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Pharma John Fernández van Cleve, Chancellor of UPRM, highlights the institution’s strong expertise in engineering and its application in the pharmaceutical and medical device fields. What are some of UPRM’s main assets? We are very blessed to have the best students in Puerto Rico. UPRM’s admission index is the highest on…

Pharma The Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company (CCE) helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stimulate their business in Puerto Rico and abroad. Frankie Chévere, CCE’s executive director, discusses the successes of the agency since 2013. You came to CCE in 2013; what were the first challenges you had to address…

Pharma The head of pharma for Bayer Southern Africa reveals how South Africa plays a key role in Bayer’s African strategy, with more than 60 percent of the continent’s total sales, how South Africa is increasingly becoming responsible for neighboring countries, acting as the gateway to Africa and how in time…

Pharma The CEO of Pharma Dynamics explains why the company was the perfect match for Lupin, as the fastest growing, and largest independently owned acquirable pharmaceutical business in South Africa, why a strong focus on marketing and sales has been key to their success and reveals how the use of generics…

Pharma The President of Fefis, and the recently elected President of Medicen Paris Region, a Paris-based business cluster, talks about the need to build the future of the French health economy, not on past and current assets but to develop new ones; reveals how there is now a growing awareness of the…

Pharma The director of GEMME reveals how the French generics market is young in comparison to other European countries – where generics were on the market twenty years before they became available in France, how today the French Ministry of Health is sending a clear signal about the importance of generics…

Pharma The chairman of PHARMISA reveals how pharmaceuticals has been designated as one of eight priority sectors of South African Government’s Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP), how South African life expectancy has increased by around eight years over the last decade, placing further strain on the public healthcare system, and why…

Pharma The CEO of Pierre Fabre for South Africa reveals how his focus has been on marketing the company brand locally, why the goal of the company is to develop business in English speaking Africa, with South Africa acting as the hub, and talks about the Pierre Fabre Foundation, a government-recognized…

Pharma The EO of SAMED discusses recent regulations surrounding the medical device industry in South Africa, why South Africa remains the hub and the major gateway to Africa for medical devices and In Vitro Diagnostics and talks about recent focus by government on supporting local manufacturing What have been the main…

Pharma The managing director of UTi Pharma reveals how UTi is no longer just an international forwarding company but covers a broad spectrum of activities; why as global business increases it is only natural that the relative importance of South Africa diminishes; and why as the National Health Initiative develops there…

Pharma The MD of Triclinium Clinical Development discusses how South Africa’s established First and Third World research opportunities and long-established GCP culture have made it a uniquely attractive country for clinical trials; how Triclinium has grown during a challenging decade, emerging as the largest independent home-bred CRO, winning significant preferred provider…

Pharma The country manager for BMS South Africa talks about the company’s first to market strategy, and how BMS has shifted the treatment paradigm for oncology in South Africa. Through our platform, we introduce the leaders of the pharma industry, and their partners to our 95,000 readers around the world. With that in mind, would…