CSL CEO Brian McNamee On Being Australia’s Only Homegrown MNC: An Interview With PharmAsia News (Part 1 of 2)
Australia's only homegrown multinational company in the pharmaceutical sector, CSL is at the forefront of producing a novel A H1N1 influenza vaccine, having signed a $180 million contract with U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services to provide the vaccine antigen in bulk form. CSL is also the originator of Merck's HPV vaccine Gardasil. CEO Brian McNamee talked with PharmAsia News' Australia bureau about CSL's operations at home and abroad.