Nikolai Brun is a rare regulator who has rolled up his sleeves and successfully helped bring a therapy to market. He was part of a team at Genmab that discovered one of the first monoclonal antibodies for treating cancer.  Nikolai was previously the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Danish Medicines Agency, and has recently gone back into industry, as the CMO of the Swedish biotech company, Affibody.

In this Vital Health Podcast, Nikolai Brun outlines why Europe’s biopharmaceutical sector is falling behind the rest of the world's and how the proposed EU pharmaceutical legislation, while containing many good ideas, may harm the sector instead. The podcast also highlights how the continuing decline in clinical trials in the EU should be setting off alarm bells in Brussels, even if the reaction of many bureaucrats implies that they don’t see this as a concern or a priority.

This podcast was made possible with the support of EFPIA - The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations. 

00:00:41 - EU Pharmaceutical Legislation Proposal: AMR and EMA Review Timelines
00:03:46 - Europe's Loss of Competitiveness: Regulatory Sandbox and Real-World Data
00:07:34 - Regulatory Data Protection Linked to Access to All 27 Member States
00:12:03 - Development of COVID-19 Vaccines: The Regulatory Challenges
00:15:45 - AMR Incentives
00:20:45 - Europe Losing Ground vis-à-vis the USA
00:24:42 - Global Share of Clinical Trials
00:31:37 - Regulatory Sandbox
00:35:21 - Forced Access to All 27 Member States and Incentives  
00:41:40 - Regulators’ Skills Gap
00:48:19 - Europe and Value-Based Healthcare
00:49:50 - Unmet Medical Needs and Accelerated Procedures
00:55:57 - The Best Place to Start to Improve the European System
00:58:36 - Advanced Therapies Development: The Case of China