India Multinational life science firms have been present in India for decades. However, they have often eschewed bringing their latest products to a country that has long prioritised affordability above innovation. Now though, as India’s GDP and market value soar and the policy environment shifts towards prioritising the domestic development of…
Portugal After achieving the highest sales figures in the affiliate’s history in 2023, general manager of Teva Pharmaceuticals Portugal Marta Gonzalez Casal outlines the restructuring efforts that have taken place in Portugal to strengthen its commercial operations. She also reviews the company’s shift towards innovation and the challenges of Teva’s hospital…
India Mohal Sarabhai, managing director of Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises Limited (ASE) on transforming his family’s failing century-old business and creating new companies beneath the ASE Holdings umbrella, including a joint venture with Co-Diagnostics, CoSara Diagnostics, that span areas from diagnostics to APIs. He highlights CoSara Diagnostics’ tuberculosis (TB) and human papillomavirus…
Portugal The Portuguese Association of Hospital Pharmacists (APFH) is dedicated to the education and training of over 1000 hospital pharmacists; essential members of the multidisciplinary teams needed to tackle serious illnesses in the hospital setting. APFH President Patricia Cavaco outlines how her organisation attempts to elevate the role of hospital pharmacists…
India Dr Arunish Chawla details the policy strategies underlying the explosive prospected growth of India’s pharmaceutical sector to USD 120-150 billion by 2030, including rigorous adherence to international quality standards. Highlighting regulatory reforms and India’s nuanced stance on intellectual property, Dr Chawla envisions India as a balanced player in healthcare across…
Belgium Belgium, one of Europe’s most important countries for biopharmaceutical production and R&D, assumed presidency of the Council of the European Union on the first of January. As part of its Presidency Programme, Belgium has highlighted health as one of its 14 focus areas, with the hope of strengthening the three…
Turkey A roundup of the biggest pharma and healthcare stories from Turkey including the investigation of 19 pharma companies by the country’s competition watchdog; Gen Pharma Caucasus Manufacturing’s new plant in Azerbaijan; drug shortages resulting from a newly adopted currency-indexed medication supply system, and the surge in upper respiratory tract infections…
India Managing director & CEO of Ferring India, Sudheendra Kulkarni, whose responsibilities have grown to cover the entire 10-country South Asia & ASEAN cluster, speaks about Ferring’s Indian footprint, which includes local API production and product development, and the 18-20 percent growth the affiliate saw in 2023. He discusses the relevance…
Denmark After transitioning from a fledgling biotech to a mature commercial-stage company on the back of its first approval, Zealand Pharma was hit with the challenges of commercialisation and the disappointing sales of its severe hypoglycemia treatment, Zegalogue. As a result, in 2022, the Danish firm did an about face, sacked…
India Suresh Pattathil wears two hats within India’s vast pharma ecosystem. Not only is he responsible for managing AbbVie India as its Managing Director and GM, he also advocates for broader pharma interests as president of the Organization of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI). He speaks about India’s goal of fostering…
Brazil The latest pharma news from Brazil, including the partnership between Biophytis and Innovation Solutions Pharma; Merck’s 100 years in Brazil; Eurofarma’s USD 100 million biotech investment, and GSK’s green light from ANVISA. Biophytis and Innovation Solutions Pharma Sign a Partnership Agreement to Accelerate Market Access for Sarconeos in Brazil…
MENA With a healthcare system marked by both progress and difficulties due to the country’s economic overreliance on the oil and gas sector and its recent political instability, Algeria, is the second largest pharma market on the African continent. Recent reforms have also sped up drug approvals and are turning the…
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