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Saudi Arabia Last year, Dimitri Livadas made the unconventional leap from Big Pharma to a local Saudi firm, Saudi Chemical. In conversation, he explains the motivating factors behind this decision, including Saudi Arabia’s vision for the future, the legacy and growth potential of Saudi Chemical, and the unique opportunity to be part…

Saudi Arabia Ismail Shehada explains his decision to join leading Saudi firm Tabuk Pharmaceuticals, influenced by its potential for growth and strategic transformation in alignment with Saudi Vision 2030. He outlines the need to transition from consultancy-driven strategies to business implementation, aligning with the national agenda and achieving market leadership.   As…

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia’s ambitious Vision 2030 economic transformation plan aims at transitioning the Middle East’s largest economy away from an over-reliance on fossil fuels and into a more diversified modern nation. This transition is being felt especially keenly in healthcare, where the Ministry of Health’s functions are shifting with the aim…

Saudi Arabia Prof. Ahmed Aljedai, assistant deputy minister of therapeutic affairs for support services at Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health (MoH) outlines how the Saudi healthcare system is being restructured in line with the country’s Vision 2030 economic transformation programme and the three goals of improving access, improving quality, and improving value.…

Saudi Arabia Looking to diversify its economy while simultaneously improving its healthcare system, Saudi Arabia has been rolling out incentives for international companies to invest in local manufacturing. Here are three trends that the Kingdom hopes will catch the attention of global biopharma and generics investors.   With the aim of creating…

Saudi Arabia Dr Fayad Al Dandashi, CEO of Tamer HealthCare, a leading Saudi healthcare company, discusses how the group aims to benefit from Saudi Arabia’s healthcare transformation through digitalization, changing their product-oriented business model to a holistic service-driven business model. After years of entrepreneurial and public sector experience, he explains the changes…

Saudi Arabia Aymen Tamer, chairman and managing partner of historic Saudi healthcare firm Tamer Group, outlines how, informed by Saudi’s Vision 2030, the company is adapting to better meet the needs of the rapidly evolving domestic pharma market. Tamer also touches on the challenges of succession planning, why a deep and long-term…

China Dr Qing Liu, Arctic Vision’s VP for Clinical & Regulatory Affairs, shares her key priorities and the potential for top-line ophthalmological innovations in the Chinese market.   Unmet medical needs in eye care are huge in the Asia markets, and biotech companies will become increasingly important players and innovation drivers…

China Dr Yi (York) Chen, VP for operations and commercial planning at Arctic Vision shares his priorities, his wide experience of ophthalmology product launches in China, and how the company is positioning itself in relation to much larger companies in the Chinese ophthalmology market.   Fundamentally, we are convinced that the…

China Founded by a veteran industry team, Arctic Vision recently celebrated its first anniversary and touts itself as the first innovative ophthalmology-focused biotech in China, with the mission of bringing innovative therapies from abroad to patients in China.   According to CEO and cofounder Dr Eddy WU, a company like Arctic…

China Dr Eddy Wu, founder and CEO of new Chinese ophthalmology biotech Arctic Vision outlines the specific unmet ophthalmology needs in the Chinese market, the company’s burgeoning international partnerships, exciting portfolio, and Dr Wu’s own personal leadership journey.   From an R&D perspective … what is critical in ophthalmology is the…

Puerto Rico “Medical device manufacturing has a long history on the island, starting with Baxter in the 1950s. Today, 30 world-leading medical device companies are present in Puerto Rico generating 20,000 direct jobs across 70 manufacturing plants producing more than 2,500 different types of devices, including many critically important life-sustaining products such…