Pharmaceuticals

The pharmaceutical company Ascendis Pharma has entered the Portuguese market with a focus on rare endocrine diseases. The move is part of the company’s Iberian strategy and its objective of [...]

Organon Pharmaceuticals is expanding its presence in Portugal, having transformed its current center in Lisbon into a Center of Excellence in Business Technology. With 200 people in the country, [...]

AstraZeneca, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world with operations in Portugal since 1999, is to invest €600 million in a new competencies hub in Lisbon. The new hub, located [...]

Can Portugal’s companies survive the times we’re living in today when the EU’s ecological pact is facing multiple challenges? On Wednesday, a European Commission proposal was published to make [...]

The Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial, which last year celebrated its centenary, is a household name in Portugal and well known in the field of specialised epilepsy and Parkinson’s treatment [...]

Mourad Aboubakr is the new president of pharmaceutical company Novartis Portugal. Already with the company for 15 years, he has a wide experience in the Pharma sector having taken on various [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photo: ICPT As the Madonna song goes, “we’re living in a material world” and when the former chairman of arguably Portugal’s most successful and internationally well-known [...]

In 2013 when António Portela decided it was time to join the family firm BIAL to become the fourth generation involved in the family company, which this year celebrated its 100th anniversary on [...]

The Portuguese branch of Janssen – the pharmaceutical company from the Johnson & Johnson Group known as Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine – has attracted the international [...]