PAOLO PAISSONI
R&D and Business Development Director
Procos S.p.A.
Member of Chimica Oggi – Chemistry Today Scientific Advisory Board

After almost two years of COVID-19 pandemic, we are still in a condition where we are not able to go everywhere, seeing each other to discuss ideas and projects, mainly managing videocalls, webinars, remote meetings and conferences. Something is moving on, though not as in the past.

However, challenges for pharmaceutical space have not changed at all, even enforced by the pandemic. Vaccines have involved several companies, innovators and manufacturers, the efforts have been and are great, supporting properly the needs. Actually, it is still a work in progress.

Science is the answer to solve these problems, despite any irrational and anti-scientific theory, and the pharmaceutical world has a key role.
From the recent experience, we learned two main lessons: how speed is essential to find fast solutions to the sudden issues and resources are not everlasting, we need to take care of them.
Innovators and sponsors have been so fast to study and support the appropriate research to get quickly to the special targets of this period. That attitude will remain along the time, assigning the right priorities, not only related to th ...