DNA repair drug could treat leukaemia: Singapore

Singapore: A team of scientists at National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that a drug originally designe...

August 25, 2014 | Monday | News
Singapore's AYOXXA closes $12.2 mn funding round

Singapore: Singapore and Germany based biotech company, AYOXXA Biosystems, has completed $12.28 million (€9 millio...

July 10, 2014 | Thursday | News
Biosimilars to take over biologic market by 2019'

Singapore: The increasing prevalence of biosimilars will have a noticeably negative impact on the biologics market beyon...

June 11, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Japanese nod for Janssen psoriatic arthritis drug

Singapore: European Commission has approved Janssen-Cilag International's Stelara (ustekinumab), as a stand-alone drug o...

September 24, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Chinese govt delay hinders GMP plant set up

Singapore: China Biologic Products, a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, announc...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | News
German firm gets EU patent for dsRNA modification

Singapore: German company, Riboxx Pharmaceuticals, received patent from European Patent Office (EPO) on a novel process ...

July 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
3SBio acquires patents for kidney failure drug

Singapore: China-based 3SBio, which is focused on R&D, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceutical products, acqu...

October 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
Asia leverages on the biologics opportunity

Many companies in India, China and to an extent Korea have established a strong position in contract manufacturing of ac...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Now remote monitoring service via smartphone

Singapore: AB SCIEX, life science analytical technologies provider, has launched StatusScope Remote Monitoring service, ...

June 19, 2014 | Thursday | News
Agilent launches biology solution for protein analysis

Singapore: Global supplier firm, Agilent Technologies, has launched QuikChange HT Protein Engineering System, a novel sy...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Belgian doctors develop new test tube baby system

Singapore: As a solution to the lack of affordable test tube baby technology in developing countries, Belgian doctors ha...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Monoclonal antibodies market set to grow in Europe

Singapore: Efficient resource to therapy of complex disorders with lesser side-effects has accelerated growth of monoclo...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | News
Teva to acquire migraine drug firm at $825 mn

Singapore: With the strategy to strengthen its pain management portfolio, global biopharmaceutical company, Teva Pharmac...

June 4, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Merck, Samsung to co-develop diabetes drug

Singapore: Global Pharmaceutical company, Merck, and Samsung Bioepis, a joint venture between Samsung Biologics and Biog...

February 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
H7N9 antibodies high among poultry workers'

Singapore: Serological tests conducted on poultry workers of southern Guangdong province city of Shenzhen China, showed ...

June 4, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Quintiles to advise Ascendancy on pharma deals in China

Singapore: San Francisco-based Ascendancy Healthcare has tied up with Quintiles to get help from the contract research g...

July 30, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Scientists trace origin of skin-deep immune cells

Singapore: Scientists at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered the origin of a group of skin-deep...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | News
India's Polyclone collaborate with Greifswald Uni to engineer enzyme

Singapore: India based Polyclone, a biotech company with expertise in molecular, cell and computational biology has coll...

March 28, 2014 | Friday | News
GE launches modular pharma factory

Singapore: GE Healthcare introduced KUBio, an innovative off-the-shelf, modular factory, designed to save manufacturers ...

September 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Green Cross builds $68 mn Thai plasma plant

Singapore: South Korean company Green Cross is building a plasma derivatives plant (worth $68 million) in Bangkok, Thail...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Novozymes sales increased 7% in 2012

Singapore: Novozymes reported seven percent sales growth in 2012 when compared with 2011. EBIT increased by 17 percent, ...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Biologics: Indian companies address quality issues

In recent years, licensing and quality control for manufacturers and national regulatory authorities has become more com...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
3SBio, Selecta join hands to develop gout therapy

Singapore: China based biotech firm, 3SBio, has partnered with Selecta Biosciences to license out pegsiticase (Uricase P...

June 20, 2014 | Friday | News
GE launches single-use bioreactor system

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences has launched ReadyToProcess Wave 25, a next-generation, single-use, rocking biore...

