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 Five Global Trends in Business and Society in 2025 – 5 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1067 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1067 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Nischal Mudennavar Credit: Khalid Khan Credit: Mido Makasardi Credit: Nadine Sh This post is based on an INSEAD survey and report. Preamble The INSEAD article "Five Global Trends in Business and Society in 2025" identifies key challenges and opportunities that businesses should address this year. 1. Climate Change 2. Geopolitical Crises 3. Economic Uncertainty 4. Social Instability 5. Income and Wealth Inequality The article emphasises the need for businesses to proactively engage with these issues to foster a more equitable and sustainable society. We take these trends one by one in discussion. Income and We...

More Facts About Pfizer BioNTech Covid Vaccine – Pat 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #752 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #752 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. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: Google Images When COVID19 started from Wuhan, China and rapidly gripped the world, the talk of vaccine started immediately. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine took the lead in introducing its mRNA-based vaccine. It was closely followed by Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. China and Russia also delivered their conventional vaccines. The vaccines were administered worldwide, despite the initial inequality when the developed nations kept most of the stock for their own population. Some statistics are staggering. • 13....

New Gene Therapy Products – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #747 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #747 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. Photo Credit: Gilmer Diaz Estela Photo Credit: Thirdman Photo Credit: Tiger Lily Gene therapy is among the newest modalities of treatment. It is still an experimental treatment that works by introducing genetic material into a person’s cell to fight or prevent disease. Gene Therapy is presently being tested for several diseases, such as autoimmune disorders, hemophilia, thalassemia, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and so on. Gene therapy drugs are to be given as a single dose, only once in life.  We continue to look at some more drugs. CARVY...

Greetings – New Year 2023 III – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #741 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #741 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. Lastly, we look the less privileged people, while greet the new year from the warmth, coziness, and affluence of our homes. North America and Europe represent the smallest percentage of the world’s population, and Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa represent the largest, after we take out the two most populous countries; China, and India. While the wealthiest countries account for only 20% of the world population, they consume approximately 86% of the world’s resources. Another statistic is that 7% population consumes 70% resources. At the same time, the poorest 20% ...

Pakistan Pharma Industry SWOT – Part 15 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #606 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #606 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. Opening Note February 2022 marks my completing 47 years of working in Pharma Industry. Allah be praised. I am still working. The first half of my working career was spent in Multinational companies, and the latter half in the Local Pharma, making me well-versed with both innovators and generics markets. I also had the opportunity to work in business as well as operations.  My journey of near half century is also the journey of Pharma Industry in Pakistan. Great changes have occurred in this time and a lot could be written about it. In my blogs, which were started ...

End of the Year – Note 5 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #582 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #582. 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. Today is the last day of the Year 2021. 31 December. I pray and wish the year is closing with good memories for you. I also pray and wish that the new year brings loads of blessings and happiness for you, your family, and your loved ones. Aameen. People are the most important asset on this planet. And unfortunately, people are most ill-treated on this earth.  Climate change is a tangible issue which cannot be brushed under the carpet. It has been created by the humans because of misuse of natural resources over centuries, which did not stop even after the fact was recognized, stu...

Us and Our Governance III – Blog Post #451 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #451. Pharma Veterans welcomes 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…… We are discussing major areas of concern in our country. Education Extensive experimentation, adventurism and profiteering have been the hallmark of our education system.  To begin with, medium of teaching was Urdu and mediums of instructions were local languages. English as a subject started at grade six and continued onwards. English as a medium of teaching was restricted to college and university education. Missionary schools used English as medium of teaching, but these were few and accessible only to a tiny fraction of students. Education was uniform and promoted e...