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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 29, 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

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

Billions on Bioconjugation: Is APAC Building the Right ADC Capacity — or Too Much?

In Songdo, on the reclaimed waterfront west of Seoul, a 202,000-square-metre construction site is becoming the most expensive single statement Kore...

June 19, 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

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

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

The Footnote Test: When the Sustainability Pledge Met the Earnings Call

The slide had been on the screen for almost a minute, and no one in the room would meet its eye. It was a simple chart, the kind that the company's invest...

June 04, 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

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