Category Archives: Emerging Markets

Emerging Markets: Looking Beyond the Heady Growth Numbers

By William Looney | Published: April 27, 2011
A sweet helping of “Turkish delight” for local generic producers amounts to harsh medicine for foreign innovator firms… Emerging markets remain the ace in the card deck for big pharma seeking alternatives to the global slowdown in demand for medicines.  The “pharmerging 17” are dealing a strong hand, with a consensus for continued double-digit growth [...]
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California Life Sciences to Partner with China

By Ben Comer | Published: April 13, 2011
BIOCOM, a trade group representing Southern California’s life sciences industry, is ramping up partnership efforts in China to meet an emerging desire for novel drug therapies. While intellectual property (IP) protections and the Chinese government’s willingness to pay for expensive new products represent two large and lingering question marks, Joe Panetta, president and CEO at BIOCOM, [...]
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First Chinese Product Development Partnership Targets Tuberculosis, Malaria, AIDS

By Ben Comer | Published: March 24, 2011
A Chinese scientific foundation and a not-for-profit tuberculosis organization announced a partnership aimed at developing new medicines for underserved public health diseases. Billed as the first Chinese product development partnership (PDP), the Global Health R&D Center of China (GHRC) hopes to discover and develop new treatments for tuberculosis (TB) and other diseases by collaborating with pharmaceutical [...]
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'Freedom of Thought' Key to Middle East Science Progress

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: March 9, 2011
A new report from Thomson Reuters points to a “rapidly changing context for science and innovation in the Middle East.” The Arabian, Persian and Turkish Middle East may currently produce only 4% of the world’s scientific literature, but the output is growing rapidly, according to a new Global Research Report from Thomson Reuters. Indeed, countries such [...]
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Battling Chronic Disease in Mexico

By Jennifer Ringler | Published: February 28, 2011
The objectives of the Workplace Wellness & Prevention Council of Mexico could lead to a win-win situation that may serve as a model for other developing countries around the world. In 2003, Abner Mason started a non-profit in Mexico. The AIDS Responsibility Project’s primary function was to campaign against discrimination of people with AIDS [...]
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