Interactions with healthcare professionals

We hold ourselves to high ethical standards in our interactions with healthcare professionals to maintain our reputation and credibility.

PharmaNest interacts with healthcare professionals (often called HCPs) for the ultimate benefit of the patients we serve. Some of our core interactions relate to the sale and marketing of our products, research and development and other consulting services. To maintain our reputation and credibility, we are committed to ethical and compliant interactions with healthcare professionals in all of our business activities.

Our Company defines a healthcare professional as any person who is a member of the medical, dental, pharmacy or nursing profession, or who is affiliated with a healthcare organization, or any other person who, in the course of his or her professional activities, may prescribe, purchase, supply, recommend or administer a medicinal product, including any official or employee of a government agency.

All interactions with healthcare professionals must adhere to the Code and the Company’s policies and applicable procedures, which reflect applicable laws and industry codes. We should always focus on the benefit to patients when interacting with healthcare professionals.

Marketing interactions

While our products and solutions are “for research only use”, but might in the long term be deployed in the clinic, we are committed to ethically promoting our products and services and recognize the importance of providing healthcare professionals with the accurate scientific and medical information they need to make informed prescribing decisions.

Although the laws and regulations governing the promotion of pharmaceutical drugs to healthcare professionals vary by region, our Company has adopted the following global principles for all promotional and marketing-related interactions:

• We promote consistency with the approved product characteristics or indications.

• We make truthful, accurate, balanced, fair, objective and complete claims.

• We provide relevant product safety information.

• We do not provide any items or services to inappropriately influence or induce the use or recommendation of our products.

Research interactions

We are committed to scientific integrity in all of our research activities and recognize the important role healthcare professionals play in the development of new products and services. Research-based interactions with healthcare professionals are structured to maintain the independence and integrity of the research conducted. Moreover, our relationships with healthcare professionals conducting research related to our products and services may not inappropriately influence the design or results of research activities.

Other healthcare professional consultant interactions

We are committed to only engaging healthcare professionals for consultant services where there is a clearly defined need, legitimate purpose and scope. In such circumstances, healthcare professionals must be paid fair market value for services provided. Consultant interactions and payments may not be used to influence or induce the use or recommendation of our products and services.