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Switzerland Animal testing for medicinal purposes is back under the spotlight in Switzerland after a petition against the practice filed in Bern managed to generate tens of thousands of signatures. Even more ominously, a popular initiative emanating from the Canton of St Gallen is still pending that proposes an outright ban…

Diagnostics Young-Shik Cho, chairman of SD Biosensor, recounts his journey leading diagnostics companies and expanding their offerings through R&D.  Cho also compares the challenges of the Chinese market with the potential in the Indian market and offers his opinion on the role of diagnostics in post Covid-19 healthcare.   There is…

Coronavirus Over the past few years, innovative Swiss giant Roche has combined its position as the world’s number 1 biotech company and its strength in in vitro diagnostics to brand itself as the frontrunner in personalized healthcare. In 2012, CEO Severin Schwan set the ambitious target of pairing more than 60…

Taiwan Jenny Chao and Aries Chang of BiotechTS, introduce the company as a leading one-stop-service provider for laboratory testing and explain its current transition from the food and safety space to being focused on biomedical and pharmaceutical testing.   Precision medicine is absolutely a growing trend in Taiwan where we see…

Taiwan Dr. Wen-cherng Tsai, founder and chairman of SuperLab, explains the company’s unique business model as the only third-party fair testing organization and pre-clinical CRO across the medical, chemical and biological related fields. Dr. Tsai goes on to highlight SuperLab’s competitive offering and top-tier accreditation as a premier service partner in…

Serbia Siniša D. Vučinić, the brains behind Aqualab Plus Systems, which holds laboratories across Serbia that offer a variety of sophisticated blood tests specifically targeted at the elderly, pregnant women and children 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, tells the story of the creation of Aqualab, explains their phenomenal…

pharma The Netherlands boasts a strong service sector for the life science industries locally and globally. Sinensis Life Sciences CEO, Ruud Santing, discusses his company’s history and its offering that covers the whole range of pharmaceutical testing and of small-scale manufacturing of clinical trial materials. Sinensis Life Sciences was founded in…

Clinical trials The President & CEO of Vita Genomics talks about the advantages that genomic testing offer both to sick and healthy patients, as well as the opportunities to catalogue the science behind Traditional Chinese Medicine. What is the vision behind Vita Genomics? Vita Genomics was founded in 2001. At the time,…