Post-chemotherapy pain killer trial begins

Singapore: Spinifex Pharmaceuticals, an Australian pain drug development company, announced that the first set of patie...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
ICM Pharma invests €5.25 mn in Alloksys Life Sciences

Singapore: Dutch based Alloksys Life Sciences BV has signed and closed agreements with the fastest growing local pharmac...

May 31, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Asia wide CRO round-up-Annual BSA CRO survey

CHINA: Registered Ongoing Clinical Trial: 6501• China issued new guidelines for clinical research companies to con...

October 11, 2015 | Sunday | Analysis
Maruishi completes phase II ARDS drug trials for Finland's Faron Pharma

Finland-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Faron Pharmaceuticals Ltd has announced that its Japanese licensi...

January 8, 2016 | Friday | News
ISCR invites patient participation in International Clinical Trials Day logo contest

In an endeavor to reflect the real significance of Patients First, its continuing theme for International Clinical Trial...

April 12, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Targovax's immunotherapeutic clinical trial gets a go in Australia

NASDAQ-listed Targovax has received approval in Australia to conduct a study with TG02 and pembrolizumab, a checkpoint i...

June 6, 2016 | Monday | News
Mallinckrodt's pharmaceutical gas approved in Australia and Japan

Tokyo: United Kingdom's Mallinckrodt plc has announced that INOmax (nitric oxide) for inhalation has received regulator...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Quintiles, local Indonesian CRO join hands for first-ever diabetes study

Singapore: Indonesia is now part of a Quintiles diabetes study that's expected to enroll about 14,000 patients globally....

October 25, 2012 | Thursday | News
ImaginAb, Singapore Radiopharmaceuticals sign agreement

Singapore: ImaginAb, a developer of in vivo molecular imaging agents based on its proprietary antibody fragment platform...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Japan's BoZo chooses Instem as SEND Outsourcing Partner

Instem, a leading provider of IT solutions to the global early development healthcare market, has announced that BoZo Re...

June 6, 2016 | Monday | News
What is needed for a successful trial supply management service in APAC?

Singapore: Today there is true growth potential in the Asian clinical trials market. Read any market report and this is ...

September 16, 2015 | Wednesday | Opinion
Quintiles and Biogen Idec ink pact

Singapore: Quintiles and US-based biotech company Biogen Idec have entered into a five-year strategic clinical developme...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo expands access to clinical trial data

Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd has decided to share clinical trial data to qualified researchers through the clinicalstudydatareq...

February 2, 2016 | Tuesday | News
ICON, IBM partner to optimize clinical trial outcome

Singapore: Clinical research organization, ICON, has collaborated with IBM to help reduce the time and costs of drug dev...

September 21, 2015 | Monday | News
Japanese stem cell company ReproCELL acquires Biopta

Tokyo: Japanese regenerative medicine company ReproCELL Inc. has announced the acquisition of the Scottish life science...

November 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
Clinlogix launches Asia-Pacific division with offices in Singapore, Tokyo

Leading contract research organization Clinlogix, a full suite provider of clinical development services for medical dev...

February 11, 2016 | Thursday | News
Managing a Chain Reaction: The emergence of strategic outsourcing in Asia Pacific for global pharmaceutical trials

The number of biopharmaceutical clinical trials either being conducted or organized in the Asia Pacific region is increa...

October 12, 2015 | Monday | Opinion
The rise of Investigator-Initiated Trials

Singapore: We are generally more familiar with the pharmaceutical led trials, where the pharmaceutical companies develop...

October 12, 2015 | Monday | Opinion
Covance recieves Frost and Sullivan Award

Singapore: Covance, a global drug development company, has recieved the 2014 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific CRO Growt...

October 17, 2014 | Friday | News
New technologies in CRO'-Annual BSA CRO Survey

With the rise in clinical research activities, the industry is undergoing constant evolution. CROs are developing and ex...

October 18, 2015 | Sunday | Analysis
India to be Asia Pacific region hub for QED

UK-headquartered QED Clinical Services, recently, enhanced its global delivery of clinical trials by creating a wholly ...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
CRO Survey 2014: CRO Landscape across APAC

Singapore: Asia has earned the status of a fast growing market for clinical research due to its diverse population, fast...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
MNCs are investing in Asia: Annual BSA CRO Survey

Market analysis company, BMI Research, reflects that developed countries need to build strategies to maintain the attrac...

