BMS, Celgene collaborate on a combination trial

Singapore: BioPharmaceutical major Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and Celgene have teamed up to conduct a combination clinic...

August 31, 2014 | Sunday | News
International Clinical trials day Special: India to decide on its regulations

Singapore: "The regulatory pathway is in place, a compensation system is in place, and with the call for 'Make in India'...

May 20, 2015 | Wednesday | News
BIO shows the way on sharing clinical trials data

In the past decade, clinical trials have become a controversial topic across the world despite the demonstrated effectiv...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
Quintiles to celebrate Best Workplace award on Facebook

Singapore: Quintiles has been recognized as one of the World's Best Multinational Workplaces by the Great Place to Work ...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Novotech expands its services into China

Singapore: Novotech, Australia's largest Clinical Research Organization, has expanded its Asia business by opening a new...

October 6, 2014 | Monday | News
Clinical Outsourcing Models: "Drive a Hybrid"

Singapore: When we think "hybrid" we think of taking the best components from often opposing approaches and forming a ne...

June 2, 2015 | Tuesday | Opinion
BMS, Pfizer to present clinical trials data on Eliquis

Singapore: The new clinical trial data and New Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research (GHEOR) analyses assessing ...

August 30, 2014 | Saturday | News
Parexel acquires Turkish firm

Singapore: Parexel, a global clinical research organization with strong base in Asia, has acquired all outstanding equit...

July 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Indian authority invites opinion on guidelines for clinical trials

Mumbai: The Central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSCO ), the governing authority in India for conducting clinica...

August 13, 2012 | Monday | News
Abbvies' brain tumour drug gets orphan drug status

Singapore: The drug maker Abbvie, has stated that both the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) and European Medicine...

August 7, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Y brain Korea receives $3.5mn Series A funding

Singapore: Korea-based healthcare wearables start-up firm, Y brain, has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding for its ...

August 28, 2014 | Thursday | News
Demand for generics in Asia is drawing pharma majors

The clinical trials market in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region has been steadily growing with increased focus primarily on...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
US based IndiPharm gets BioNexus status

Singapore: IndiPharm, a clinical development organization, headquartered in US, has been awarded BioNexus status from th...

July 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
ProNAi licenses cancer drug candidate from Carna Biosciences

Vancouver located ProNAi Therapeutics Inc, a clinical-stage oncology company advancing novel targeted therapeutics for p...

June 1, 2016 | Wednesday | News
More clinical trials are being conducted across Asia'

Singapore: Medidata, a global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life science industry, recently...

October 12, 2015 | Monday | Opinion
Supreme court defers hearing on clinical trials

Singapore: Ongoing hearing of public interest litigation (PIL) filed by an NGO, Swasthya Adhikar Manch, that was suppose...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
AMRI receives NIH contract for clinical drug product

Singapore: Clinical research firm, AMRI, has received a 10-year federal contract award from the National Institutes of H...

January 23, 2015 | Friday | News
Good patient retention for clinical trials gives an edge to Vietnam

The clinical research environment in Vietnam has grown in the right direction with some remarkable achievement, in the...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | Opinion
WuXi, PRA collaborate to provide services in China

‎Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, a leading contract research organization with operations in China US, and PRA have si...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Australia is the new hotspot for clinical research

As everyone already knows, the international pharmaceutical industry is currently undergoing a number of significant cha...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Cloud technology for seamless clinical trials

Singapore: India's second largest IT firm Infosys has unveiled a cloud-based solution to speed up clinical trials and lo...

June 6, 2014 | Friday | News
PPD forms JV to tap Japan clinical trial market

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) and Japan based Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL) have form...

April 9, 2015 | Thursday | News
BMS, Duke Clinical Research Institute tie up

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb is looking forward to bring more transparency in its clinical trials and has partnered w...

June 26, 2014 | Thursday | News
PAREXEL launches clinical trial data monitor solution

Singapore: PAREXEL International has launched an integrated suite of applications for managing clinical trials called Pe...

May 21, 2014 | Wednesday | News
South Korea gives tax breaks, establishes R&D fund

The world of pharmaceuticals is becoming more global. As the financial performance of many pharmaceutical companies co...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | Opinion
8K Miles buys CRO Software Startup to foray into pharma biz

Singapore: This agreement includes acquisitions of intellectual property, client contracts and employees. The acquisiti...

March 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
Anuradha Rajput: Enjoy challenges to overcome them

I received my MSc in Biochemistry in 1986, and my PhD in Biochemistry in 1992 both from the University of Mysore in Indi...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
The India challenge for clinical research

Once upon a time, not so long ago, India's clinical research industry was one of the most highly sought after destinat...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
CRO survey: India, China dominate market

...

November 24, 2012 | Saturday | Analysis
PPD appoints Mr Robert Hureau as CFO

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development, (PPD) has appointed Mr Robert Hureau as executive vice president and chie...

