Saudi Chemical Company Holding (SCCH), Saudi Arabia’s leading manufacturer of civil and military explosives, has been expanding its pharma sector footprint in recent years. Today, the company has capabilities across pharma distribution through SITCO Pharma, manufacturing (both for its own…
Medicines for Africa’s Lenias Hwenda highlights the vast gaps in COVID-19 vaccine access globally, especially in Africa where just six percent of the population has been vaccinated. Hwenda argues that…
The Top Five countries in Europe for pharma production. All located in Western Europe, Switzerland punches well above its weight to take top spot. This data is taken from the 2021…
Over two years since the first cases of COVID-19, the world is still coming to terms with the virus. While vaccines have been developed and rolled out in record time…
Recently appointed CEO of Saudi Chemical Company Holding’s Pharma Sector, Ismail Shehada is today drawing on 20+ years of Big Pharma experience to drive SCCH’s growing life sciences footprint in alignment with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 healthcare transformation. Shehada explains how SCCH is moving into third-party logistics and the manufacturing of biotech products and why this heralds…
Swiss-based Lonza has consolidated as a titan in the CDMO industry with annual revenues of around CHF 5.9bn for 2020. Its president for the Biologics and Cell & Gene divisions,…
Dogan Taskent, board member of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in Turkey, highlights Turkey’s successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic, how the local R&D ecosystem collaborated, often for free, to…
While supporters of Turkey’s localization policy for pharmaceuticals implemented in 2016 applaud the changes it has brought, its opponents are awaiting a much-anticipated report by the World Trade Organization that…
The latest news from Chinese pharma, including a new report showing that despite the increasing number of Priority Review and Breakthrough Therapy designations awarded within China, only two Accelerated Approval…
Saudi Arabia has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world – over 17 percent of the population are diabetic – making the supply of insulin products a…
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI), the largest private pharma company in the world, has become the latest Big Pharma player to commit to Turkish localization after announcing a contract manufacturing partnership with…
After a challenging 2020, and with more hurdles in sight, Bayer has been on an investment spree with a USD 2 billion acquisition of a San Diego-based biotech and manufacturing…
Three months after the World Bank announced a EUR 600 million loan to South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare, the African continent has received more good news as it seeks to increase…
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