Zealand teams up with Roche on clinical trials

Singapore - Zealand Pharma and Roche’s Diabetes Care unit will partner on Phase 3 clinical trials assess...

April 11, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Immunomedics appoints new CMO

Clinical Stage Company Immunomedics has announced the appointment of Robert Iannone as Head of Research & Developmen...

April 10, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Therapix Biosciences announces Topline Results for TSP

Therapix Biosciences Ltd., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel the...

April 10, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Amarantus reacquires three diagnostic tests

Singapore - Amarantus Bioscience Holdings has reacquired the rights to three neurology- focused diagnostic tests from Av...

April 9, 2018 | Monday | News
Study shows moms' brains hard-wired to gather young

Singapore - A mother's "basic instinct" to grab her wandering offspring and return them to the nest depends on a specifi...

April 6, 2018 | Friday | News
Feinstein, NIH launch groundbreaking clinical trial for new lupus medication

Singapore - Researchers at Northwell Health's Feinstein Institute for Medical Research are leading a nationwid...

April 5, 2018 | Thursday | News
Breakthrough test detects heroin and cocaine from fingerprint

Singapore - A fingerprint test published in AACC's Clinical Chemistry journal can tell whether someone has tak...

March 27, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Integrated program improves heart, stroke risk factors in diabetics

Singapore - Over a 10-year period, control of three key cardiovascular risk factors improved faster for Kaiser Permanent...

March 27, 2018 | Tuesday | News
United Neuroscience, CNRS collaborate for Parkinson's therapeutics

Singapore - United Neuroscience, announced that it has entered a research collaboration agreement with the Ronald Melki ...

March 27, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Ping An Technology receives recognition yet again

The results of the Indian Diabetic Retinopathy Image Dataset (IDRiD) fundus analysis competition organized by the IEEE I...

March 23, 2018 | Friday | News
New ALS gene discovered: KIF5A

Singapore – Researchers have identified a new ALS gene: KIF5A. This important gene discovery, funded by The A...

March 23, 2018 | Friday | News
Research connects stem cell therapy with restoring fertility

A new research suggests that young women with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) may be able to use their own bone ma...

March 19, 2018 | Monday | News
MDA collaborates with IQVIA to expand Disease Registry

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is enhancing and expanding its disease registry into a comprehensive data hub a...

March 16, 2018 | Friday | News
Pilatus Clinical Services receives WDL & GDP Certificate

As part of Pilatus Clinical Services ongoing plans to strengthen its position in Europe and as part of establishing a Gl...

March 14, 2018 | Wednesday | News
PAREXEL, CHA to enhance early phase clinical research in Korea

PAREXEL International Corporation, the world’s leading innovator of biopharmaceutical services, has announced an a...

March 14, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Temasek backs $90M funding for JW Therapeutics

A consortium of leading global investors including Temasek and Sequoia Capital China has joined the $90-millio...

March 10, 2018 | Saturday | News
Constant Pharma announces Japanese patent issuance

Constant Pharmaceuticals LLC, a privately held US based biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of stroke rec...

March 7, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Aequus, Ehave enter comprehensive patient data management collaboration

Singapore- Aequus Pharmaceuticals Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on developing, advancing and pro...

March 6, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Landmark genetic study better predicts stomach cancer

Singapore– A research team led by National University Health System (NUHS) and Duke-NUS Medical School has used ge...

March 4, 2018 | Sunday | News
MSD, Ferring complete clinical trial for Postpartum Haemorrhage

Ferring Pharmaceuticals and MSD, known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A., through its MSD for Moth...

March 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Tessa Therapeutics announces opening of recruitment sites across the United States for its Phase III trial

Singapore- based clinical stage immunotherapy company Tessa Therapeutics, announced that the Stanford Cancer Institute r...

February 8, 2018 | Thursday | News
Tychan’s Zika therapeutic ready for human trial

Singapore – Tychan, a Singapore clinical-stage biotechnology company, announced that its first-in-class monoc...

February 7, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Marken accelerates its reach and growth in clinical trial logistics

Singapore - Marken expanded its geographic reach and product portfolio in 2017, reinforcing its position as a leader in ...

February 6, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Study shows higher hospitalization risk for kidney patients receiving heart defibrillators

Singapore - In a study of nearly 6,000 community-based patients with chronic kidney disease and heart failure, the use o...

February 6, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Microbubbles make breast cancer more susceptible to radiation therapy

Singapore - Injecting breast cancer with oxygen-filled microbubbles makes tumors three-times more sensitive to radiation...

February 5, 2018 | Monday | News
Syndax announces immuno-oncology clinical trial collaboration with AstraZeneca

Singapore - Syndax Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing an innovative pipeline of canc...

