Tagged with medicine

Taiwan Rita Huang, dean of the Office of Research and Development and the director of the TMU Research Center for Cell Therapy and Regeneration Medicine highlights the center’s unique capabilities and its innovative research projects within the emerging space of stem cell treatments. She goes on to give her insights on…

France Christopher Cuniasse, managing director of Fagron France, sheds light on the specialty area of pharmaceutical compounding and its link with personalized medicine, noting the benefits it can deliver to health professionals, patients, the pharma industry, and healthcare systems. As a newly implemented leader tasked with growing the affiliate and developing…

Taiwan Grace Yeh, president and founder of PharmaEngine, gives an update on the company’s recent growth and development of their second nanomedicine cancer treatment. Yeh goes on to explain the unique positioning of nanomedicine within oncology and Taiwan’s role as an active participant in the global fight against cancer.   PharmaEngine…

France Franck Cousserans, general manager of France and Belgium at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, highlights the company’s key products and the challenges of market access in France. Furthermore, he indicates the steps needed to grow in the future and how Jazz’s corporate culture is key to its success.   In the US, Jazz…

Korea Cure Therapeutics is a startup developing gene and cell therapies in Korea. Its founder David Kim explains where his passion for regenerative therapies stems from, breaks down the main hurdles standing in the way of success and describes how his company’s business model focused on flexibility and development speed through…

France Jaques Chevallet, CEO of Arkopharma, a European leader in herbal medicines and dietary supplements, discusses the company’s development over recent years while sharing his assessment on the current condition of the natural health product market and the role it can play as a partner to preventative care and healthcare sustainability.…

China Dr John Gong, CEO of 3D Medicines, shares the company’s ‘3D – diagnostics, data, and drug development’ approach to cancer precision medicine; his philosophy of putting patient needs at the core of the company; the innovation behind their flagship product, a subcutaneous injection PD-L1 antibody that is also stable at…

China While others have failed during the last 30 years, Hua Medicine has finally succeeded in developing a breakthrough diabetes treatment controlling blood glucose levels by taking a novel approach and modulating the glucokinase enzyme. The company is now applying the same principles to develop treatments for CNS disorders. Hua Medicine’s…

Europe The 9th February 2019 marked the launch of the European Medicines Verification System (EMVS) which will use cutting-edge technology to safeguard the medicine supply chain against fake products.   Each European country has to implement a National Medicines Verification System – EMVS   The new system — which is being dubbed the…

Spain María Jesús Lamas, director and César Hernández García, head of medicines for human use at the Spanish Agency of Medicine and Health Products (AEMPS), discuss the challenges impacting the evaluation and analysis of products today. Furthermore, they give insights into why Spain is a leading global clinical trials destination and…

China Even though China’s pharmaceutical sector remains largely generics-based, the Middle Kingdom’s biotechnology scene has been flourishing in recent years. Now the world’s fastest-growing biopharmaceutical market, China can boast a much-improved context in terms of drug regulation, ease of doing business, research capabilities and access to capital. Below, we highlight 5…

China Jack Wang, founder and CEO of Biomobie, shares the inspirational story behind the establishment of the company, the regenerative principle driving the technology of the Bioboostie device, and the innovative commercial partnerships he has established with leading health insurance companies in China.   My medical knowledge is limited. But I…