Aussie firm Mayne to acquire Metrics

Singapore: Mayne Pharma has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Metrics, a privately-owned, US-based provider of...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | 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
SeerPharma explores markets in India, China

Australia-based SeerPharma, which offers international quality management and compliance experience, and advice to suppo...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
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
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
IATA accolade for Singapore cold chain service

Singapore: Singapore's air freight handling facility for perishable items, SATS Coolport, is certified as a Center of Ex...

February 13, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
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
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
TranScrip CRO expands in Australia

Singapore: UK-based contract organization TranScrip Partners launched its operations in Australia. TranScrip Partners su...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
PPD appoints new vice president

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development, a leading global contract research organization, has appointed Dr Louis R...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Quintiles files 19mn shares IPO to raise $790 mn

Singapore: Quintiles Transnational Holdings, which is the biggest provider of testing services to drugmakers, has filed ...

April 29, 2013 | Monday | News
Mystic gets Japan, China patent nod for containers

Singapore: Mystic Pharmaceuticals, US, received key notices of allowance from Asian patent offices in the company's o...

October 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
Marken expands direct to patient service

Singapore: As pharma companies and CROs look to boost patient enrollment in clinical trials, Marken announced that their...

July 29, 2013 | Monday | News
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
Parexel launches regulatory outsourcing services

Singapore: Parexel, a global biopharmaceutical services provider, has launched a new service line designed to provide a ...

February 20, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
UPS: Drug safety, compliance is top challenge in Asia

Singapore: Pharmaceutical product protection, which includes security of high-value shipments and product spoilage preve...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
New England Biolabs opens Singapore subsidiary

Singapore: New England Biolabs (NEB), a world leader in the production of reagents for the life science industry, extend...

April 5, 2013 | Friday | 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
GVK BIo, Endo Pharma collaborate on R&D

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

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
US FDA finds cGMP violation at Taiwan facility

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to Taiwan Three Mast Pharmaceutical aft...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | News
DKSH to provide logistics services to Nordic Bioscience

Singapore: DKSH's Business Unit Healthcare, market expansion services provider for healthcare companies seeking to grow ...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News