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Meizler Biopharma There is little publicly available information on your personal history and the founding of Meizler. Can you share that story for our readers? Everybody has a story – unless they’re second generation, of course! I am an architect by training. Before entering the pharmaceutical industry I owned an engineering and…

Panacea Biotec The Indian biotechnology sector is quite particular. In spite of its young age, the industry has grown significantly in a very short time. In your view, where does the Indian biotech sector stand today within an international context? Indian biotech companies, in particular in the vaccines industry, would be among…

Crown Bioscience Hu Jintao recently announced his ambitions for China to be “an innovative country” by 2020? Could you speak to the likelihood of achieving this in terms of biotechnology as you see it? In the biotech area, China has come a long way. I got my college undergraduate degree in China…

Biofarma Turkey Mr Sözeri, Pharmaceutical Executive’s readers are keen to discover, through our reports, prominent industry personalities, and they like to hear their stories. You have an outstanding career, having worked for both international and local giants – Deva, Abdi Ibrahim, Actavis, Astra Zeneca…- Can you tell us a little bit more…

SinoBioway Group Could you provide us with an introduction to the company and an overview of operations from the company’s founding through to your position today as a leading biotech company in China? The company’s development can be divided into three phases. The first stage ranges from the company’s establishment up till…

Alliance of Bio-Box Outsourcing China Please introduce to our readers the general situation and driving force behind the creation of the Beijing Pharma and Biotech Center and its core mandate? Established in 1996, BPBC is an affiliated agency of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and serves as a professional service organization for the…

Biotech Pharmaceutical Co Ltd Could you please introduce the history and main characteristics of Biotech Pharmaceutical? Biotech Pharmaceutical was established in the year 2000, so we are a relatively young company for biopharmaceutical products by Chinese standards. However, we were the first company in China to discover, develop, manufacture and market monoclonal antibodies. Before…

BioDuro You’ve run a number of life sciences companies now, but before that you started Telephia, an information services provider to the wireless industry. How did you make the jump to the healthcare industry? I worked in life sciences prior to Telephia, including Genta and another firm that later merged into…

China Medicinal Biotech Association (CMBA) Could you please give us a brief introduction on CMBA? First and most obviously for new arrivals to our office, since 2011 we have changed locations, making it more convenient for companies to come here and benefit from the opportunities we can provide our members. CMBA’s membership now totals 205…

Alliance of Bio-Box Outsourcing China Could you please give a brief introduction to the ABO and its history? ABO was established in 2005. The CRO business emerged in 2000 in China, and provided services for medicine factories; however, these CRO companies were small as individuals. As a result, they were gathered together and ABO was…

Biogen Idec - China You have been here in China for about a year. What were your assumptions about China before you arrived and were things more or less what you thought they would be or were you surprised about the reality on the ground? We conducted extensive research and scouting before setting up…

HUYA Bioscience International - China Your business is very much relationship based here in China. You’ve now established a number of relationships with institutes, universities and companies, but I can imagine that breaking into this market and building those relationships was a challenge. How did you grow this business in the early days? The early…