Leaders of biopharma and private equity firms at a recent conference sought a robust domestic market and reimbursement mechanism to propel the innovation ecosystem in India, drawing parallels with the framework that aided China's ascent in the R&D value chain. Alongside, regulatory reform is also pivotal, they stressed.

Belgian mRNA technologies firm Etherna, which is backed by high profile investors including former Bayer CEO Marijn Dekkers and Moderna co-founder Kenneth Chien, has reoriented its business model. Interim CEO Bernard Sagaert tells In Vivo how the firm hopes to deliver superior products for partners in the rapidly expanding RNA space.

Immuneel’s COO, Dr Arun Anand, talks to Scrip about how things are shaping for the Indian start-up’s autologous CD19 directed CAR-T cell therapy and the ‘journey to be traversed’ on the pricing front. He believes India could potentially see cell therapies being commercialized in the next 12 to 18 months.

Big pharma executives discuss the transformative potential of the metaverse in the life sciences segment and how things are shaping in the virtual world amid the hype. GSK’s senior VP and chief technology officer outlines to Scrip gains made deploying digital twins and bots.

BioAsia 2023: CEPI's CEO, Dr Richard Hatchett, talks about viruses with pandemic potential, enhanced ‘spillover risk’ and delivering on operational excellence to get to the mission of having vaccines ready for initial authorization within 100 days of identification of a pandemic pathogen.

BioAsia 2023 was a melting pot of ideas with Novartis's CEO and a senior executive from Apple, among others, discussing a range of topics including the potential of novel therapies and platforms such as siRNA and radioligand and also where things were headed as the union of technology and biotech drives new insights into biology and promises to help reimagine healthcare.