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Drug Discovery in China, yes. But, Drug Development in China?

Written by Damjan. Posted on March 4, 2010. Filed under China, News Items. No comments.

Nature Publishing Group put out - what was for me, an admitted pedestrian when it comes to biotech - an informative Biotech in China Supplement. For industry insiders there is plenty of detail about what company is investing where,while more casual readers (again, like me) have to search a bit for more general information. The following is what I got out of it.

Healthcare in Asia won’t be that cheap for long, and neither will business (probably)

Written by Damjan. Posted on February 2, 2010. Filed under Asia, NOT-China, China, News Items. 1 Comment.

The global pharmaceutical landscape is changing. Big pharma companies are merging and getting bigger in order to expand their pipelines, and they are getting leaner, shedding jobs in the most expensive markets. The future of big pharma, everyone seems to think, is in low-cost Asia. I recently talked to a big pharma exec who seems to think otherwise. While he acknowledges that the industry is undergoing changes and increasingly moving East, he also talks of it being a process that is much more akin to an equilibrium process than a one way plane route.