Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports Takeda with $38 m to eradicate polio

Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced a partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation t...

May 10, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Merck gets FDA nod for Bridion

Singapore: Merck (MSD) has recieved US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Bridion (sugammadex) Injection 10...

December 22, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
BioDiem gets hepatitis vaccine tech from Canberra univ

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem has signed an agreement to lice...

June 29, 2012 | Friday | News
Infect mosquitoes with Wolbachia, stop diseases

Singapore: Scientists at Melbourne University and University of California have found that mosquito that are infected wi...

April 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
Takeda close to releasing Norovirus vaccine

Singapore: Japan's drug major Takeda Pharmaceutical has said that they are set to finish the early stage human studies o...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
China to set up a new vaccine tracking system

Singapore: According to a recent decision publicized by the Chinese government, wholesalers will no longer be allowed to...

April 27, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Yisheng BioPharma gets positive result in rabies vaccine trial

Singapore: Yisheng Biopharma, China based biopharmaceutical company, has recieved positive topline results from Phase I ...

January 4, 2016 | Monday | News
China's Hualan Bio gets WHO nod for influenza vaccine

Singapore: China based Hualan Bio has recieved world health organization (WHO) pre-qualification approval for influenza ...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News
Teikoku Pharma gets USFDA nod for non-alcohol docetaxel injection

Singapore: Japan's Teikoku Pharma has recieved USFDA approval for Docetaxel injection, a non-alcohol formula for the tre...

January 4, 2016 | Monday | News
German firm proceeds on ebola vaccine trial

Singapore: Germany based complex biologics development and manufacturing specialist, ProBioGen, has proceeded on the cli...

June 4, 2015 | Thursday | News
Merck's Ebola vaccine found promising in clinical trials

Singapore: In a recent interim study published in the Lancet medical journal, Merck's Ebola vaccine was found to be "hig...

August 3, 2015 | Monday | News
Teva recalls Adrucil injection for potential foriegn particle presence

Singapore: Teva Parenteral Medicines has recalled six lots of Adrucil (fluorouracil injection) due to the potential pres...

July 28, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Drug resistance keeps malaria threat alive in India

The current anti-malarial market in India is approximately $80 million (Rs 450 crore) with an annual growth rate of 17 p...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
New vaccine against Hepatatis B developed by Cuba

Singapore: Researchers from Cuba have developed a new vaccine for treatment of chronic hepatitis B. The vaccine HeberNas...

August 17, 2015 | Monday | News
Malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, gets European nod

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline has received a positive opinion for its Malaria vaccine candidate from the Committee for Medi...

July 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Novavax's Ebola vaccine shows promise in human trial

Singapore: US-based Novavax recently announced that its experimental candidate vaccine for Ebola showed promise in early...

July 22, 2015 | Wednesday | News
No more needles, no more pain!

Singapore: Vaccination will no longer be a painful process as researchers from Japan's Osaka University have developed a...

July 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Shanghai BravoBio wins BioSpectrum award for role in China vaccine industry

Chinese vaccine development companies are raising the bar to meet international standards. However, access to foreign ma...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers