Pioneering Healthcare at Tiefenbacher Group

At Tiefenbacher Group, we believe that our expertise must be leveraged for the greater good – to improve patients’ lives worldwide by pioneering healthcare. Our core values of being CURIOSITY DRIVEN, EXCELLENCE FOCUSED, and PATIENT CENTERED guide our actions and decisions every day. These values help us achieve our purpose of making high-quality pharmaceuticals more affordable, more available, and better than ever before.

But what does it mean to be “excellence focused”? We asked our TIEFENBACHER GROUP Managing Director, Dr. Kristian Ruepp, to elaborate:

How does Tiefenbacher Group’s commitment to being “Patient Centered” shape your approach to pharmaceutical development?

It starts with asking questions and then just listening – to patients, doctors, nurses, payers and many more stakeholders. When you then add a genuine curiosity to understand the challenges in the lives of patients and a motivation to challenge the status quo, then we always find great ideas for new development projects.

Can you provide examples of how Tiefenbacher ensures its products are accessible and affordable for patients, and why these aspects are essential to your mission?

In terms of accessibility we see many countries worldwide, in which highly important pharmaceuticals have never been launched by big pharma companies and patients therefore have no access to these therapeutic options. In many cases we are the first to launch such pharmaceuticals with our partners in such countries and provide access to these valuable drugs to patients.

Affordability of pharmaceuticals is a main driver behind generics or better affordable medicines. Without the savings, which off-patent, affordable medicines deliver to the societies, there would be no money left to fund new innovative drugs. At Tiefenbacher we are mainly driven by being the first to offer more affordable medicines and supplying the markets reliably at a highly competitive price.

With our development capabilities, our global supplier network and our manufacturing sites we are a driver to make medicines more affordable together with our marketing partners.

How does Tiefenbacher Group incorporate patient feedback and insights from healthcare professionals into its products and services?

One example comes into my mind with this question. Several years back, we heard from patients and doctors that a well-known pharmaceutical for treating a disease of the central nervous system causes severe gastro intestinal side effects for many patients in their life-long treatment. We understood that the reason for these side effects was based on the highly reactive chemical structure of this pharmaceutical substance.

We decided to develop a pro-drug to reduce these sides effects. Today we are very happy that we received the marketing authorization in Europe and could prove in a safety study that we reduce significantly these gastric side effects. Many patients will benefit from our idea and this pharmaceutical help patients live a healthier life.

At Tiefenbacher Group, the focus on excellence is the foundation of our pioneering approach to healthcare. We are excited about the future and remain committed to improving patients´ lives globally.

Feel free to reach out for more insights into our journey or to join us in pioneering the future of healthcare!