Denmark Danish pharma industry veteran Peter Drøidal highlights how he steered the Danish Novartis affiliate through the COVID-19 pandemic period, the strategy in place to navigate an increasingly challenging market access landscape, and the lessons that can be leveraged from the value-based agreement that Novartis was able to strike with the…
Denmark Peter Huntley of Medicoindustrien, the industry association for Danish medtech, outlines his vision for the industry, including why a shift to broad, value-based pricing will better establish Denmark as a bastion of high quality and high value impact medical devices. [Denmark] has a prosperous future ahead if the divided…
Denmark Per Jørgensen, deputy director of Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet), discusses pandemic management, clinical trial collaborations with private industry, translational research, and the demands that the hospitals of the future will need to adapt to. Big and specialized hospitals in Denmark such as ours are in a unique position to…
Denmark Petter Hartman of the Medicon Valley Alliance, a non-profit membership organisation spanning the Danish-Swedish life science cluster Medicon Valley, introduces the progress of the Alliance from a networking body to today facilitating concrete collaborations between its 300+ members. Hartmann also touches on the MVA’s key focus areas, talent hiring and…
Denmark Since joining Danish neuroscience specialist Lundbeck as its global CEO in 2018, South African Deborah Dunsire has focused on “revitalising and refreshing” the firm’s pipeline, which had seen several failures in the preceding years. In an exclusive recent conversation with PharmaBoardroom, Dunsire explains the strategy she has put in place…
Denmark Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom, Lundbeck’s global CEO Deborah Dunsire describes the progress in the strategy she put in place to “revitalise and refresh” the Danish firm’s pipeline upon taking the role three years ago. Following two recent acquisitions, Lundbeck now has a much broader focus across neuroscience including areas for…
Denmark Industry veteran Patrik Forsell oversees Takeda’s operations in Denmark. Here, Forsell talks through how sizeable shifts in the company’s global portfolio and focus over the past four years have played out at the Danish level, the increasingly challenging market access situation for rare disease treatments in the country, and how…
Denmark. AbbVie In a wide-ranging interview, AbbVie’s Linn Mandahl discusses how the reorganisation of Scandinavian operations back in 2018 has put the company back on a growth trajectory in the region. Mandahl also touches on the challenges and opportunities in terms of portfolio and culture that the Allergan acquisition has brought about;…
Denmark Long established as a premier early launch country for innovative medicines within Europe, the Danish market access system has become more complicated of late as the Danish Medicines Council – the body charged with providing guidance about new medicines for use in the Danish hospital sector – adjusts to the…
Denmark Tore von Würden talks through Amgen Denmark’s focus areas of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, haematology, and oncology, where it hopes not only to provide medicines but also contribute to the overall ecosystem. von Würden also explains the logic and relevance of the company’s M&A activity in Denmark in recent years, highlights…
Denmark Tashia Lentz of Biogen outlines what she sees as an increasingly tough market access environment for new treatments in Denmark and calls for greater stakeholder openness to innovative pricing schemes. Lentz also makes a comparison between the life sciences ecosystems in Sweden, where she spent three years heading up Astellas’…
Denmark MSD’s Catherine Williams, a recent arrival in Copenhagen, gives her first impressions of the Danish healthcare system and pharma market, drawing on experiences in her native UK to compare the two countries’ market access environments for innovative products. Williams also touches on MSD’s sizeable clinical trial footprint in Denmark, the…
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