Pharmaceuticals

Can Portugal’s companies survive the times we’re living in today when the EU’s ecological pact is facing multiple challenges? On Wednesday, a European Commission proposal was published to make [...]

The Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial, which last year celebrated its centenary, is a household name in Portugal and well known in the field of specialised epilepsy and Parkinson’s treatment [...]

Mourad Aboubakr is the new president of pharmaceutical company Novartis Portugal. Already with the company for 15 years, he has a wide experience in the Pharma sector having taken on various [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photo: ICPT As the Madonna song goes, “we’re living in a material world” and when the former chairman of arguably Portugal’s most successful and internationally well-known [...]

In 2013 when António Portela decided it was time to join the family firm BIAL to become the fourth generation involved in the family company, which this year celebrated its 100th anniversary on [...]

The Portuguese branch of Janssen – the pharmaceutical company from the Johnson & Johnson Group known as Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine – has attracted the international [...]

Bluepharma, a Portuguese pharmaceutical company, has just opened a state-of-the-art industrial unit specialised in the production of oral solid high potent drugs, namely in the oncology area. The [...]

US Biopharmaceutical company Amgen is to invest €100 million in a hub in Portugal that will eventually create 300 new job posts. The Amgen Capability Center Portugal (ACCP) has already hired 170 [...]

Delegates that took part at Portugal’s Pharmaceutical Industry Forum agreed that there are opportunities for Europe’s reindustrialisation and in the reconfiguration of supply chains. However, the [...]