February 1, 2018 | Thursday | News
Leaf system offers patients significant protection against pressure injuries

Singapore - A new clinical study by researchers at Stanford Health Care looked at whether a wearable patient sensor coul...

January 25, 2018 | Thursday | News
Previously unknown ocean virus family may also populate the human gut

Singapore - A newly discovered family of viruses appears to play a major role in killing marine bacteria and maintaining...

January 25, 2018 | Thursday | News
New study shows bacterial resistance to nanoparticles can be averted

Singapore – Scientists from the Palacký University (UP) in Olomouc have discovered a unique mechanism that ...

January 24, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi adopts TriNetX platform to speed clinical trials

TriNetX has announced that it will be assisting Sanofi by using patient EHRs to optimize recruitment, streamline trial i...

January 23, 2018 | Tuesday | News
German researchers propose new medication for malaria

Researchers from Tubingen Institute of Tropical Medicine and German company Deutschen Malaria GmbH have tested the effic...

January 22, 2018 | Monday | News
New study finds altering bone marrow can train innate immune system

Singapore - In a recent paper published in Cell, Penn Dental Medicine researchers collaborated ...

January 19, 2018 | Friday | News
Seoul tops the list of most clinical trials conducted in a city

Seoul ranks first in the world in number of clinical trials per city. It is meaningful that the city shows a significant...

January 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Marina Biotech announces agreement with Autotelic Bio

Biopharmaceutical company Marina Biotech has entered into a binding agreement with Korea based Autotelic Bio Inc., to en...

January 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Forty Seven Inc. to Collaborate on Immuno-Oncology Combination for Leukemia and Bladder Cancer

Forty Seven, a clinical-stage company focused on developing the next generation of transformational immuno-oncology trea...

January 15, 2018 | Monday | News
GCGR offers Potential drug target for type 2 diabetes

Class B G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) exert essential action in hormonal homeostasis and are important therapeutic...

January 4, 2018 | Thursday | Influencers
Proteomics and Dimerix partner to improve the treatment of kidney disease

Ausstralia-based Proteomics International (PI) has developed PromarkerD, a predictive and diagnostic test for diabetic k...

December 18, 2017 | Monday | News
Researchers show patients' own immune cells can fight deadly cancers

Singapore - Scientists have taken a significant step forward in efforts to harness our own white blood cells to fight de...

December 15, 2017 | Friday | News
Bioelectronic medicine to treat lupus

Singapore - Researchers at Northwell Health's Feinstein Institute for Medical Research are conducting a clinic...

December 15, 2017 | Friday | News
Roche announces Phase III study results for the treatment of people with advanced kidney cancer

Roche has announced that the Phase III IMmotion151 study met its co-primary endpoint of investigator-assessed progressio...

December 11, 2017 | Monday | News
Kevin Niswender named as the Director of the Clinical Research Center at Vanderbilt University

Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD, whose work has helped advance understanding of the neural underpinnings of obesity and metabol...

December 1, 2017 | Friday | News
Carrick Therapeutics announces first patient dosed in Phase 1 clinical trial of its Oral CDK7 inhibitor

Carrick Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the innovative research and development of transformative ...

December 1, 2017 | Friday | News
Drugmaker Acorda suffers after deaths in Parkinson's Trial

U.S. based Acorda Therapeutics Inc. suffered a rapid decrease by a record 40 percent after patients died in final-s...

November 16, 2017 | Thursday | News
Global Gene Corp collaboration aims to accelerate research into Cancers

Singapore - Global Gene Corp (UK based genomics data platform and applications company) announced a collaboration with T...

November 15, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Singapore scientists make a major breakthrough in fibrotic diseases

Singapore – Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the National Heart Centre Singapore ...

November 12, 2017 | Sunday | News
Significant cost reduction in COPD care with simple, drug-free device

The Aerobika device (Trudell Medical International) is a cost-effective treatment option in the management of COPD exace...

November 9, 2017 | Thursday | News
Sanofi walks away from Voyager’s phase 2/3 Parkinson’s gene therapy

Sanofi has decided to walk away from the Parkinson’s gene therapy covered by its $845 million alliance with V...

November 1, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New Study Indicates Bone Marrow Protein to be the Target for Improving Stem Cell Transplants

Singapore – Bone marrow contains hematopoietic stem cells, the precursors to every blood cell type. These cells sp...

November 1, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Preterm babies could be saved by delayed clamping of Umbilical Cord

Singapore – Thousands of preterm babies could be saved by waiting 60 seconds before clamping the umbilical cord af...

October 30, 2017 | Monday | News
Study shows how nerves drive prostate cancer 

Singapore - In a study in Science, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore Medicine, repo...

October 27, 2017 | Friday | News
New CSHL research hopes to find ways of altering fear memories

Singapore - Our brains wire themselves up during development according to a series of remarkable genetic programs that h...

