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Pharmaceutical R&D is emerging from a turbulent couple of years, as the COVID-19 pandemic threatened to blow it off course, forcing it to urgently respond to a global health crisis, whilst simultaneously changing many of the ways in which it conducted clinical development. As the world begins to get back to normal, what has been the overall effect on the drug pipeline?

This webinar will examine the question and will be based around the Citeline Pharma R&D Annual Review, now in its thirtieth year, which looks at trends both short- and long-term in drug development. Ian Lloyd, Senior Director of Citeline’s Pharmaprojects database, the report’s author will present analyses of leading companies, diseases, mechanisms and targets, and drug types. The review includes exclusive APAC-centred content, with a particular focus on the explosion of novel pharma R&D which is occurring in China.

This year being the 30th anniversary, we are inviting key opinion leaders from across the APAC and EMEAI regions to discuss the drug development and pipeline in 2022. This roundtable discussion will be hosted by Ian Haydock, Editor-in-Chief, Pharma, APAC, Scrip Group who spends years writing about Pharma R&D and drug development articles. Come join us as this webinar promises to provide unique insight into the state of global and regional R&D in 2022.

Key topics that will be discussed

    What’s the single biggest challenge in global pharma R&D at present?

    What does our panel see as the main strategic advantage of the current R&D environment in their own territory and in the R&D conducted by local companies there?
    The main strategic advantages of the current R&D environment in APAC
    Where the opportunities for true innovation in R&D now lie
    The role of regulation/policy and pricing in ensuring an incentivized ecosystem of R&D


Speakers:

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Andrew White, PhD 

R&D Competitive Intelligence Lead

NIBR/GDD Competitive & Business Insights

Novartis Pharma AG


Andrew is responsible for R&D competitive intelligence at Novartis, providing data-driven analysis and insights across the Novartis portfolio to aid strategic decision making. Our focus is broad, from supporting early exploratory scientific research, right through to late stage product development.

A particular focus is the support of portfolio strategy, which requires a holistic view of our internal R&D activities, as well as an understanding of industry trends and innovation.

Andrew has been working at Novartis for 18 years, initially in the UK, before moving to Switzerland in 2006. For the last 3 years, Andrew has served as the Chairperson for the Pharma CI Europe Conference, and actively participates in expert CI panels and round table discussions, embracing all aspects of competitive intelligence.

Prior to joining Novartis, Andrew worked as a Senior Patent Analyst at Thomson Reuters

He obtained a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of East Anglia, UK.

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Ian Lloyd

Senior Director, Pharmaprojects & Data Integration

Informa Pharma Intelligence


Ian Lloyd is the Senior Director of Pharmaprojects and Data Integration, overseeing the content and analyst services for our drug development solution. He supports clients in their drug pipeline data requirements and drug pipeline inquiries, providing insight into the best search strategies to answer their drug research and development business questions. 


 His expertise includes identifying and analyzing trends in pharma R&D. For over 20 years, he has authored the “Pharma Annual R&D review” and its new active substances (NAS) launches supplement. This has become a must-have industry report for those seeking to identify the changing fortunes of drug R&D. Ian joined Pharmaprojects in 1987, when it was part of PJB Publications. It was acquired by Informa in 2003. He previously worked in molecular biology as a research assistant at the University of Bristol.

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YAN Shangjun, Ph.D, MBA

Head of R&D Strategy & Portfolio Management, Global R&D Center, Shanghai Fosun Pharma, China


Dr. Yan Shangjun is the head of R&D Strategy and Portfolio Management of Global R&D Center, Fosun Pharma. He is in charge of R&D strategic planning, disease strategy, portfolio management, license-in project evaluation and review, assessment of new R&D technology. He drives to expand R&D portfolio with highly innovative projects by licensing-in, raising research fund. He advocates the AI-enhanced technology for accelerating target identification and drug design, and leads the efforts to form strategic partnership with a leading AI-drug company. He is currently the general project leader of five original projects under preclinical development stage.

Prior to joining Fosun, Dr. Yan had been working as a scientist, consultant or management role with Roche, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Sanofi, IQVIA in the US, Europe and China for more than twenty years, focusing on the area of discovery, pre-clinical development, clinical operations, new product launch readiness, R&D portfolio management etc.

Dr. Yan obtained his Ph.D. in molecular cell biology from Fudan University China, and MBA from Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University, the Netherlands.

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Dr. Ken J. Lee

APAC Regional Head Executive Vice President of Clinical Development

Syneos Health


A seasoned professional with almost 20 years of industry experience, including leadership roles in Clinical and Commercial Operations and Medical Affairs for both clinical research organizations and biopharmaceutical companies.

Leads the Syneos Health Asia Pacific Clinical Solutions business, providing executive leadership and oversight across thirteen countries, driving growth, customer engagement and quality project delivery.

Extensive experience in large multinational CRO and pharmaceutical companies including IQVIA, Bayer, UCB and Sanofi.Covered Asia Pacific, Europe, Canada, Middle East and Africa while being based in 6 different countries.

Alumni of Melbourne University Medical School and INSEAD. Executive education at IMD, Centre of Creative Leadership and Asian Leadership Institute

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Dr. Mukul R Jain

President & Head, Nonclinical Research & Development

Zydus Life


Dr. Mukul Jain is working with Zydus Lifesciences Ltd.as President at  Zydus  Research  Centre,Ahmedabad and  is responsible  for new drug discovery & development.  He was the key person responsible for discovery & development of Saroglitazar and Desidustat, the first NCEs that came from an Indian Pharmaceutical  Company and  got  approved  for  use  in  human patients. Besides Saroglitazar and Desidustat, he has contributed to discovery & development of 16 other New Chemical Entities that crossed IND stage  of  development.  Besides  NCEs,  his  group has completed nonclinical safety  assessment  of  15 biologicals  and  14 vaccines of Zydus Cadila. Dr. Jain obtained his B.Pharm, M.Pharm & PhD degrees from Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagpur University.   

He has also completed an Executive Management course from IIM, Ahmedabad and a Post-doc at University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He has over 31years’ professional experience, starting with Nagpur University followed  by Wockhardt, Ranbaxy, Univ. of  Florida and NIPER-Mohali before joining Zydus group in 2000. He  has  contributed  to 172 full-length  research  papers, 4 book chapters and over 77 patents. He is a Member of the  Governing Board of NIPER, Ahmedabad; Research Advisory Council Member of CSIR-IITR and Gujarat Biotechnology Research Center; Editorial Advisory Board Member of 'American Chemical Society’s ‘Medicinal Chemistry Letters’; and also a member of various International Scientific Societies including ADA, EASD, AACR, AAAS, AASLD, EASL, IPS, ASPET and ACS.


Hosted by

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Ian Haydock

Editor-in-chief, APAC

Informa Pharma Intelligence


Ian oversees content for the Asia-Pacific area, including in the commercial and policy/regulation areas, with a particular interest in company and pricing topics. He has been covering the region for more than 20 years as a writer and editor in the pharma sector.

Ian first moved to Japan in the 1990s and has covered a broad range of pharma industry topics, both across this market and the rest of Asia, including corporate, R&D, pricing and policy developments. After a stint as a Tokyo-based Japan and Asia editor for Scrip, he became managing editor of PharmAsia News (now part of Scrip/Pink Sheet) in 2014, and is a recipient of multiple Informa internal awards. He has a long personal and professional background in Asia, having grown up in Hong Kong, and follows regional regulatory harmonization and trade initiatives with interest. Ian lives in Tokyo with his wife and two sons.

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