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. He can be reached at nsaraceno@mjhlifesciences.com.

Videos

In the third part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Mark Lee, MarqVision’s founder and CEO, describes how AI-driven surveillance and image recognition vastly outpace traditional brand protection methods, enabling pharmaceutical companies to detect and remove millions of counterfeit listings across global online marketplaces and social media in real time.

AI-Powered Tools Transform Fight Against Counterfeit Drugs

In the second part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Mark Lee, MarqVision’s founder and CEO, explains how wide regional price gaps and lack of visibility in global distribution create openings for counterfeit sellers—with many now specializing in categories like oncology—who exploit platforms such as Facebook and Instagram to market fake drugs.

Counterfeiters Target Fragmented Pharma Supply Chains Through Digital Marketplaces

In the first part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Mark Lee, MarqVision’s founder and CEO, warns that counterfeiters are using generative AI to clone pharmaceutical packaging, build convincing fake websites, and manipulate search results. rapidly outpacing enforcement efforts and putting patients at serious risk.

AI-Powered Counterfeit Drug Schemes Pose Growing Threat to Patient Safety

Founder and Principal Consultant at 1st Line Partners.

Articles

Counterfeit drugs infiltrating the US pharma supply chain through gray market channels underscore the urgent need for vigilance.

Caveat Emptor in the Gray Market

In the sixth part of this roundtable discussion, subject matter experts discuss how serialization, traceability tools, and multi-layered authentication technologies are becoming essential to proactive quality contingency planning, as counterfeiters grow more sophisticated.

Peer Exchange: Leveraging Technology to Strengthen Pharma’s Fight Against Counterfeits (Episode 6)

These innovations are revolutionizing pharmaceutical packaging by enhancing drug safety, combating counterfeiting, ensuring regulatory compliance, and improving patient adherence across the supply chain.

Smart Packaging in Pharma: Driving Adherence and Safety Through Digital Innovation

In the final part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Sean O’Hearen, founder and principal consultant at 1st Line Partners, offers communication strategies for staying confident in genuine pharmaceuticals while also remaining vigilant against counterfeit threats.

Balancing Awareness and Assurance

In the fourth part of this roundtable discussion, a panel of subject matter experts dive into data exchange challenges relating to the Drug Supply Chain Security Act.

Peer Exchange: How DSCSA Is Transforming Supply Chain Data Exchange (Episode 4)

In the fourth part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Sean O’Hearen, founder and principal consultant at 1st Line Partners, describes the prominence of underreporting falsified medicines. 

The Hidden Challenge of Reporting Counterfeit Medicines

In the third part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Sean O’Hearen, founder and principal consultant at 1st Line Partners, recommends regulatory or verification mechanisms that can help safely legitimize online medicine procurement.

Brand & Product Security