19/01/2012
Ilpo Tolonen continues to chair Pharma Industry Finland PIF
Ilpo Tolonen, Managing Director of MSD Finland Oy, was re-elected for the 2012 term and continues to chair Pharma Industry Finland PIF. The PIF Vice Chairs are Antti Viitanen, Managing Director of Novartis Finland Oy and Janne Maksimainen, Director of Orion Corporation.
30/06/2011
Jussi Merikallio is new General manager of Pharma Industry Finland
Mr Jussi Merikallio, 50, has been appointed as the new PIF General Manager. Currently the Director of Social Welfare and Healthcare of the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, Jussi Merikallio will assume his new duties on 15 August 2011. PIF’s current General Manager Suvi-Anne Siimes will start as the Managing Director of the Finnish Pension Alliance TELA on 1 September 2011.
16/05/2011
Decrease in clinical trials continued in 2010
The number of clinical trials performed in Finland at the order of the pharmaceutical industry is today half of what it used to be in the peak years. The Finnish downward trend is also present in other Nordic countries, but unlike them Finland has not been able to compensate for the drop. Pharmaceutical research generates more health, wellbeing and jobs. This is the reason why the future of clinical trials should be safeguarded.