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Pharma Biopharmaceutical logistics leader World Courier strives to understand their clients’ needs as early as possible, and the Italian affiliate has gone to unusual lengths, including joining the Italian biotech association, to study the developments emerging at the industry level together with other stakeholders. What have been the main changes in…

Pharma A physician sending off a quick update to a patient via smartphone; a medical caretaker receiving an alert message that a patient’s medical device requires immediate attention. These are no longer hypothetical ideas of healthcare in the distant future, but very real innovations currently being rolled out and integrated across…

Pharma Soneas MD Jozsef Repasi discusses the shift back towards Central and Eastern Europe for contract manufacturing services, the company’s growth since separating from Ubichem, and his ambitions for Soneas to become a fully integrated, end-to-end service provider. As an introduction for our readers, can you please shed some insight into…

Pharma While the Italian clinical research community works to an excellent standard of quality, and is relatively competitive in terms of costs, regulatory differences with the rest of Europe pose significant challenges. Mariapia Cirenei and Stefano Marini, president of AICRO and EUCROF respectively, discuss these current challenges, and how the new…

Pharma AmCham Hungary, one of the largest American Chambers of Commerce in Central and Eastern Europe, discusses their advocacy efforts, particularly highlighting the chamber’s recently established Healthy Nation Policy Task Force and its aim to positively shape the current and future state of healthcare in Hungary. Can you please describe for…

Pharma While assessing patient perspectives in comprehensive drug and treatment analyses may sound like a contemporary issue, the Mapi Group has been a pioneer in the practice for over forty years. Mapi Chairman Bernard Jambon explains the importance of patient incorporation in drug and therapy evaluation and his ambitions to expand…

Pharma Lyonbiopole was established in 2005 as a cluster designed to support the local business community focused on infectious diseases and microbiology. Philippe Archinard, the Biopole’s president, traces the evolution of the cluster over the last decade while underscoring the critical importance of transparency and collaboration between government, industry and academia.…

Pharma GEODIS MD Stéphanie Hervé speaks about the company’s consolidated pharmaceutical logistics market with the 2011 acquisition of pre-wholesaler Pharmalog as well as the recent acquisition of OHL in the United States, matching their ongoing ambition in the field of healthcare to maintain all requirements of quality, synergy of logistics expertise,…

Pharma Mr Kimelfeld and Ms Labat run us through the exceptional history of Lyon and the region in the life sciences field, how Lyon is considered to be the birthplace of bio industries in France, and why life sciences will remain an economic driving force of the local economy. Could you…

Pharma Zentiva is part of the generics business of the Sanofi group and an important player in the European market. Founded in the Czech Republic, it currently operates in fifty markets around the world. The Senior Vice President and Head of Sanofi Generics and the MCO Coordinator of Sanofi Group Czech…

Pharma Gnosis is a fully vertically integrated biotech company specialized in the manufacturing and sales of fermentation raw materials and natural finished products used in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, veterinary, and agricultural industries. The business development director shares the company’s future plans to strengthen its international footprint. Given your experience, what…

Pharma The managing director of CSL Behring Hungary, Attila Lukács, discusses the company’s recent establishment in Hungary, the strategic benefits the country offers, as well as his experience starting an affiliate from scratch. He also shares his thoughts on the recent expansion of CSL Plasma in Hungary and his vision for…