The second meeting in the presence of the 2021/2022 social year of the members of the Lions Club Forlì Host saw the presence as speaker of Massimo Scaccabarozzi, president of Farmindustra, who dealt with the theme "Drugs and the pharmaceutical industry in Italy". The important guest was presented by Riccardo Bevilacqua, president of the Club, during the evening of Thursday 28 October 2021, which took place at the Grand Hotel in Castrocaro Terme.
Courtesy of the Lions Club Forlì Host we report on video the speech of the President of Farmindustria, Scaccabarozzi
In summary, the intervention concerned above all the theme of pharmaceutical scientific research which has lengthened life expectancy. The investments of pharmaceutical companies in Italy (57% foreign and 43% Italian) in research is 3 billion. Over the next 5 years, 5,000 billion will be invested in research worldwide.
Foreign investments favor Italy for the quality of human resources. In Europe, Italy is first for the presence of pharmaceutical companies with US and German capital, second for that of French, Swiss and Japanese companies.
The research trend is personalized therapy. Address the drug patent issue.
Today Italy is the first country in Europe for the production of drugs with a turnover of 31.2 billion euros and has expressed the greatest increase in pharmaceutical exports among the European drug multinationals, marking a 15-fold growth from 1991 to 2017 It represents 55% of all high-tech exports of the country and is the 3rd sector for investments in research and development.
The debate that followed concerned above all vaccines.