October 10, 2015 | Saturday | Analysis
BBK Worldwide opens Tokyo office; appoints new Managing Director

BBK Worldwide, a leading clinical trial marketing firm, has appointed Toshio Mori to Managing Director of Operations, Ja...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News
Gore's new endovascular therapy set to go for trials in Japan and US

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has consented to the ...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News
577 clinical trial sites inspected in India

Singapore: The Indian Health Ministry has said that the regulatory authorities in the country have so far inspected 577 ...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
South African centers join Pfizer clinical trial network

Singapore: South African-based Synexus' clinical research centers Stanza, Watermeyer and Nyeleti will join Pfizer's worl...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | News
China, Korea lead Asian clinical trials

According to market report published by Persistence Market Research "Global Market Study on Clinical Trial Management Sy...

October 9, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
US-based ERT expands in Japan

Singapore: ERT, a US-based service provider to biopharmaceutical organizations, medical device companies and contract re...

January 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
International Clinical trials day Special: Asia's clinical trials landscape

Singapore: Clinical trials were once undertaken largely in the West. However many Asian countries are now emerging as to...

May 20, 2015 | Wednesday | News
NextDocs expands customer list by more than 10%

Singapore: NextDocs, the global leader in compliance solutions for regulated industries, announced that it has expanded ...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
GVK BIO eyes top spot among Asian CROs

Singapore: In a bid to race ahead to be among the top three Asian clinical research organizations in the next five years...

July 18, 2014 | Friday | News
Japan's IDA selects OmniComm Systems' clinical data management solution

OmniComm Systems Inc., a provider of clinical data management technology, announces the selection of the company's Proma...

June 16, 2015 | Tuesday | News
CROs and pharma support 'Bring Your Own Device' approach for clinical studies: ICON survey

Singapore: ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and m...

July 4, 2016 | Monday | News
WuXi signs to be exclusive supplier to Lee Pharma

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech's Laboratory Testing Division (LTD) has partnered with Lee Pharma as an exclusive supplier of...

August 27, 2015 | Thursday | News
QPS to deploy preclinical data management system, Pristima Suite

Singapore: QPS Taiwan, a global preclinical toxicology services provider, has been selected to deploy Pristima Suite, w...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Tarceva tablets with Nexavar show no improvement

Singapore: A phase III trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of the addition of Tarceva (erlotinib) tablets to Nexava...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
NIH launches clinical trial focused on HIV-related CV disease

Singapore: Researchers have begun enrolling participants in to a multicenter international clinical trial to test whethe...

April 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
BeiGene to build its first cGMP facility in Suzhou BioBAY

Singapore: China's BeiGene, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing molecularly-targeted and im...

August 27, 2015 | Thursday | News
Intercept-Sumitomo completes liver cirrhosis drug's phase II trials

Tokyo: Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc has announced the results of a 72-week phase II dose ranging trial of obeticholic a...

November 2, 2015 | Monday | News
PPD partners with CISYS LifeSciences

Pharmaceutical Product Development(PPD) and CISYS LifeSciences has announced PPD's implementation of Sequence WebEAS, a ...

September 8, 2015 | Tuesday | News
QPS CRO opens office in China

Singapore: QPS Holdings, a leading full-service clinical research organization, announced the launch of its QPS Qualiti...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Cellmid gets positive data in midkine study

Singapore: Cellmid has completed its first in-life diabetic nephropathy study with the company's anti-midkine antibodie...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi's dengue vaccine candidate shows positive results

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi has published clinical study results of its dengue vaccine ca...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
The evolving clinical trial landscape of Asia

Singapore: At a recent Pharma CI Conference & Exhibition Asia held in Tokyo, Citeline, a leading research authority ...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Quest Life Sciences receives WHO notice: Reports

Singapore: According to reports, Quest Life Sciences has received a 'notice of concern', or NoC from the World Health Or...

July 8, 2015 | Wednesday | News
AMA receives new clinical trials registry

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has welcomed a new register for clinical trials in the country for patients to ...

