are blowing in the right direction across Moroccan healthcare, with a well-defined national strategy in place to expand coverage to more of the population than ever before. Merck is well-placed to support this transition as the market leader in therapeutic…