WuXi's API manufacturing passes FDA inspection

Contract Research |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Aug, 2014

Singapore: China-based WuXiPharmaTech, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company, has succesfully passed the US Food and Drug Administrat...Read more

Quintiles bags Frost and Sullivan's 'APAC CRO of the Year' award

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Oct, 2015

Singapore: Quintiles has recieved Asia Pacific Contract Research Organization company of the Year recognition by Frost & Sullivan. "Quintiles is the clear market leader in the Asia Pac...Read more

PAREXEL expands regulatory management services

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Apr, 2016

Singapore: PAREXEL International has partnered with EMC Corporation to offer an end-to-end Regulatory Information Management (RIM) and Regulatory Content Management solution. By combining ...Read more

US CRO to test tobacco in Beijing's E-Town

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Nov, 2013

Singapore: US-based contract research organization (CRO), iPhase Pharma Service (IPS), which has been formed by a group of US pharma and contract service professionals, said that they are e...Read more

As a child I was a bit of a rebel: Nidhi Saxena

Contract Research |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Mar, 2013

"Don't just think you are the one. Know that you are the one." This famous line from the movie Matrix motivates me a lot. I was born and brought up in Allahabad, then moved to Mumbai for ...Read more

WuXi Life Science to acquire WuXi PharmaTech for around $3.3 bn

Contract Research |  Company results | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Aug, 2015

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, research and technology platform company serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries with operations in China and the United States,...Read more

Gilead Science, WuXi partner to accelerate drug development

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 Oct, 2015

Singapore: Gilead Sciences and WuXi PharmaTech have entered into a strategic partnership to conduct analytical and stability studies of small-molecule new chemical entities to support globa...Read more

Outsourcing strategy for drug development in Asia

Contract Research |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Apr, 2012

The conventional view of contract research organizations (CROs) bears little relationship with the way in which they were perceived ten years ago. Traditionally, the CROs provided support t...Read more

PAREXEL Academy conducts clinical research talent development roundtable in Taiwan

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 11 Mar, 2016

Singapore: PAREXEL and PAREXEL Academy hosted a Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) roundtable in Taipei, Taiwan on November 23, 2015 focusing on the topic of embracing a future in the clinical resea...Read more

Cogstate bets big on its cognitive test Cognigram

Contract Research |  Company results | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Australian company Cogstate has earned overall revenue of $6.14 million and a net loss of $0.49 million in the half year ending December 31, 2012. CogState is now focusing on it...Read more

Taiwan, China firms enter contract research alliance

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Taiwan-based ScinoPharm (Changshu) Pharmaceuticals and Shanghai-based Sundia MediTech entered in a strategic alliance to seek more opportunities for collaboration on contract res...Read more

Local CROs and their challenges

Contract Research |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Oct, 2014

Singapore: Monitoring a clinical study is an important challenge faced by local as well as global CRO where the sponsor company spends majority of their budget and energy. Global CROs devel...Read more

AMRI acquires Cedarburg at $41mn

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 08 Apr, 2014

Singapore: AMRI has completed the acquisition of Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals, a contract developer and manufacturer of technically complex active pharmaceutical ingredients (API's) for both g...Read more

Clinical trial firm BioClinica expands in China

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Jun, 2013

Singapore: BioClinica, a global provider of clinical trial management services, has merged with CoreLab Partners as an initiative to better serve its growing sponsor client base in China an...Read more

Quintiles shuts down India phase I unit

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Oct, 2013

Singapore: Leading global contract research giant Quintiles has cited a challenging external business environment as the reason for shutting down its phase I unit in Hyderabad, India. The ...Read more

Riken launches iPS cell therapy pilot study

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Riken has launched a pilot study to assess the safety and feasibility of the transplantation of autologous induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived retinal pigment epithelium...Read more

WHO demands transparency in clinical trial results

Contract Research |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Apr, 2015

Singapore: In a study that analysed reports from large clinical trials (more than 500 participants), registered on ClinicalTrials.gov and completed by 2009, 23 percent had no results report...Read more

Research capital will continue to flow eastward

Contract Research |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 May, 2012

        Growth of the biotech industry in Singapore over the last 10 years has, in a number of measures, outpaced the expansion of the industry in India and China. However, the sc...Read more