AstraZeneca boosts drug discovery through partnership

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Oct, 2012

Singapore: Pharmaron, a premier R&D service provider for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, has formed a drug discovery partnership with AstraZeneca to support their global Inno...Read more

Dr Anthony S Rebuck, Quintiles: Entry of new biosimilars will transform biopharma in 2013

BioServices |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 Dec, 2012

Big news in 2013 will be the growth of biosimilars in the biologics segment. By the end of the year, biosimilars will account for five percent of all biologics in use, up 16-fold from 2011 ...Read more

DSM launches cGMP facility in Brisbane

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 31 Oct, 2013

Singapore: DSM Pharmaceutical, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, has launched its new cGMP facility for biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing in Brisbane, Au...Read more

WuXi genomics lab gets CLIA certification

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Oct, 2013

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device R&D outsourcing company with operations in China and the US, has cleared the survey by Centers for...Read more

DHL expands secure cold chain network

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Apr, 2013

Singapore: DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist, has expanded its Qualified Envirotainer Provider (QEP) Accreditation to 30 stations in locations at Germany, France, ...Read more

Glen Pater is APAC head of UK-based CRO TranScrip

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Sep, 2013

Singapore: TranScrip Partners, a UK-based contract service organization, has appointed Australia-based Dr Glen Pater. Dr Pater, who is a pharmaceutical physician, will be responsible for s...Read more

Biopolis marks 10 years of biomedical R&D

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Oct, 2013

Singapore: Biopolis, an international research and development (R&D) centre located in Singapore, is marking the completion of a decade as a world-class biomedical research hub. Opened...Read more

IKP's Deepanwita Chattopadhyay: Women, open up your mind

BioServices |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Mar, 2013

We were a large family with my parents, seven brothers and sisters, and our dog. Life was always busy - there was no way one could get bored - with studies, dance, music, painting, playing,...Read more

SFJ Pharma, Pfizer collaborate for dacomitinib trial

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Sep, 2012

Singapore: SFJ Pharmaceuticals, primarily focused on funding and executing phase III studies of drugs, has entered into a collaborative development agreement with Pfizer to conduct a phase ...Read more

India bioservices registers 12% growth

BioServices |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Aug, 2012

The bioservices sector witnessed a growth of 15.5 percent in 2011-12 in spite of facing many issues from the regulatory agencies. The sector touched a revenue of $765 million as against las...Read more

Seoul NUH, Agilent collaborate on biomarker research

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Oct, 2013

Singapore: Agilent Technologies and Seoul National University Hospital (NUH) have collaborated for the development and verification of various biomarkers for the development of drugs, inclu...Read more

Logistics demand attention as outsourcing picks up

BioServices |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 Dec, 2012

The European Medical Agency (EMA) recently raised concerns that since many sources of active substances for life-saving medicines are now wholly located outside Europe, it is of high import...Read more

Pharmacovigilance: A strategic opportunity

BioServices |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 06 Sep, 2012

For many Asian pharmaceutical companies, pharmacovigilance is a critical component of any drug development program. As product safety continues to receive a high level of emphasis from regu...Read more

Icon, Taiwan's national clinical trials center sign deal

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 08 Aug, 2013

Singapore: Icon, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, and the National Clinical Trials and Research Cente...Read more

Quintiles acquires Expression Analysis

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Aug, 2012

Singapore: Quintiles has acquired Expression Analysis, a premier provider of genomics testing and analysis to biopharma, academic, government and non-profit customers. Terms of the transact...Read more

Catalent and CTC to take Korean pharma to US, EU

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Sep, 2012

Singapore: Catalent Pharma Solutions and CTC Bio entered into a collaboration to provide optimal solutions to South Korean pharmaceutical companies seeking to commercialize solid oral dose ...Read more

GVK licenses its biomarker database to National Cancer Institute

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 07 Sep, 2012

Singapore: GVK Biosciences, Asia's leading contract research organization (CRO) has licensed its popular clinical biomarker database (GOBIOM) to the prestigious Division of Cancer Preventi...Read more

WuXi inks cancer biomarker service deal with US firm

BioServices |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 May, 2014

Singapore: US based Targos, clinical biomarker service provider has signed a collaboration deal with China's WuXi PharmaTech to support its bioanalytical work for pharmaceutical customers. ...Read more