Pharma Industry
What is the Electronic Health Record in Abu Dhabi called
Malaffi
Fastest growing pharmaceutical company
Eli Lily
What is penicillin(s)
Class of substances that can be used for infections which were invented in 1928 by a coincidence by Alexander Fleming
Is the UAE pharmaceutical market driven more by public or private payers?
Public & semi-government payers (with private playing a growing role)
Who is Healthcare Professionals (also accepted as "HCPs" or "sundhedspersonale" in Danish)
The group of professionals which pharma companies may target pharmaceutical marketing to
Fastest growing pharmaceutical company
Eli Lilly
Name three top 10 pharma companies (based on 2024 revenues)
Who is
1. Johnson & Johnson (J&J) - $85.2bn
2. F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Roche) - $66.4bn
3. Merck & Co – $60.1bn
4. Pfizer – $58.5bn
5. AbbVie – $54.3bn
6. Bayer – $51.9bn
7. Sanofi – $46.9bn
8. AstraZeneca (AZ) – $45.8bn
9. Novartis – $45.4bn
10. Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) - $45.0bn
What is "Phase 3"
The last clinical phase of drug discovery before a regulatory dossier can be submitted authorities
What is a Marketing Authorisation ("MA" also accepted)
Required document issued by a local medicines agency to grant marketing of a drug
Name a minimum of two healthcare professional groups consulting patients that may be involved in dispensing of medicines/drugs
Who is
1. Doctors
2. Nurses
3. Dentists
4. Pharmacists
5. Pharmaconomists ("farmakonomer")
(6. Public officials potentially if involved in medicine evaluation bodies or the like)
M42 is the coming together of which two key stakeholders
Mubadala and G42
The Largest pharmaceutical company in Denmark
Who is Novo Nordisk
What is Insulin
A peptide hormone that regulate carbohydrate metabolism - which was discovered in 1889 when doctors discovered a link between pancreas and diabetes
What is one reason biosimilars are gaining traction in the UAE?
Cost containment and payer pressure
Drug maker in the US that was sued in multiple states - and went bankrupt - due to the illegal methods used for marketing of their opioid product Oxycontin
Purdue Pharma
Which local manufacturing facility recently got EU GMP certification
Mubadala Bio
Company that invented the substance Vancomycin among many other anti-infectives
Eli Lily
What is nitrous oxide (also known as "laughing gas")
The first known anaesthesia which was discovered in 1799, as it was described how this gas could be used to numb the body prior to surgery
What is "Game Theory"
Business school term for applied mathematics that provides tools for analyzing situations in which parties/players make decisions that are interdependent and causing each player to consider the other player's possible strategies in formulating pricing strategy
What is the process of monitoring a drug post-launch
Pharmacovigilance
What type of healthcare model focuses on outcomes rather than volume?
Value-based healthcare
The Company that discovered the Corona Vaccine and who acquired it?
BioNTech and Pfizer
What specialty pharmacy area recently got a new treatment FDA-approved
Rare Disease (Zycubo- Fatal, genetic disease of copper metabolism)
What federal authority is responsible for regulating all medical and pharmaceutical products
Emirates Drug Establishment
Company involved in largest US drug related lawsuit ever which resulted in US$ 3bn settlements ($1bn criminal and $2bn in civil settlements) relating to the drugs Avandia, Wellbutrin, Paxil, Advair, Lamictal, Zofran, Imitrex, Lotronex, Flovent and Valtrex
GSK