Innovative science is transforming patient care

Advances in science and constant investment in the research and development of new medicines result in breakthrough discoveries with major benefits for patients, such as increased life expectancy and improved quality of life.

Biotehnologia revoluționează diagnosticarea și tratarea a numeroase boli

La nivel mondial, viețile a peste 350 de milioane de pacienți au fost îmbunătățite datorită tratamentelor cu medicamente biologice inovatoare.

Healthcare is a key driver of social and economic well-being

An important aspect in ensuring an efficient and fair health system is to reshape it in order to accommodate new discoveries and developments in medicine.

Local American Working Group Association – LAWG

In this new era where innovative medical science is transforming patient care, LAWG supports the development of a patient-centered, resilient healthcare ecosystem that addresses the needs for rapid access to innovative therapies for patients, to provide increased life expectancy and healthier lives.

Frank Loeffler
LAWG President, General Director Roche România

“Our vision motivates us in the effort to build a sustainable and resilient healthcare system that enables increased and rapid access to medical innovation for patients. The projects that LAWG implements bring tangible benefits to the medical sector, connecting Romania to global clinical research and improving healthcare outcomes for patients. At the same time, I consider it important to continue the collaboration between the public sector, both governmental and academic, and the private sector. Only by partnering with the brightest minds in science and academia we can accelerate efforts to serve patients, both now and in the future.”

Radu Rășinar
LAWG Vice-President, General Director AstraZeneca România

“Local American Working Group aims to be an important pillar of the health innovation ecosystem in Romania and, in this sense, we rely on the support of our strategic partners such as the Embassy of the United States of America and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. We are motivated by pragmatic solutions that ensure the vision of a European standard of care for patients because progress in medicine goes at a dizzying speed, and we have the duty to ensure access to innovation for the Romanian patients.”

Adriana Stara
LAWG General Secretary, General Director AbbVie România

“LAWG association is a promoter of innovation in healthcare, that advocates for raising standards of care to the level of those offered in EU countries, in order to improve the quality of life of the Romanian patients. Given the importance of dialogue and partnership for health innovation, LAWG aims to create a communication platform in 2023 with the purpose of providing health professionals, authorities and patients with updated information on innovation and biotechnology, to promote initiatives and projects of the association, whose objective is to increase patients’ access to innovative solutions that contribute to the development of a healthy society.”

LAWG Member Companies

Abbvie
Amgen
AstraZeneca
Boehringer Ingelheim
Bristol Myers Squibb
Eli Lilly
Johnson&Johnson
Merck Sharp & Dohme
Novartis
Roche
Sanofi
UCB

LAWG Partners

US Commercial Service
PhRMA
Hub Inovatie Sanatate