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Sweden Michelle Werner, country president for AstraZeneca’s Nordics and Baltics region, highlights the company’s strong connections with local stakeholders due to its historic roots and large footprint in Sweden. Werner also discusses how the organization, which employs nearly 7,000 people in the country, plays an integral part in ensuring that patients…

Sweden Martin Tenlen was appointed as the general manager of the Nordics region for CSL Behring, the world’s fifth-largest biotech company, at the start of 2019. He highlights his priorities for leading the local affiliate, improving access to new treatments, leveraging Sweden’s innovation-friendly ecosystem through collaboration and strengthening the company’s leading…

Sweden A relative newcomer to the Nordic countries, Otsuka has successfully built a strong foothold in the region. Pontus Billstam, managing director for the Nordics & Benelux, looks back at the main milestones in the affiliate’s development and explains the importance of the Nordic region for Otsuka as a testbed for…

Korea Industry players – from Big Pharma giants to small local startups – are bringing new, innovative solutions to market in Korea in order to try and solve the country’s diabetes epidemic.   The growing prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes is becoming a global issue. According to Dr Nam Han Cho,…

Taiwan Steve Profit, general manager of Novo Nordisk Taiwan, shares a newcomers’ perspective as a recent transplant to the market from the company’s global office in Denmark. Profit goes on to share his mission to fulfil CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen’s strategy of expanding beyond being a leader of diabetes at the…

Thailand Thailand is becoming an increasingly attractive location for pharma companies to conduct clinical trials, with multinationals such as Novo Nordisk and Boehringer Ingelheim conducting more and more of their global trials in the country.   We are very active in engaging Thai doctors and patients in benefiting from involvement in…

Thailand Diabetes affects more than eight percent of the Thai population, a number that is on the rise, and nearly half of these cases remain undiagnosed. In light of this epidemic, local diabetes associations and multinational pharma companies based in Thailand are coming together to provide awareness, education, and support to…

Thailand John Dawber, vice president and general manager of Novo Nordisk Thailand, offers his first impressions of the Thai market since moving from Japan. Dawber explains the current challenges and areas for improvement in diabetes treatment in Thailand, how the most innovative Novo Nordisk products have propelled the affiliate forward in…

Sweden Niels Abel Bonde, general manager of Novo Nordisk Sweden, explains the strategic significance of the Swedish market as an innovation-driven environment ideal to run pilot launches and real-world studies. He also breaks down the performance of the affiliate in its main therapeutic areas, as well as the positives and negatives…

Sweden Dr Göran A. Ando, former chairman of Novo Nordisk and a Swedish life sciences industry veteran, recently moved back to his home country after over 35 years abroad. He shares his view on Swedish healthcare today, which is striving to continue its strong tradition of collaboration. Although Sweden is struggling…

Spain Rafael Mella, general manager of Nordic Pharma Spain & Portugal, highlights the steps he has taken to set-up the foundations for the company in the Spanish market and how he has overcome the challenges of the fragmented healthcare system. Furthermore, he gives insight into the Nordic’s game-changing Rheumatoid Arthritis product,…

Korea Rana Azfar, vice-president & general manager of Novo Nordisk Korea offers his impressions of the Korean market since moving from Pakistan. Azfar discusses how the most innovative insulin products have propelled Novo Nordisk forward in Korea, and how Novo Nordisk is working with patients and doctors to address the misconceptions…