Editor's Note

Driving Pharmaceutical Innovation across Asia

The business leaders of Asia’s pharmaceutical industry have led it to become a powerhouse of innovation, production and market expansion thanks to their strategic vision and acumen. These leaders, coming from a wide variety of professional backgrounds – medicine, biochemistry, engineering, business management – have shown great foresight in exploiting the region’s huge talent pool and favourable economic conditions. These leaders have been instrumental in advancing the pharmaceutical sector by focusing on three main pillars: research and development, manufacturing scalability and market penetration. Many have also realized the criticality of R&D and strategically invested to build world class facilities to partner with academic institutions. As a result of this emphasis on innovation, generic drug production and biosimilars have been breaking new ground,...  >>More