Industry news

Cold Russian winter boosts sales of over-the-counter drugs

ITAR TASS

Russia ranks second by the pharmaceutical market of over-the-counter medications, goes a report of the multinational pharmaceutical corporation Novartis.

UK-Russia firm launches breakthrough drug-free gel to treat arthritis

Voice of Russia - UK

British Prime Minister David Cameron this week hailed the launch of a breakthrough treatment which uses nanotechnology to combat crippling arthritis pain. The drug-free gel, manufactured by Anglo-Russian company Pro Bono Bio, is the first over-the-counter product in Britain to use cutting-edge nano-physical science to ease arthritic pain.

Russian Science Foundation focuses on scientific result

ITAR TASS

The Russian Science Foundation will receive funds not only from the state budget, but from private domestic and foreign companies as well, RSF Director General Alexander Khlunov told an Itar-Tass press conference.

Members of the Association of European Businesses are considering joining Skolkovo

Skolkovo

The participants of the Round Table “AEB-Skolkovo Partnership” organized by AEB Machine Building & Engineering Committee and Working Group on Modernization and Innovation discussed what it really means to be a foreign partner of Skolkovo. The members of AEB who are thinking about joining their colleagues from Alstom, Siemens, and Schneider Electric in Skolkovo discussed the experience of the existing partners of the Foundation.

Kaluga region achieves self-reliance - official

ITAR-TASS

An innovative model implemented over less than ten years helped turn Kaluga from a subsidized region into a self-reliant one - Governor

Russia-EU scientific cooperation is becoming more dynamic and fruitful

ITAR TASS

Russian ambassador to the European Union: Russia and the European Union should go on paying great attention to science and put an emphasis on its development

Russia's Bet on Biopharma

William Looney, PharmExec.com

Russia's post-Marxist economy is ailing and is long overdue for a reset­ — but will the visible hand of government in promoting a "world-class" biopharmaceuticals sector be enough to secure a future where innovation trumps ideology?

Vladimir Putin urged to continue structural reforms of health care

Rufacts

The president of Russia considers necessary to continue structural reforms of medicine, having excluded thus "formal, purely bureaucratic approaches". At meeting in New Ogaryovo the head of state declared that "the verified, reasonable decisions, continuous dialogue with citizens" here are necessary.

Putin Touts Public-Private Partnership to Revive Health Care

Delphine d'Amora, The Moscow Times

President Vladimir Putin touted public-private partnership, as a means for revitalizing the threadbare public health care system at a meeting with top ministers Tuesday.

Russian pharma market on verge of further consolidation in 2014

The Pharma Letter