Tagged with BioPharm

Pharma Over the past few years BMS has consolidated its footprint in Puerto Rico to transform the island into a manufacturing hub for both biopharma and pharmaceuticals. The plant manager of the oral solid Humacao plant discusses the current challenges the site is facing as well as the company’s future development…

pharma Ileana Quiñones, president and general manager of iPR-AstraZeneca, discusses the clear strategy of the affiliate in being a leading manufacturer in Puerto Rico and the steps necessary to ensure their place in the country and within the AstraZeneca organization. Where is AstraZeneca focused today and how does the Puerto Rican…

manufacturing The managing director of Ejder Kimya, Pervin Ejder explains how the landscape for API and raw materials suppliers has evolved in Turkey, and how the company has pivoted into more value added and total packaged solutions to accommodate changing market dynamics. As an introduction for our readers, Pervin, can you…

government PharmaBoardroom met the Secretary General of the Thai FDA and the Senior Expert on Pharmaceutical Standards at the FDA. They explained the FDA’s role in Thailand’s pharma market, what the organization is doing for Thai copyright rights, how it is promoting international investment and integration within the ASEAN Economic Community. Please introduce…

R&D Pfizer Turkey has taken a strong supporting role in Turkey’s current strategic development plan by localizing the production of their Prix Galien winning Prevnar vaccine. Country Manager Elif Aral discusses this facility’s role as a role model in the industry, and how the country can improve investment incentives to better…

CEO Talk In the second part of this two-part interview, the chairman of TTY looks back at his experiences in the Taiwanese market, and assess what could have been done differently with his company. He also offers advice to the next generation of Taiwanese pharmaceutical companies. To read the first part of…

Biopharmaceutical Kevin Leshuk, Vice-President and General Manager of Celgene in Canada, offers his critique of the Canadian reimbursement and approval process as well as the advantages his affiliate enjoys in specialty pharma using Canada’s strong clinical base. What do Canadian biopharmaceutical companies offer as a competitive edge? I believe we have…

Biopharmaceutical Hervé Lilliu, General Manager of UCB Canada, describes Canada’s need to support the global pharma-ceutical industry rather than vice versa, and highlights examples of ways in which Canada’s slumbering R&D investment levels can be brought back to the country. What was your initial mandate upon arriving at UCB and what…

Biopharmaceuticals Over the past decade since its founding, what are some of the highlights in the transformation of Taiwan Advance Bio-Pharmaceutical Inc. (TABP) into a well established company? TABP was founded in 2000 as a spinoff of the Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB). The DCB was established in 1984 to support…

Generics In the first part of this two-part interview, the Chairman of TTY Biopharm considers the success of his long-term strategy to streamline TTY’s portfolio and focus on the company’s strengths, and talks about the opportunities in Asia for companies that have followed a similar path to TTY. To read the…

Meizler Biopharma There is little publicly available information on your personal history and the founding of Meizler. Can you share that story for our readers? Everybody has a story – unless they’re second generation, of course! I am an architect by training. Before entering the pharmaceutical industry I owned an engineering and…

Biopharmaceutical investments of RVC (RVC BioFund) Biofund is an independent spin-off of the broader Russian Venture Capital organization. What is the working relationship and synergy between these agencies, and what are the market conditions that have necessitated the creation of Biofund? Biofund was created on January 24th, 2011. There are two stakeholders in the creation of…