October 24, 2017 | Tuesday | News
TB Alliance declares potential of two novel TB drugs

TB Alliance recently announced that TBA-7371 and sutezolid entered phase 1 clinical trials. Both compounds have proceede...

October 12, 2017 | Thursday | News
A Zika vaccine shows signs of success in an early human trial

A DNA-based Zika vaccine from Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc and South Korea’s GeneOne Life Science induced anti-Zika ...

October 9, 2017 | Monday | News
ABS plans to undertake human clinical trials in New Brunswick, Canada

Advanced Bifurcation Systems (ABS or the Company), a clinical stage medical device company developing an innovative sten...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
ASCO and Friends of Cancer Research say cancer clinical trials should be inclusive of broader range of patients

Clinical trials researching cancer therapies should be more inclusive of a broader range of patients, according to the A...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
Researchers rattled by the revised definition of clinical trials

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to enforce the new rules which are based on a revised definition of &...

October 5, 2017 | Thursday | News
New drug approved for fighting cholesterol

A newly-developed drug which has recently been approved for use in Singapore may aid in the fight against cholesterol. ...

October 4, 2017 | Wednesday | News
FDA puts hold on clinical trials for CAR-T cell therapy

French biotech firm Cellectis has revealed that the Food and Drug Administration has put a clinical holdon two of its cl...

September 18, 2017 | Monday | News
Startup Antidote raises £11m

Antidote Technologies, a clinical trial matching platform, has raised £11m in a funding round led by Merck Global ...

September 15, 2017 | Friday | News
TPG Capital Asia acquires major stake in Taiwan clinical trial firm

TPG Capital Asia, a global investment firm has acquired a majority stake in Taiwan-based clinical trial services provide...

September 4, 2017 | Monday | News
PolyU discovers a new superbug - hyper-resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae 

Singapore – The Partner State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences at the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Te...

September 1, 2017 | Friday | News
Protea expands clinical study for new melanoma test

Singapore - Protea Biosciences Group announced that it has expanded its clinical research study for its new molecular im...

August 28, 2017 | Monday | News
Titan Pharmaceuticals receives FDA clearance to begin clinical study of Parkinson's Disease treatment

Titan Pharmaceuticals (a US based pharmaceutical company) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...

August 26, 2017 | Saturday | News
CHRISTUS Health joins TriNetX Health Research Network to accelerate clinical trial efforts

Singapore – TriNetX global health research network announced that it has signed on to CHRISTUS Health (a US-based ...

August 23, 2017 | Wednesday | News
LabCorp to acquire Chiltern for $1.2 billion in cash

LabCorp, a leading global life sciences company, and Chiltern, a specialty CRO, announced that LabCorp will acquire Chil...

August 3, 2017 | Thursday | News
BioFluidica pumps $4.1M funding to back its research for cancer diagnosis development

BioFluidica, a Chapel Hill company developing a product using liquid biopsies for cancer detection, has raised $4.1 mill...

August 3, 2017 | Thursday | News
New TeaCrine clinical trial illustrates increased potency when combined with caffeine

Singapore - Compound Solutions, global distributor of patent-protected TeaCrine, announced several ground-breaking findi...

August 1, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Largest body of evidence on clinical benefits of patient warming now available

Singapore – The largest body of evidence detailing the clinical benefits of patient warming, recently updated and ...

July 31, 2017 | Monday | News
Novotech signs MOU with South Korea's SCI-Consortium and Severance Hospital

Singapore - Asia Pacific specialist CRO Novotech announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understandi...

July 31, 2017 | Monday | News
Novel device shows promise for early identification of serious strokes

Singapore - Cerebrotech Medical Systems, an innovative medical device company focused on the development of portabl...

July 27, 2017 | Thursday | News
SAP Partners with National Cancer Centre Singapore to advance cancer treatment

Singapore - SAP SE and the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) announced a co-innovation project to h...

July 26, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Incyte launches Phase-III trial for assessing GVHD candidate Itacinib

Incyte Corporation announced that the first patient treated has been treated in Incyte’s Phase III clinical trial,...

July 24, 2017 | Monday | News
Partnering cells turn off immune attack on pancreatic tumors

Singapore - Two cell types work together to protect pancreatic tumors from destruction by the immune system. But, blocki...

July 19, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Novotech and Sonic Clinical Trials signs central lab services agreement

Novotech recently announced that it has expanded its business offering to include central lab services through a preferr...

June 27, 2017 | Tuesday | News
“There is also a need to increase awareness about the good that clinical research has done for patients”

The Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR), an association of clinical research professionals, has announced the ap...

June 19, 2017 | Monday | Opinion
Rna Diagnostics initiates clinical trials

Canada-based cancer diagnostics firm Rna Diagnostics has initiated the breast cancer response evaluation for individuali...

