China Due in part to an increasingly encouraging regulatory environment, China continues to strive for progress in cell and gene therapies (CGT). In fact, according to a 2021 Nature study, CAR T-cell therapy clinical trials in China have accounted for over 50% of registered CGT studies worldwide. Currently, over 200 CAR-T…
South Korea The latest healthcare and pharma news from South Korea, including SK Bioscience’s COVID-19 vaccine, Daewoong’s partnership with AstraZeneca Korea and UCI Therapeutics, Vivozon production halt and GC’s acquistion of US-based CDMO, BioCentriq. SK Bioscience’s COVID-19 vaccine to be tested against Omicron (Korea Biomedical Review) SK Bioscience’s has submitted a biologics…
Asia-Pacific Stewart Campbell, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, West Pharmaceutical Services, highlights how the drug containment and delivery system industry is evolving to meet the rapidly changing needs of Asian biopharma; West’s crucial role in the fight against COVID-19 and how it met surging demands for injectable packaging in…
APAC Drawing on the findings of a recent report launched under the Business Ethics for APEC SMEs Initiative, Thomas Cueni of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) outlines the benefits for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of adopting ethical practices. Cueni highlights some of the key trends that emerged from report, conducted…
Asia-Pacific To cater to Japan and Asia Pacific (JAPAC)’s booming biotech industry, in May 2021 IQVIA expanded its ‘IQVIA Biotech’ brand into the region. Looking ahead to 2022, IQVIA Biotech JAPAC has identified six key trends for emerging biotechs to watch. For a full interview with Senthil Sockalingam, head of IQVIA…
Asia-Pacific Asia has experienced a biotech boom in the past five years. In 2020, almost 50 percent of the region’s clinical trials were led by biotechs and by 2025, biotech-led clinical trials will far exceed those led by Big Pharma, according to IQVIA. However, the region’s biotechs face a myriad of…
Singapore Angeline Ho gives an overview of the patient advocacy landscape in Asia-Pacific, why an Asian model of patient engagement – distinct from those in Europe and the US – needs to be developed, and how Novartis has been working with patients in the region around its CAR-T therapies. It…
Singapore AstraZeneca (AZ)’s country president for Singapore, Vinod Narayanan, outlines the challenges of taking the reins at an affiliate against the backdrop of a pandemic and how the Anglo-Swedish company’s quest for a COVID-19 vaccine has opened up new partnership opportunities in the region. Narayanan also touches on Singapore’s open ecosystem…
Asia-Pacific Writing in the July issue of DIA’s Global Forum magazine Serene Ong and Gaurang Majmudar of clinical trial logistics specialists Marken outline why the shift to decentralised clinical trials brought about by COVID-19 is likely to stay in place post-pandemic. The face of clinical trials has been changing rapidly,…
Asia-Pacific The latest from the pharma industry in Southeast Asia, including underwhelming results from Kalbe Pharma, Indonesia’s largest pharma company; Novavax’s vaccine manufacturing plans in the Philippines; the promising future of cannabis in Thailand; and the first Vietnamese coronavirus vaccine candidate’s Phase III trials. Indonesia’s Kalbe Farma sales underwhelm investors…
Asia-Pacific Writing in the May edition of DIA’s Global Forum magazine, Toshiyoshi Tominaga of the Asia-Pacific Self-Medication Industry (APSMI) looks at the landscape for OTC medicines in the Asia-Pacific region today. Tominaga highlights how, against the backdrop of a drop in formal medical interventions due to COVID-19 infection fears, countries are more than…
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