Corporate Supporters

Medtronic

Medtronic is the global leader in medical technology – alleviating pain, restoring health and extending life for millions of people around the world. During the past year, Medtronic provided medical professionals with products and therapies to improve the lives of more than 5 million patients. Primary products include those for heart and vascular disease, neurological disorders, chronic pain, spinal disorders, diabetes, urologic and digestive system disorders, and eye, ear, nose and throat disorders.

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is an international pharmaceutical company that provides medicines designed to treat diseases in important areas of medical need: oncology, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience and respiratory. (Source: AstraZeneca)

 

Servier

Servier has chosen to concentrate on the market in France and Europe to create value through innovation. We have always maintained considerable production capacity, especially at our Oril Industrie facility in Normandy, which produces nearly 2,000 metric tons of active ingredients each year, as well as at our Gidy facility near Orléans in France, which produces over 190 million boxes of medicines that are distributed in 109 countries. (Source: Servier)

 

Pharma Dynamics

Pharma Dynamics is committed to providing all South Africans with access to effective affordable healthcare. (Source: Pharma Dynamics) 

Boston Scientific

Boston Scientific: Our products and technologies are used to diagnose or treat a wide range of medical conditions, including heart, digestive, pulmonary, vascular, urological, women’s health, and chronic pain conditions. (Source: Boston Scientific)

 

Novartis

Novartis provides healthcare solutions that address the evolving needs of patients and societies. We are a world leader in healthcare, with core businesses in pharmaceuticals, consumer health, animal health, eye care and generics. (Source: Novartis) 

 

Vertice MedTech

Your Premium Medtech Partner

At Vertice MedTech Group, state-of-the-art patient care is our mission.
 
Established in 2018, following a strategic partnership between The Amayeza Group and South Africa-based investor, Ethos, Vertice is committed to bringing the best-in-class medical technologies to enable healthcare professionals to provide optimal care to their patients.
 
Our customers love working with us because we produce high-quality, world-class surgical products and instruments, personalised service, extensive training and comprehensive technical support.
 
 

Boehringer Ingelheim

Improving the health and quality of life of patients is the goal of the research-driven pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The focus in doing so is on diseases for which no satisfactory treatment option exists to date. The company therefore concentrates on developing innovative therapies that can extend patients’ lives. In animal health, Boehringer Ingelheim stands for advanced prevention. 
 
Family-owned since it was established in 1885, Boehringer Ingelheim is one of the pharmaceutical industry’s top 20 companies. Some 50,000 employees create value through innovation daily for the three business areas human pharmaceuticals, animal health and biopharmaceuticals. In 2017, Boehringer Ingelheim achieved net sales of nearly 18.1 billion euros. R&D expenditure, exceeding three billion euros, corresponded to 17.0 per cent of net sales. 
 
As a family-owned company, Boehringer Ingelheim plans in generations and focuses on long-term success. The company therefore aims at organic growth from its own resources with simultaneous openness to partnerships and strategic alliances in research. In everything it does, Boehringer Ingelheim naturally adopts responsibility towards mankind and the environment. (Source: Boehringer Ingelheim)
 
 

Cipla

Cipla has been built brick by brick on the foundation of Care. We are driven by this purpose – a purpose that is more than 8 decades young and it lies at the center of all our thoughts and plans, driving our actions. In being purpose inspired, we look at actions and solutions that are sustainable and lead to ‘Caring for Life’.
We are a global pharmaceutical firm that consistently Cares for Life and delivers on its commitment to all our stakeholders – patients, regulators, customers, partners, employees, investors and community.
 

Zydus

Zydus is a leading global healthcare provider, with a difference. We are dedicated to life and living it in all the ways possible. We push it through innovation and pursue it in our relationships with our partners. 
It is our nature to care and our purpose to build healthier communities, all over the world.
 

Bayer

Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time.

 

Baroque Medical

Baroque Medical, through its focus on customer needs, continues to be the Partner of Choice through the marketing, sales and distribution of reputable products that ensure better patient outcomes.

The supply of disposable and capital medical devices and pharmaceutical products is facilitated by professional staff, who are considered to be the most valuable asset at Baroque Medical and its customers in the Sub-Saharan African and Indian Ocean regions.
Our commitment to the advance of the standard of patient care is underpinned by our ability to supply products of exceptional quality and furthermore by our offering of unbiased educational programs to healthcare professionals in their stated disciplines under the auspices of world leading professionals.

 

Biotronik

Biotronik is a leading global medical technology company with products and services that save and improve the lives of millions suffering from heart and blood vessel diseases, as well as chronic pain. Driven by a purpose to perfectly match technology with the human body, we are dedicated to innovation and quality to develop trusted cardiovascular, endovascular and neuromodulation solutions.

 

Menarini

Menarini, high quality therapeutics and diagnostics solutions for patients, ethics as our underlying principle, dedication to innovation and advancement, strong people centricity and environmental sustainability. These five pillars form the foundation of the Menarini Group, an Italian pharmaceutical company with more than 135 years of history. Founded in 1886 in Naples under the name of Farmacia Internazionale, in 1915 Menarini moved to Florence where the Group’s headquarters are still located today.

 

Merck

Merck, as a vibrant science and technology company, we believe in science as a force for good. We uniquely combine three specialized, innovation-driven businesses: Life Science, Healthcare, and Electronics.

 

Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk. For more than 100 years, we have been translating the unmet medical needs of people living with a serious chronic disease into innovative medicines and delivery systems, like our insulin pens. 
 
Our treatments today are benefiting millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. 
 
From our labs to our factory floors, we are discovering and developing innovative biological medicines and making them accessible to patients throughout the world
 
 

Organon

 
Organon is an independent global healthcare company with a strategy to improve the health of women throughout their lives. Our diverse portfolio across women's health, biosimilars, and established brands includes therapies and products for a wide range of conditions and diseases.
 
 

Pfizer

 
 
At Pfizer, our purpose is to bring breakthrough’s that change patients’ lives. But breakthroughs are not only scientific; they are also logistical, technological and operational so we can deliver our breakthrough medicines and vaccines into more patients’ hands across the world even faster and to deliver on these breakthroughs requires a breakthrough mindset. It is for this reason that Pfizer has identified courage, excellence, equity and joy as its core values that will enable our purpose-driven growth strategy. Informed by these values our diverse team works daily to provide all South Africans with access to global scientific innovation that can help them to live longer, better lives.