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Saudi Arabia Since joining Moderna as its first ex-US commercial employee in Spring 2020, Dan Staner has played a leading role in developing what is now one of the world’s top 20 biggest pharma companies. Speaking exclusively to PharmaBoardroom, Staner describes how Moderna has been able to fashion a new, optimised company…

USA During a panel discussion at the BIO International Convention, Peter Marks, director of the US FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) discussed the positive regulatory outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the backlogs it created and the challenges of carrying the lessons learned forward.   At…

China A roundup of some of the biggest pharma and biotech news from China including the approval of two domestically developed COVID treatments; Daewoong’s idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis licensing deal, Roche’s gastric cancer partnership with CARsgen; Sino Biopharm’s continued attempt to buyout of F-star Therapeutics and Takeda’s deal with Hutchmed for a…

China A roundup of some of the biggest healthcare and pharma news from China including the exclusion of Pfizer’s Paxlovid from the country’s national insurance coverage, CanSino’s promising mRNA booster trial results, WuXi Biologics and GSK’s T-cell engager deal, Biocytogen and Hansoh’s antibody collaboration …   Pfizer CEO rules out generic…

Global Insights from US President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, who served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force at the height of the pandemic, on the end of COVID-19, the danger of China’s recent surge in cases, preparedness for future pandemics, and the misinformation in the US that…

China A roundup of some of the biggest healthcare and pharma news from China, including the country’s struggle with a rampant COVID-19 outbreak and the external concern that surrounds it, China Meheco’s Paxlovid contract, Boston Scientific’s majority stake in Chinese medtech Acotec, Gracell Biotechnologies’ CAR-T therapy phase I trial 100 percent…

South Korea After launching the first Korean COVID-19 vaccine, SKYCovione, SK Bioscience is preparing for its next big milestone, a US subsidiary, with the appointment of two new executives who are already securely anchored in the American life sciences ecosystem: former senior program officer in global health at the Bill & Melinda…

Italy Medtronic’s Michele Perrino, Regional VP North Western Europe & Italy, Cardiovascular Commercial Partnership WE, outlines the company’s change in positioning from medtech to healthcare technology and the central role of Europe in that shift. He also comments on the trend towards centralised hospital purchasing and the company’s ambition to contribute…

South Korea ExoCoBio’s CEO, Byong Seung Cho, went from biotech venture capital to setting up ExoCoBio, a company whose core technology is based on adipose stem-cell derived exosomes for regenerative medicine and medical aesthetics. He walks us through ExoCoBio’s exosome-based finished product line as well as its promising preclinical findings not just…

Global Due to lowered global demand, for the first time, Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are expected to see sales revenues for their COVID-19 vaccines take a major fall in Q2, but sales are expected to bounce back with jabs targeting new variants. According to Airfinity’s recent forecast, revenue for Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine will…

Global With the rise of more transmissible variants and the reduced efficacy of outpatient monoclonal antibody therapies, the market for oral antivirals is expected to climb to new heights this year. Pfizer to take the lead, followed by Merck, and possibly, Shionogi. According to Airfinity’s recent COVID-19 treatment revenue forecast, the…

Global At the recent Global Biopharma press briefing on COVID-19, held by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), industry leaders took on the issue of vaccine inequity, challenging the view that intellectual property waivers could be the answer. 13.7 billion doses of vaccines have been delivered and 11…