May 20, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Chugai opens North American Hub in New Jersey

Tokyo: Chugai Pharma USA Inc. (CPUSA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical Co Ltd. has officially...

November 23, 2015 | Monday | News
OxOnc, Pfizer drug trial to be held in Asia

Singapore: OxOnc Development, an oncology development company founded by pharmaceutical development executives and oncol...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Japan Pharma Manufacturers Association partners with Medidata

Singapore: Medidata, a provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research, has collaborated with Japan Pharmaceutic...

September 1, 2015 | Tuesday | News
A re-think on site staff competency training required

When drugs are trialed in patients, they move into a clinical setting in which the busy routine care of patients, rath...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Catalent Pharma opens new clinical supply facility in Japan

Tokyo: New Jersey-headquartered Catalent Pharma Solutions, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies...

January 20, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Strong clinical trial infrastructure puts Australia in a strong position

Australia's strong history of quality and experience in clinical research is well known, and whilst being a comparativ...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Crizotinib phase II study in East Asian Patients meets end point expectations

OxOnc Development LP has announced that Study OO-1201, a phase II open-label, single-arm study of crizotinib in East Asi...

June 6, 2016 | Monday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Asian CROs optimistic in a gloomy pharma market

Over the past four years, BioSpectrum Asia in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR) has been capturing the key br...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Cogstate bets big on its cognitive test Cognigram

Singapore: Australian company Cogstate has earned overall revenue of $6.14 million and a net loss of $0.49 million in th...

February 20, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Parexel acquires regulatory info firm Liquent

Singapore: Parexel International has acquired all of the outstanding equity securities of Liquent, a leading global prov...

December 28, 2012 | Friday | News
Local CROs and their challenges

Singapore: Monitoring a clinical study is an important challenge faced by local as well as global CRO where the sponsor ...

October 14, 2014 | Tuesday | Opinion
Dystrophy association, Quintiles make patient registry

Singapore: Quintiles and Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) have formed a partnership to develop and implement the US ...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Novotech expands in Asia

Singapore: Australia based Novotech has strengthened its Hong Kong operation with expansion of its manpower base. The c...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
WHO demands transparency in clinical trial results

Singapore: In a study that analysed reports from large clinical trials (more than 500 participants), registered on Clini...

April 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
URMC launches new heart device trial in Asia

Singapore: Cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, US, are launching a new study in an effort to im...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
EU court thwarts AbbVie attempt to access data

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has been ordered by the General Court of the European Union not to provide do...

May 2, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Translation of ideas is Australia's key to growth'

Over the past decade the world's centre of economic gravity has shifted from US and Europe to Asia at a speed and scale ...

September 30, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
WuXi acquires US based CRO

Singapore: Pharma and biotech R&D service provider, WuXi PharmaTech, has acquired XenoBiotic Laboratories, a contrac...

October 2, 2014 | Thursday | News
INC research expands presence in Japan with new Osaka office

INC Research Holdings Inc, a leading, global phase I to IV contract research organization (CRO), has announced the reloc...

May 26, 2016 | Thursday | News
CRO Survey: Trials across China

Singapore: Clinical trials registered: 5,276 Growth in China's clinical research sector is projected to be around 20 per...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
NIH gets candid on Indian clinical trial cancellations

Singapore: Days after cancelling around 40 ongoing clinical trials in India, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
There are no winners in the clinical trials race in Asia

Over the past few decades, research on clinical trials has enjoyed a rapid boom around the world. According to CenterWat...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
ICON reports $286 mn revenue, pulls out of ISE

Singapore: ICON, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical d...

November 5, 2012 | Monday | Company results
Australia to boost clinical trial landscape

Singapore: Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has taken up the task of implementing initia...

August 22, 2014 | Friday | News
Max Neeman reaches key milestone in services

Bangalore: Max Neeman International announced that they have provided data management services to over 60 countries and ...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Ampio takes drug candidate to preclinical stage

Singapore: Ampio Pharmaceuticals has taken its candidate NCE001 from its proprietary methylphenidate derivatives family ...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
US CRO appoints new Asia director

Singapore: US-based Harlan Laboratories, a leading contract research organization (CRO) and research models and service...

February 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
WuXi PharmaTech appoints William Keller to Board

Singapore: China bioscience service provider, WuXi PharmaTech, has appointed Mr William Robert Keller as an independent ...

