Tagged with Europe

Pharma Dr. Anna Maria Porrini, President of Boehringer Ingelheim Italy shares her vision for the company, how she intends to achieve it and where she sees opportunities for the company’s success in the market. Dr. Porrini, since we last spoke in 2009, Boehringer Ingelheim Italy has weathered the crisis and emerged…

Pharma Antonino Reale, who has managed Daiichi-Sankyo Italy for the last 12 years, explains the reasoning and strategy behind the company’s almost total restructuring in 2013, including how this has given birth to a new, more agile organization with high engagement amongst its employees, as well as where he believes the…

pharma With almost thirty years of experience in the life sciences sector, local Dutch consultancy firm Baggerman Farma Consult offers a wide portfolio of services to its clients in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry to meet all of their regulatory needs. Kees Baggerman, CEO and founder, highlights the new Gateway…

Pharma The president of HAS sheds light on the seemingly complex French healthcare system, explains HAS’ role within that context and provides an honest assessment of the system’s advantages and flaws. He also discusses the issues of maintaining the sustainability of the French healthcare budget and the importance of increasing European…

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 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 Massimo Scaccabarozzi, President of Farmindustria, talks about the potential of the pharmaceutical industry in Italy, the changes which need implementing to realize that potential and his vision for the industry’s future. Massimo, first of all congratulations on your third term as President of Farmindustria. What has been you proudest achievement…

Pharma Multinationals have struggled to adapt their Romanian strategies, but the local production sector appears to be flourishing. Much of this impetus relates directly to EU accession and the harmonization of manufacturing standards. “Initially, it was difficult to enact the transition, because the authorities handed us strict deadlines to make ourselves…

Romania No one can accuse the Romanian government of being lethargic when it comes to healthcare reform. After an unprecedented seven years of zero new molecules being admitted to the state reimbursement list, the pharma industry has suddenly been subjected to a whirlwind of radical refashioning and legislatory upheaval. “The industry…