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Merck Asanga Halangoda, Director of Life Science at Merck Philippines, discusses the company’s impressive recent market performance, the importance of innovation in maintaining product pipeline, and the bright future of the affiliate’s role in the company’s emerging market portfolio. As an introduction to our readers, could you please give us an…

Biotech Ronald Scott, CEO of Basilea, a biotech company that was spun out of Roche in 2000, talks about launching its first two products, Zevtera and Cresemba; the milestone agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop Zevtera for the US market; and about the company’s partnering…

Ireland Noel Heaney, general manager of BMS Biologics Ireland, provides an overview of BMS in Ireland, its exciting new USD 900 million biologics facility in Cruiserath, their innovative HR programs and his five-year-vision for BMS Biologics in Ireland. BMS has a strong heritage in Ireland dating back to 1964 when it…

Healthcare Noel Lantin, President of Medicomm Pacific, discusses the company’s evolution from providing medical publishing information exclusively to healthcare professionals to now patients, pharmaceutical companies and others across the value chain. He also discusses the company’s innovative website, as well as future mobile application plans, and how they are tools to…

Hungary Hungary’s medicinal biotech companies are clustered in the country’s four major university towns: Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged and Pécs, with the majority basing themselves in the capital, Budapest. Click here to read more articles and interviews from Hungary

Pharma Singapore, though conscious of its limitations, has been able to leverage its key assets of location, infrastructure and local talent in order to become the business hub for the entire region, with pharma and biotech as key components in its success. Singapore is … an attractive investment destination, especially for the…

Pharma With nearly €4 billion of capital investment in large molecule manufacturing underway, Ireland’s strategy to become a premier destination for biologics FDI has proven to be successful, according to BioPharmaChem Ireland director Matt Moran. Yet, Ireland today is much more than a manufacturing hub, and is well on its way to…

Biotech The chairman of BioSingapore, Dr. Siew Hwa Ong, discusses the opportunities and challenges facing biotech SMEs in Singapore, government efforts to enhance the business environment for these SMEs, and facilitating more collaboration between companies as the most prominent pathway for future development. Could you please introduce yourself to our international…

Pharma The executive director of A*STAR’s Biomedical Research Council, Dr. Benjamin Seet highlights several remarkable milestones that the organization has been able to achieve since its inception, while underscoring how cultivating deep levels of expertise will carry Singapore’s biomedical sciences sector into its next phase of development. In a few words,…

Pharma Switzerland’s pharma industry is moving beyond staid conservatism and embracing risk in order to compete internationally and foster a new culture of innovation. Switzerland is frequently considered one of the most entrepreneurial and competitive countries in the world. As Thomas Cunei, secretary general of Interpharma, the association that represents 92…

Pharma Patricia Ostrosky, general director of the Institute of Biomedical Research in Mexico, details current research subjects and calls for greater collaboration between Mexican universities and the pharmaceutical industry to bring more life-changing innovation to patients. Could you please provide our readers with a general overview of the Institute of Biomedical…

Pharma Founded in 2011, APC has grown to be the largest process development company in Ireland. It is the largest employer of PhD Chemical Engineers nationally, is partners with the largest pharma and biotech companies globally, and over 80% of the company’s revenue is export driven. Since starting APC in 2011, what have been…