June 16, 2017 | Friday | News
'Now, India has a balanced, scientific regulatory framework for clinical trials'

With new regulations in place India is gaining traction in the clinical trial space again. Your thoughts on this?  ...

June 6, 2017 | Tuesday | Opinion
E-clinical trials move towards personalized medicine

Speaking to BioSpectrum Asia, Ms Andrea Zobel, Senior Director of Product Management, Clinical Trial Supplies and Logist...

June 2, 2017 | Friday | Opinion
APAC on the Rise: Developing multinational clinical trial success

Sebastian Bather President, APAC and Japan at inVentiv Health With drug sponsors increasingly challenged to recruit suf...

June 2, 2017 | Friday | Analysis
Diversity and complexity create a great opportunity for CROs in Asia

1. Jonathan Newton Executive Director, Clinical Operations, PRA Health Sciences, 2. Kent Thoelke Executive Vice Presiden...

June 2, 2017 | Friday | Analysis
APAC is the fastest growing market for CRO industry

“The CRO market in APAC, the fastest growing region in the world, has been increasing at a CAGR of 19.5 percent,&r...

June 2, 2017 | Friday | Opinion
"E-clinical trials are the logical enabler and consequence of the future of medicine"

The rising cost and complexity of clinical research is compromising new drug research and development. Speaking to BioSp...

May 23, 2017 | Tuesday | Influencers
New hope in a ground-breaking clinical trial

Researchers at the University of Southampton and the University of Leicester are trialing a drug that could boost the bo...

May 19, 2017 | Friday | News
FDA Approves 1st Drug for Treating Aggressive Multiple Sclerosis

Genentech, a member of the Roche Group recently announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved OCREVUSTM...

April 20, 2017 | Thursday | News
RedHill Biopharma announces dosing of first patient in the phase III study with RHB-104

RedHill Biopharma Ltd., a specialty biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the development and commercialization...

March 22, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Oral OTEZLA demonstrated significant improvement versus Placebo in clinical trial

Celgene Corporation announced that results from its phase 4 UNVEIL trial evaluating OTEZLA (apremilast), the Company's o...

March 14, 2017 | Tuesday | News
New research reveals Asia as preferred destination for clinical trials

Frost & Sullivan released its latest white paper, 'Asia: Preferred Destination for Clinical Trials', with Asia Pacif...

March 3, 2017 | Friday | News
Jan Medical and University of Wyoming join together to advance concussion detection technology

Student athletes from the University of Wyoming (UW) are being asked to volunteer in a clinical study to further develop...

February 23, 2017 | Thursday | News
Eli lilly's Alzheimer drug candidate fails in clinical trial

Singapore: Eli Lilly's new experiment candidate to fight Alzheimer's disease, solanezumab failed in a major clinical tri...

November 24, 2016 | Thursday | News
Nearly 80% of data in Chinese clinical trials have been fabricated

Singapore: A recent investigation led by the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) revealed that nearly 80 p...

October 3, 2016 | Monday | News
India's resurgence as a clinical trial destination

Singapore: Factors such as technically competent workforce, large genetically diverse population, easy patient availabil...

September 21, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific opens new clinical services facility in Korea

Singapore: With a view to address the growing demand in clinical services, Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a new cli...

September 19, 2016 | Monday | News
Catalent opens new clinical supply facility on its Japan campus

US-based Catalent Pharma Solutions has announced the opening of its clinical supply facility, located within its 200,000...

June 9, 2016 | Thursday | News
India's contribution a mere 2% in clinical research

Singapore: Despite being home to one sixth of the world's population and carrying one fifth of the world's disease burde...

August 29, 2014 | Friday | News
Indian govt relaxes clinical trial norms

Singapore: In a bid to woo global researchers and improve the clinical trial landscape in the country, the Indian govern...

August 9, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Takara Bio wins deal to distribute WaferGen's single cell research products in APAC

California-based WaferGen Bio-systems Inc has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement in Japan with Takara Bio ...

June 7, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Lambda appointed new president

Singapore: Lambda Therapeutic Research announces the joining of Dr Tausif Monif as President - Global Operations. Lambd...

April 18, 2016 | Monday | News
Vedic CRO to expand in Malaysia

Singapore: Vedic Lifesciences, a contract research organization (CRO), is going to set up an operational base in Malaysi...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Aurinia to initiate first clinical study of Voclosporin in Japan

NASDAQ-listed Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc has announced that after constructive interactions with the Japanese Pharmaceu...

May 10, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Veristat acquires UK-based CRO Spero Oncology

Veristat, a full service Clinical Research Organization (CRO), has announced that it is expanding its clinical research ...

May 3, 2016 | Tuesday | News

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