November 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
TaiMed Biologics taps on humanized mAb for HIV therapy

Publicly-held biotech company TaiMed Biologics was set up in 2007 with the mission to discover, develop and deliver inno...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Aussie firm begins prostate cancer screening test in US

Singapore: Australian biotechnology company Minomic is all set to launch two overseas trials of its MiStat prostate canc...

April 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Cell death pioneer wins Agilent thought leader award

Singapore: Dr Junying Yuan, a pioneer and leading researcher in the field of cell death at the Chinese Academy of Scienc...

December 11, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Samsung to make Roche biologics at Korean plant

Singapore: Samsung BioLogics and Roche have entered into a long term strategic manufacturing agreement under which Samsu...

October 24, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sanofi begins biopharmaceutical plant construction

Singapore: Sanofi and US-based Transgene have launched the construction phase of the manufacturing platform dedicated to...

January 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
Coherus starts ph3 trial of rheumatoid arthritis biosimilar drug

‎Singapore: US based biosimilar therapeutic developer, Coherus BioSciences, has started its Phase 3 trial of CHS-0...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Biologics' demand will boost cell culture, stem cell market

Singapore: Cell culture is going to become the next big pharmaceutical trend, as laboratories rush to meet demand for st...

November 14, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Austrianova starts cell bank for cancer therapy

Singapore: Austrianova Singapore has established a research cell bank, the first step towards late-phase clinical trials...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Genzyme to invest $80 mn to boost Fabrazyme production

Singapore: Genzyme, a Sanofi company, plans to invest USD80 million to build a new downstream processing facility for Fa...

October 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Australian academy of science gets new council members

Singapore: Internationally-recognized experts in computing and atmospheric physics, developmental biology, organometalli...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China marches ahead with regulatory approvals

After five years of amendments and two rounds of public consultations, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) iss...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Ranbaxy to market infliximab biosimilar

Singapore: Switzerland based EPIRUS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston-based EPIRUS Biopharmaceuticals, and Ranbaxy La...

January 9, 2014 | Thursday | 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
Agilent, Korea institute to launch neurometabolomics center

Singapore: Agilent Technologies and Korea-based Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) have collabo...

October 28, 2013 | Monday | News
Shire biologics facility gets FDA clearance

Singapore: Shire, global specialty biopharmaceutical company, has recieved US FDA approval for production of VPRIV drug ...

February 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
MedImmune, UCSF enter 3-year R&D deal

Singapore: MedImmune, the global biologics R&D arm of AstraZeneca, has entered into a three-year collaboration with ...

February 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
D A Prasanna is ACRO India's new Chairman

Singapore: On January 10 2014, members of Association of Contract Research Organizations (ACRO INDIA) met and Mr D A Pra...

January 16, 2014 | Thursday | News
India announces new biosimilar regulatory guidelines

Boston: India has announced the much-awaited new and simple regulatory guidelines for similar biologics which have been...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Aussie's CardioCel gets US approval

Singapore: Australia based Admedus has received FDA clearance to market CardioCel in the US. CardioCel is the group's l...

February 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Asia biologics manufacturers face the 'quality challenge'

Biologics manufacturers in Asia have to be more vigilant and give higher priority to product safety and product efficacy...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Boehringer develops disposable manufacturing technology

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has developed and implemented a flexible set-up and operational approach for disposable ...

September 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
California closer to get biosimilars bill

Singapore: The US State of California's biosimilar Senate Bill 598, which is a pharmacy substitution law to allow great...

September 6, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Can Asian biologics manufacturers live up to global regulatory standards?

When it comes to contract biologics manufacturing, despite the increasing opportunities, there is a concern regarding th...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Sigma-Aldrich to launch Austrianova's encapsulation technology

Singapore: Sigma-Aldrich, bioscience and technology company, is set to commercialize a kit for hand-driven, self-encapsu...