August 26, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Breast cancer drug market to touch $13.1 bn by 2020'

Singapore: Increased use of targeted therapies, along with a greater uptake of branded drugs and rising incidence popula...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Liposome to begin phase-II trials for its cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan-based drugmaker, Liposome announced that it had received approval from the Chinese government to begin...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Drug development challenges and opportunities in Asia

Singapore: Approximately 15 years ago, PAREXEL envisioned Asia would becomean important player in clinical research and ...

November 13, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
Malaysia urges graduates to pursue clinical research

Singapore: Malaysia is making efforts to develop expertise in various scientific and clinical disciplines among its grad...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Novartis finds no evidence of wrongdoing in clinical trials

Singapore: Novartis Pharma KK has found no evidence that data on clinical trials for its hypertension drug Diovan had be...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Oramed, Medpace CRO join hands for oral insulin trial

Singapore: Oramed Pharmaceuticals subsidiary signed an agreement to retain Medpace as the clinical research organization...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Study finds 600 new genes mutated in stomach cancer

Singapore: A collaborative study conducted by three research groups affiliated with the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School...

June 3, 2013 | Monday | News
Sigma-Aldrich unit enters Korea with CrystalGenomics

Singapore: Sigma-Aldrich's custom manufacturing and services business unit, SAFC, has signed an agreement with Seoul-bas...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
India approved 26 drugs without clinical trials

New Delhi: Officials in the Indian health ministry have admitted that about 26 new drug molecules were given approval si...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
FDA offers guidance on Alzheimer's drug development

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposal designed to assist companies developing new treatme...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | News
SIRO wins Frost & Sullivan CRO award

Mumbai: SIRO Clinpharm has been awarded the Indian Clinical Research Organization of the Year 2012 Award by Frost & ...

September 27, 2012 | Thursday | News
Clinical Research Network gives Singapore its competitive edge

Singapore has a good track record of conducting high quality clinical trials in Asia, attributed to the highly qualifi...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | Opinion
Mr Denzil Benjamin, ICON: New guidelines by India's CDSCO will re-define the industry in 2013

Adapting technology and tools to address the issues of increasing research and development (R&D) costs, slow results...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
India strengthens clinical trial regulations

In a bid to strengthen the regulation and monitoring of clinical trials in the country, the Indian government has announ...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
PAREXEL inks services deal with Taiwan hospital

Singapore: Taiwan's PAREXEL International, a biopharmaceutical services provider, and National Taiwan University Hospita...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Merger and Acquisition in CRO-Annual BSA CRO Survey

According to business intelligence provider, GBI Research, total number of deals in the global contract research organiz...

October 11, 2015 | Sunday | Analysis
Fight between local and global CROs intensifies

Mr Malcolm Burgess relocated to Hong Kong in 2011 to take up the role of executive vice president of ICON with special r...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Malaysia to build on its clinical research potential

Malaysia's aspiration is to be a developed nation by the year 2020. With 10 years more to prepare for this anticipated...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
PPD acquires patient recruitment firm Acurian

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development, (PPD) has acquired Acurian, a service provider of clinical trial patient ...

August 28, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo extends Medidata Clinical Cloud use to China

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo is expanding its use of US-based Medidata Solutions' cloud-based platform to support clinical ...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
CROs and BPOs give pharmacovigilance a new edge

Demand in emerging markets is opening up newer opportunities across various sectors and life sciences companies have sev...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
China: Emerging drug discovery destination

China's growing economic strength and population of 1.3 billion people holds tremendous potential for global pharma and ...

April 13, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
Linear Clinical Research wins Emerging Exporter Award

Singapore: Australian company Linear Clinical Research has won the Emerging Exporter of the year Award at the 50th annua...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
India's CRO industry raises concerns at workshop

New Delhi: At a media workshop on the clinical research industry (CRO) held at Delhi on July 13, 2012, industry experts ...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | News
Senz starts phase II cancer trial

Singapore: Senz Oncology announced that the first patient has commenced treatment in a phase I/II clinical evaluati...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
India suffers adverse effects of clinical research

Everything does not seem to be well in the pharmaceutical industry of Asia's third largest economy - India. Although the...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Resverlogix initiates phase II diabetes trials

Singapore: Resverlogix has initiated an exploratory phase II clinical trial in patients with pre-diabetes mellitus to e...

October 17, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Marken gets 12-year license in China

Singapore: Global clinical supply chain solutions provider Marken has been granted a 12-year license to ship biological ...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Good Clinical Practice-certified investigators ensure quality in Malaysia

The clinical trials landscape in Malaysia is very easy to navigate. The Malaysian government has been actively promoti...

September 17, 2013 | Tuesday | Opinion
Marc Wolff is CFO of ReSearch Pharma Services

‎Singapore: ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services, a clinical research firm, has appointed Mr Marc Wolff as its chief f...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Patrys' multiple myeloma clinical trial progresses

Singapore: Patrys, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has received approval to progress its Phase I/IIa PAT-SM6 mul...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Agilent LC/MS for 'dried blood-spot analysis'

Singapore: Agilent Technologies has introduced the Agilent Automated Card Extraction LC/MS system, a fully integrated in...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Mesoblast NeoFuse shows +ve results

Singapore: Regenerative medicine company Mesoblast's phase II clinical trial for lumbar spinal fusion successfully met ...

