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Why Asia Pacific Must Rethink Chronic Care Before the Demographic Tipping Point

Asia Pacific’s ageing economies are entering a more demanding phase of healthcare planning. As populations live longer, the challenge for healthcare ...

August 10, 2026 | Opinion | By Ambra Debernardi, Head of Employee Benefits and Corporate Relationships, APAC, Zurich Insurance

From Market Access to Long-Term Growth: Rethinking Biopharma Expansion in APAC

BioPharma APAC speaks with Girisan Kariangal, Regional Vice President – Business Development & Alliance Management, Menarini Asia-Pacific, on the...

August 04, 2026 | Interaction

8 APAC Assets That Went Global The Out-Licensing Class of 2025 to 2026

Business development teams across the region keep arriving at the same question, phrased slightly differently each time. What did a comparable asset, at a ...

July 29, 2026 | Analysis

Two Chairs, 11,000 Kilometres Apart: The Human Cost of Asia’s Plasma Dependence

REPORTAGE / PLASMA SUPPLY THE CHAIR The chair reclines. That is the first thing you notice, walking into a plasma centre in a strip mall on...

July 17, 2026 | Analysis

Can APAC Biomanufacturing Decarbonise Without Pricing Itself Out?

Scope 3 clauses, single-use plastic, water and energy intensity: the “green premium” has become the defining question for the CDMOs that built ...

July 14, 2026 | Analysis

APAC's Peptide-Capacity Gamble

For most of pharmaceutical history, the hard part was finding a molecule that worked. The GLP-1 class inverted that logic. The science arrived first &mdash...

July 09, 2026 | Analysis

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 06, 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

The Great Biopharma Reset: 50 Developments That Changed Everything in H1 2026

For three years the biotechnology industry waited for a turn. The first half of 2026 delivered one — and then several more in quick succession. In si...

June 30, 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

After the Drug Substance, the Real Squeeze: APAC's Aseptic Fill-Finish Gap

For most of the last decade, the anxiety in Asia-Pacific biomanufacturing pointed upstream. The conversation was about bioreactor volume — how many t...

June 22, 2026 | Analysis

Good Enough and Cheap, or Prove It's Equivalent? Asia's Biosimilar Trust Gap

There is a number that captures Asia's biosimilar paradox in a single line. According to Samsung Bioepis's quarterly tracking of the United States market, ...

June 15, 2026 | Analysis

Scientific Infrastructure or Expensive Theatre? AI Discovery’s Reckoning in Asia

In October 2025, Eli Lilly announced it would build the most powerful supercomputer ever owned by a drug company. By February 2026, “LillyPod” ...

June 02, 2026 | Analysis

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