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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 Harnessing the power of big data and the Internet, myTomorrows is working to help patients in need to access treatments that would otherwise not be available outside of a clinical trial. CEO Ronald Brus discusses the workings of this unique and disruptive company. As an introduction, given your wealth of experience in…

Pharma The CSO and COO of BioNovion talk about the company’s recent acquisition by US-based biotech Aduro. BioNovion is a Dutch biopharma specialized in immune oncology antibody discovery. Immunotherapy has become a clinical reality as an effective approach to treat advanced cancer and BioNovion plans to keep leveraging the fruitful collaboration with top-notch research centers…

Pharma Stem cell technology can play a key role in improving the drug discovery process. The CEO of Pluriomics, a biotech company focused on development of fully functional human assay systems for use in drug discovery and development, explains the vision behind the creation of the company as well as the…

Pharma “Egypt will become the largest market for pharmaceuticals within the region in the next three years”; Ahsraf Elkhouly, Executive Director the Egyptian Society for Pharmaceutical Research (ESPR), highlights Egypt’s untapped potential and explains the challenges currently being overcome in Egypt’s pharmaceutical sector. What makes Egypt the ‘go to’ market in…

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…

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 The managing director of Southern Medical, Malan de Villiers illustrates the sheer diversity of the company’s current activities and portfolio within South Africa as a leading implant devices company, while depicting his vision on the South African medical device market. He also reveals the competitive and regulatory challenges in the…

Pharma Stem cell therapy holds the promise to treat diseases for which there are currently no or only limited therapeutic options. Christine Mummery, Professor of Developmental Biology and Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at the Leiden University Medical Center, discusses how academia and industry can work together to…