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Pharmaceutical Business – Trends and Challenges – Part 4 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #670 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #670 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… This series is based on a report from StartUS insights. Trend #9 – Digital Therapeutics Digital therapeutics is a new class of evidence-based therapeutic interventions which are non-pharmacological in nature. These are software-based, tech-driven solutions which may be used alone, or along with medications, devices, or other therapeutic measures. Digital therapeutics also give patients greater control over their health and therapy outcomes. A US-based startup is offering evidence-based digital therapeutics for the treatm...

Pharmaceutical Business – Trends and Challenges – Part 4 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #670 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #670 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… This series is based on a report from StartUS insights. Trend #5 – Additive Manufacturing The scale and scope of development still baffles at time, though we know the technology is moving very fast. Additive manufacturing is being explored in two dimensions: one, the use of 3D printers to develop human tissue which could be used for drug development, organ engineering, and regenerative medicine; and two, another kind of 3D printers to make personalized pills. This will also allow to develop age or physiology related medi...

Pharmaceutical Business – Trends and Challenges – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #669 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #669 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… Let us talk about the international trends and compare these to our industry status. A number of reports are available that show the trends, however, Pharma Trend Report by StartUS Insights is quite pertinent to understand where the pharma industry is going. Although they review a very large number of startups and scaleups globally, for this report they analyzed a sample of 1745 startups and scaleups and identified the top ten trends. It must be emphasized that the new trends are being led by startups, not by the large p...

Pharmaceutical Business – Trends and Challenges – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #668 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #668 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Continued from Previous…… Our Pace vis-à-vis the Developed Countries The gap between our Pharma industry and that in the developed countries is increasing rapidly in recent times. We had always been slow, but the rest of the world has become faster and is gaining further speed due to huge advancements in technology. Pharmaceutical business is regulated at all steps and the main regulator is Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan – DRAP. Prior to this, it was Drug Control Organization – DCO under the Ministry of Health. The staff moved to DRAP when it...

Pharmaceutical Business – Trends and Challenges – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #667 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #667 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Pharmaceutical business, like other businesses in facing unprecedented challenges. The developments that are taking place internationally will sooner or later hit the industry here. In this series, I shall talk about the trends that are being identified internationally, and the challenges that the industry is facing, with special reference to Pakistan. The rise of local pharma was the single most important event that occurred in the Pakistan pharma market. It evolved over time, but it kept developing inexorably, and it is largely undoable. This d...