June 3, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Old drug gives hope for new treatment in autism

Singapore: Autism results from abnormal cell communication. Testing a new theory, researchers at the University of Calif...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Immune cells essential to establish pregnancy: Study

Singapore: Research from University of Adelaide have shown that immune cells known as macrophages are critical to fertil...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
GE Healthcare, Osaka University join hands

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences has tied up with Osaka University to allow students to have access to GE Healthca...

August 20, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Luye Pharma invests in NuSep's PrIME technology

Singapore: SGX-listed Luye Pharma Group is investing S$6 million (A$4.6 million) in NuSep's Singapore subsidiary Prime B...

August 20, 2012 | Monday | News
Merck launches Mobius FlexReady chromatography solution

Singapore: Merck Millipore, the life science division of Merck, launched Mobius FlexReady Solution with Smart Flexware A...

August 7, 2012 | Tuesday | News
AB Sciex launches technology to predict drug efficacy

Singapore: AB Sciex, a global leader in analytical technologies, has launched a breakthrough technology solution called ...

March 4, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Life Technologies DNA Kit gets US DNA Index System approval

Singapore: GlobalFiler Express Kit by Life Technologies has been approved by the United States Federal Bureau of Investi...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
CSL files biologics license plea with FDA

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted Australia-based CSL Behring's biologics license applic...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
MNCs boost Asia biologics industry

Entry of multinational companies has been a big boost to Asia's position in biologics manufacturing, especially with cGM...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
WuXi inks cancer biomarker service deal with US firm

Singapore: US based Targos, clinical biomarker service provider has signed a collaboration deal with China's WuXi Pharma...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
Boehringer shuts generic injectables arm, axes 1,100 staff

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim is closing down its generic sterile injectables manufacturing arm, Ben Venue Laboratorie...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Agilent, SomaLogic to expand proteomic tech

Singapore: Agilent Technologies and US-based SomaLogic have entered into an agreement to expand access to SomaLogic's un...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Novartis invests over $500 in new Singapore facility

Singapore: Novartis is investment over $500 million for a new state-of-the-art biotechnology production site in Singapor...

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Institute for Systems Biology, ABSciex to collaborate

Singapore: Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and AB SCIEX have signed a multi-year agreement to collaborate on the dev...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Studies on MabThera delivery method positive

Singapore: Two studies by Roche has demonstrated that a fixed dose of MabThera (rituximab) can be administered subcutane...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
Merck to develop processes for stem cell cultures

Singapore: Merck Millipore, the life science division of Merck, and the Institute of Bioprocess Engineering and Pharmace...

September 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
Scientists find cellular origin of cervical cancer

Singapore: A team of scientists from A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS)...

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | News
Analytical instruments market to soar in China

Singapore: China is soon expected to become a sales hub for lab analytical instruments as international companies speed ...

November 26, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
China Biologic to report Q2 results

Singapore: China Biologic Products, a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, will rel...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Oncotest, Debiopharm identify biomarker candidates

Singapore: Germany-based Oncotest and Debiopharm, a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group, have completed first bio...

April 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
EMA recommends MSD's melanoma drug

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended granting a marketing authorization for Merck Sharp And Dohme'...

May 27, 2015 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Intrexon appoints new VP and CIO

Singapore: US-based Intrexon, a synthetic biology company, has appointed Dr Peter Seufer-Wasserthal as VP, business deve...

November 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
China Biologic clocks sales of $53.6 mn

Singapore: China Biologic Products reported its unaudited financial results for the second quarter of 2013. Total sales ...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
China Biologic reports 21.1% growth in sales revenue

Singapore: China Biologic Products, a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, announce...

August 10, 2012 | Friday | Company results
GE launches new software for molecular screening

Singapore: GE Healthcare has launched Biacore T200 Software v.2.0, offering researchers a flexible and powerful tool for...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Biochips firm AyoxxA gets $3.37 million funding

Singapore: AyoxxA Biosystems, an international biotechnology company, has closed a $3.37 million (2.6 million Euro) seri...

September 21, 2012 | Friday | News
China's JHL Biotech raises $35 million

Singapore: China based emerging biopharmaceutical company, JHL Biotech, has closed a Series B financing round of $35 mil...

