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The Vein-to-Vein Problem: Can APAC's Cold Chain Carry Advanced Therapies?

The requirement: a chain that cannot break Key figures −150°C or colder — the temperature floor for most cell and gene therapies; som...

July 03, 2026 | Analysis

Vectors, Plasmids and the CGT Trap: APAC's Cell and Gene Therapy Ambitions Face an Upstream Bottleneck

THE GATE The choke point nobody puts on the slide Somewhere in the region this quarter, a cell-and-gene developer has everything the pitch deck promised....

July 03, 2026 | Analysis

Can APAC Build Radioligand Therapy Before the Atoms Decay?

Every dose of radioligand therapy is a countdown. The moment a batch of lutetium-177 leaves the reactor, it begins to fade — roughly half its therape...

July 02, 2026 | Analysis

Beyond the Trial: Can Real-World Evidence Earn Regulatory Trust in APAC?

A new medicine arrives at a regulator's desk with two kinds of proof attached. The first is the familiar kind: a randomised controlled trial, blinded, cont...

June 30, 2026 | Analysis

Beyond the Obvious Giant: Where APAC's Clinical Trials Go Next

For most of the last decade, the strategic case for running Asia-Pacific clinical trials could be summarised in a single word: China. A vast, treatment-n...

June 29, 2026 | Analysis

The Frontier That Won’t Quite Arrive

Ask the region’s clinical-operations leaders whether decentralised and hybrid trials are the future, and the answer is almost unanimous. Surveys keep...

June 26, 2026 | Analysis

Vendor to Co-Innovator — or Bring It In-House? The CDMO Relationship Rewires

For two decades the contract development and manufacturing organisation occupied a comfortable, clearly understood place in the biopharma value chain. The ...

June 25, 2026 | Analysis

Security at What Cost? APAC and the Great Supply-Chain Reordering

For the better part of two decades, the global pharmaceutical supply chain ran on a simple, unsentimental bargain: make the chemistry where it is cheapest,...

June 24, 2026 | Analysis

Plastic, Steel and Software: APAC’s Next-Generation Bioprocessing Choice

When a biologics manufacturer in Bengaluru, Songdo or Singapore signs off on a new production suite today, the hardest question is rarely which molecule to...

June 23, 2026 | Analysis

World-Class Plants, Who Will Run Them? APAC's Biomanufacturing Skills Gap

Walk into one of the gleaming new large-molecule plants going up across Songdo, Tuas or Hyderabad and the first impression is of inevitability. The...

June 18, 2026 | Analysis

Agility or Corner-Cutting? Asia's Accelerated-Approval Gamble

On 1 April 2026, Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency did something no other major medicines regulator had done before it: from that date, ev...

June 17, 2026 | Analysis

Can the 'Pharmacy of the World' Survive Its Own Scandals?

In late September and early October 2025, children in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh began arriving at hospitals with the same grim trajectory:...

June 08, 2026 | Analysis

Curative but Unaffordable: Gene and Cell Therapy's Access Paradox in Asia

At almost every cell-and-gene-therapy conference in the region, the same slide appears: a child who was dying of leukaemia, now in durable remission; a tee...

June 03, 2026 | Analysis

Innovation Powerhouse or Inflated Bubble? Reading China’s First-in-Class Boom

A decade ago, the phrase “Chinese first-in-class drug” would have drawn a raised eyebrow in any Western boardroom. China made generics, copied ...

June 02, 2026 | Analysis | By arcilla.fran@biopharmaapac.com

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