January 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Japanese firm to begin clinical research in Bahrain

Singapore: SBI Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Japan, has concluded a basic agreement to begin clinical research on di...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Quintiles gets CAP's first-ever Asia accreditation

Mumbai: Quintiles announced that its central laboratory in Mumbai, India, has received accreditation from the College o...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Corruption hampers China's growth

The growth story of the clinical research industry in China speaks of perfection, good timing and untapped potential. Al...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Iconik Monitoring to aid in real time data analysis

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

August 22, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sanofi declares results of Lantus clinical trial

Bangalore: The results of the landmark ORIGIN (Outcome Reduction with Initial Glargine Intervention) trial showed that L...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Oncology is the top therapeutic focus area for CROs in APAC

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Charles River manages 2.9% growth in Q2, 2013

Singapore: Drug development company Charles River Laboratories has marked net sales of $292.9 million in the second quar...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | Company results
Vietnam, Quintiles enter deal to advance clinical trials

Singapore: Vietnam Ministry of Health's Administration of Science, Technology and Training (ASTT) has signed an agreemen...

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
INC Research expands in Korea to meet local demand

Singapore: INC Research, a therapeutically focused clinical research organization (CRO) with a trusted process for deli...

September 18, 2012 | Tuesday | News
NIH cancels 40 ongoing clinical trials in India

Singapore: In what is proving to be a major setback for the Indian clinical research industry, reports reveal that the w...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Dr Rajput: Enjoy challenges to overcome them

Dr Anuradha Rajput, managing director, Icon Central Laboratories, India, has been working with the company since the pas...

January 18, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
BSA-CMR Survey: India, China lead in APAC CRO sector

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Biotron starts phase II trial for HIV-hepatitis co-infection

Singapore: Australian drug development company, Biotron, has commenced a landmark phase II human trial of its lead anti...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
INC Research implements CRO accreditation program

Singapore: INC Research, a therapeutically focused global clinical research organization (CRO), has implemented Clinical...

September 10, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Kinex, Hanmi enroll patients for cancer trial

Singapore: Kinex Pharmaceuticals and Hanmi Pharmaceutical announced today that the first patient has been enrolled in Ha...

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Quest signs $8 mn agreement with Korean parties

Singapore: Canada-based Quest PharmaTech, a pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the trea...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Eurofins acquires Pan Labs unit to expand

Singapore: Eurofins Scientific, which provides analytical support to the global pharmaceutical market, has signed an agr...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
David Johnston to lead PPD's lab services

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) has appointed Dr David Johnston as executive vice president of globa...

August 9, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Icon to acquire trial services of Cross Country

Singapore: Icon, Ireland-based global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology a...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
PRA expands in China

Singapore: PRA, a clinical research organization, has opened a second office in China to accommodate its continued expan...

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
What is the revenue size, range of CROs in APAC?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Xenetic recruits patients for anemia drug trial in India

Singapore: UK-based biopharma company, Xenetic Biosciences, said in a statement that the recruitment process for the tri...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
India's regulatory framework needs lot more work

Everything does not seem to be well in the pharmaceutical industry of Asia's third largest economy - India. Although the...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Integrated drug discovery fuels healthy outcomes

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies reap the most benefit from their strategic collaborations, by working with su...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
The challenge of patient recruitment in Asia

Recruitment and retention of research participants is often the most labor-intensive and difficult component of clinical...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
What makes a country competitive for a clinical research?

Any regulatory body's primary concern is to provide safe and efficacious medicine at an acceptable healthcare cost to ...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Quintiles appoints new VP for Asia lab

Singapore: Quintiles appointed Ms Jenny Zhang as VP and general manager of Asian laboratories. She will be responsible f...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Johns Hopkins to collaborate with Chinese university

Singapore: The training of next-generation clinical investigators in China is at the core of a new collaboration between...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan FDA's new fast-track review process attracts more trials

The loss of patents on the last generation of blockbuster products has forced multinational pharmaceutical companies t...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | Opinion
BSA-CMR Survey: APAC CROs stick to an average of 50 clients

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Solasia appoints Yoshihiro Arai as president

Singapore: Mr Yoshihiro Arai, currently general manager and head of development of Solasia Pharma, has been promoted to...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
GVK BIo, Endo Pharma collaborate on R&D

Hyderabad: GVK Biosciences entered into a collaboration agreement with US-based Endo Pharmaceuticals to discover novel ...

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
pSivida enrols first patient in Uveitis trial

Singapore: pSivida, a leader in developing sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye di...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Australian CRO expands its operations in HongKong

Singapore: Australia-based contract research organization, Novotech, recently announced that it has expanded its Hong Ko...

January 23, 2015 | Friday | News
Biostar, military varsity to tie up for drug trial

Singapore: Biostar Pharmaceuticals, a PRC-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical and health supplement produc...

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | News
What services do APAC CROs offer to their clients?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis

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