June 23, 2014 | Monday | News
bioCSL inks a deal with Immucor

Singapore: BioCSL has inked a deal with US-based Immucor to distribute transfusion testing technology in Australia and N...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News
Promega opens new facility in Shanghai

Singapore: Promega opened a new facility in Shanghai for its China operations. The new site for Shanghai Promega Biologi...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | News
Novel protein complex to combat gastric cancer

Singapore: A team of scientists from Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI) at National University of Singapore (NU...

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News
China Biologic names David Gao as CEO

Singapore: China Biologic Products, one of the leading plasma-based biopharmaceutical companies in China, has appointed ...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
Shimadzu launches smart device enabled HPLC system

Singapore: Japan-based global analytics technology provider, Shimadzu, has launched i-Series of new industry standard HP...

July 9, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Clearbridge BioMedics raises $7.2 million funding

Singapore: Singapore's Clearbridge BioMedics has closed a $7.2 million (S$9 million) Series B financing, led by Vertex V...

March 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Agilent launches Multispan Liquid Handling System

Singapore: Agilent Technologies has launched Encore Multispan Liquid Handling System, featuring an array of unique techn...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
Patrys offers human antibodies for cancer cure

Traditionally, researchers have utilized rodents to generate antibodies that attack human cancer tissues. In most cases,...

March 16, 2012 | Friday | News
MedImmune, WuXi form joint venture

Singapore: MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, and WuXi AppTec, a research and development outsourcing c...

September 10, 2012 | Monday | News
AbbVie invests $320 mn in bilogics manufacturing in Singapore

Singapore: Research based pharmaceutical company, AbbVie, has made investment of around USD320 million in Singapore to s...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Missing protien connects diabetes, obesity: Study

Singapore: Scientists from Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), a research institute under the Agency for Sci...

July 11, 2014 | Friday | News
AB Sciex launches next-gen TripleTOF 5600 System

Singapore: Life science analytical technologies company, AB Sciex, has launched the second generation TripleTOF 5600 Sys...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Singapore President awards the nation's scientific talents

Singapore: Professor Wang Yue from A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) received the President's Scie...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Chinese scientist makes breakthrough finding in polysaccharides

‎Singapore: Professor Ding Kan's research team members from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy ...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
WuXi opens first cGMP biologics facility in China

Singapore: WuXi AppTec has invested substantially in building its capabilities and capacity in biologics in the past fe...

October 22, 2012 | Monday | News
Preview of Biologics World Korea 2013

Singapore: Biologics World Korea, which attracted over 130 biologics industry leaders in 2012, has decided to conduct th...

December 7, 2012 | Friday | News
NanoString partners with Celgene

Singapore: NanoString Technologies, a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic...

June 5, 2014 | Thursday | News
Singapore embeds gold nanoparticle in genetic test kit

Singapore: Researchers at Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore have developed a genetic test ...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | News
First ever genome-wide RNA structure revealed

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and US-based Stanford University's School of Medic...

February 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
AB SCIEX LibraryView software to screen contaminants

Singapore: AB SCIEX launched a new application called LibraryView Software that enables faster and more reliable identif...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Austrianova strengthens its Thailand operations

Singapore: Singapore based biotechnology firm, Austrianova, has received Board of Investment (BOI) status for its Thai s...

June 20, 2014 | Friday | News
Orthocell gets ASX listing, plans to raise $8mn initially

Singapore: Australian regenerative medicine firm, Orthocell, is looking ahead to raise $8 million through an Initial Pub...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | News
Asia's challenge: Meeting US, EU requirements

One of the biggest challenges in developing and manufacturing antibodies is proving the equivalence or similarity to the...

October 12, 2012 | Friday | Opinion
China Biologic reports 6.2% sales growth in Q2 2013

Singapore: China Biologic Products, a plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, has marked sales growth of 6.2 pe...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Mesoblast to set up stem cell drug plant in Singapore

Singapore: Australian regenerative drug company, Mesoblast, is planning to expand its global manufacturing base and the ...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | News

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