Medical Devices J. De Ruyter ‘Toto’ C Oroceo, President & General Manager of Delex Pharma International, talks about the company’s efforts at making pharmaceutical products in the Philippines more affordable to all levels of society, not just the upper class, and further discusses the motivation for the switch from medical devices to…
Generics Thelma Tobias–Go, President of the Philippine Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Scheele Laboartories, and Ed Ocampo, COO and Vice President of Scheele Laboratories, discuss the implications of the changing pharmaceutical landscape, and how far the country still remains from universal healthcare coverage. How have you seen the pharmaceutical…
Array In Taiwan, biotech is finally booming, and more and more of the companies benefitting from this boom are listing on the Gre Tai Securities Market (GTSM), built with small to medium enterprises in mind, and tailored for companies that are part of emerging industries. But are these companies overvalued, and…
City Pharmacy Mohamed Kouta, General Manager of City Pharmacy, discusses the company’s key strengths while delving into the market’s major weaknesses and how they will affect the future of City Pharmacy. City Pharmacy has been around for quite a while now. What is one of its strong points? Dr. Adbulrahman Al Mahmeed,…
Generics Executive Director, Teodoro B. Padilla, and Reiner W. Gloor, Adviser of Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) argue that certain government initiatives, like discounted prices for senior citizens and students without financing them, put a perilous amount of pressure on the sector, and the necessity of raising awareness…
liposome A 2006 article in CommonWealth Magazine detailing the genesis of this company reported that TLC had managed to “break out from the typical dilemma of ordinary biotech firms—to either engage in low cost, high competition generic drug manufacturing or expensive, time-consuming new drug development—by opening up a third road of…
Biomedical The chairman of Taipei Medical University (TMU) discusses the key challenges TMU has faced over the years, how these challenges will continue to affect the future, and what international accreditation will mean for the collaboration of TMU with international pharmaceutical companies. Taipei Medical University (TMU) has a long history in…
investment In the first of this two-part interview, the chairperson of UBI and UBI Asia explains the work that her company has done to improve the landscape for Taiwanese pharma and biotech companies over the last fifteen years, and goes in-depth into the company’s innovative pipeline, including UBI’s possible HIV cure.…
drug development BIOTECanada is the national trade association for Canada’s biotech industry. Andrew Casey, the group’s CEO, discusses the impact of IP regulation on emerging biotech companies, incentives for developing the sector on a national level, and offers perspectives on tax policy and its impact on drug development. How does BIOTECanada actively…
government relations With a Master’s Degree in Marketing Science from the University of Leicester and a Degree in Management Information Systems from Université du Québec à Montréal Jacques Dessurealt has had a fruitful career in the pharmaceutical industry with some of the biggest names like Bristol Myer-Squibb and Novartis. He talks with…
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