October 1, 2014 | Wednesday | Influencers
BioClinica launches eHealth platform

Singapore: With a view to further streamline its clinical trial operations and better serve customers, BioClinica, a spe...

August 11, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi dengue vaccine demonstrates proof of efficacy

Singapore: The tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate of Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, demonstrated pro...

July 25, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Paul Hutchison: Ushering in a revolution in NZ's clinical trial sector

Dr Paul Hutchison is ushering in a new era in the history of New Zealand's healthcare sector. Dr Hutchison, a parliament...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | Influencers
Quintiles acquires Encore Health Resources

Singapore: Global clinical research organization, Quintiles has acquired Encore Health Resources, a health-information a...

July 3, 2014 | Thursday | News
PAREXEL launches real time clinical trial analysis platform

Singapore: Parexel International has launched the next generation of its Perceptive MyTrials platform with advanced anal...

July 30, 2015 | Thursday | News
Evolving trends in clinical trial designs

In the current competitive era of drug development, establishing the superiority of a new medical intervention compared ...

October 9, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
Strategic site selection could help reduce study delays

With surveys indicating that 70 percent of clinical trials across Asia, Europe, Canada and Latin America experience dela...

October 9, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
Rate of drug approvals dips down: Nature Study

Singapore: Nature Biotechnology has published a peer-reviewed paper co-authored by the Biotechnology Industry Organizati...

January 10, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
CPR ventures into large molecule analytics

Singapore: Clinical research company, CPR Pharma Services, launched a new laboratory, in Adelaide, Australia, to provide...

March 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Is guinea pig theory an overhyped myth?

Singapore: Ms Radhika (name changed), a patient who has been a part of the clinical trials being done on a drug that cou...

August 30, 2014 | Saturday | News
NZ can generate $300 mn from clinical trials by 2020

New Zealand is taking steps to improve the environment surrounding the country's clinical trial domain. With no accurate...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Patients back-out from trials fearing AV consent'

Singapore: The discussion was led by Ms Suneela Thatte, president, ISCR, and Dr Bapsy, senior consultant and head of dep...

August 30, 2014 | Saturday | News
Merck Serono, Quintiles sign clinical research deal

Singapore: Merck Serono and Quintiles have signed a new, five-year clinical development agreement. This strategic collab...

May 16, 2013 | Thursday | News
US diagnostic lab expands in China

Singapore: ACM Global Central Laboratory, US-based diagnostic central laboratory, has expanded in China with the opening...

September 10, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Sihuan Pharmaceuticals inks a deal with Covance

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceuticals recently announced that its subsidiary Shandong Xuanzhu has partnered with Covance, a ...

April 7, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Australia to get independent clinical trial regulatory authority

Australia, often regarded by market experts as the most mature clinical research market in Asia Pacific, has leveraged s...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Pluristem's regenerative medicine convinces Japan PMDA

Singapore: Pluristem Therapeutics, an Israel-based developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, has announced that...

May 14, 2015 | Thursday | News
Quintiles officially opens regional HQ in China

Singapore: Quintiles has officially opened Greater China Regional Headquarters, further expanding its ability to help Ch...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
Australia launches website to enroll trial patients

Singapore: Ms Tanya Plibersek, federal Minister for Health, and Mr Greg Combet, Minister for Innovation and Industry, Au...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News
Dr Gautam Daftary: The Indian biologics pioneer

Indian company Bharat Serums and Vaccines boasts of a product portfolio that includes many firsts in India and the world...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
BSA-CMR Survey: CROs hopeful despite stifled growth

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Indian government framing new clinical trial law

Singapore: The Indian Supreme Court on July 26 heard a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a ban on drug trials in ...

July 26, 2013 | Friday | News
FDA approves Jubilant's molecule for drug trials

Singapore: Indian pharmaceutical company based in Bangalore, Jubilant Biosys has said that the US Food and Drug Administ...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Alchemia recruits patients for rectal cancer trial

Singapore: Brisbane-based R&D company Alchemia has recruited the 390th patient for the pivotal phase III clinical tr...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
COPD in Asia is a gathering storm

Predictions for the burden and impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have exceeded all expectations. In...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion

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