Gene-tweaking key to new vaccines

The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an institute that draws national attention on developing and app...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
World Vaccine Congress Asia 2012 kicks off

Singapore: The World Vaccine Congress Asia 2012 kicked off on June 11 at Singapore. In its 6th consecutive year, the eve...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Aus vaccine firm helps US army fight bio-terrorism

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem's novel antimicrobial (BDM-I) w...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Potential new tool against aggressive brain cancer

Singapore: Researchers at the Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute (NBTI) are trying to understand if a vaccine made from ...

July 25, 2012 | Wednesday | News
NIH, US army hospital: Sanaria malaria vaccine is safe

Singapore: A investigational malaria vaccine known as PfSPZ vaccine developed by scientists at US-based Sanaria has been...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
'Vaccine business: A game of snakes-and-ladders'

India: The annual revenue of the global vaccine industry is expected to be $35 billion for 2014. With Compounded Annual...

April 2, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
ICAR transfers vaccine technology to Sanvita

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sanvita Biotechno...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | News
Maiden AIDS vaccine could soon be a reality

Singapore: At the AIDS 2014 Conference in Melbourne, Australia, scientists declared that they had identified a biomarker...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac Biotech appoints Nan Wang as CFO

‎Singapore: China's vaccine company, Sinovac Biotech has appointed Ms Nan Wang, who is presently the VP of Sinovac...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Vaccine shot to keep JE at bay to become reality

Singapore: Chinese scientists have discovered a new vaccine for Japanese encephalitis that kills millions every year acr...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac reports 7% decrease in sales

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of vaccines in China, reported that its hepatitis vaccines sales in priva...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Sanofi to supply 1.7 bn polio vaccines to GPEI

Bangalore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, will provide 1.7 billion doses of oral polio vaccine (OPV) t...

April 26, 2013 | Friday | News
Dutch biotech firm raises $6.9 mn in China

Singapore: Clinical-stage Dutch biotechnology company, Mucosis has entered into a long-term collaboration and license ag...

April 16, 2014 | Wednesday | News
IVI appoints new board members

Singapore: South Korea-headquartered International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has appointed Professor Fred Binka, Dr Josep...

November 20, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Milestone payment for NTS vaccine project

Bangalore: Bharat Biotech and The University of Maryland Center for Vaccine Development have received a $4 million strat...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
New antibodies against MERS: Saudi Arabia

Singapore: Saudi health officials declared that they had finally discovered new antibodies to combat the MERS virus. The...

June 24, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Eisai collaborates with Brazilian agency for vaccines

Singapore: Tokyo-headquartered Eisai has signed a global agreement with Brazil's Fundação Oswaldo Cruz for collabo...

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | News
One third of world's unimmunized children in India

Singapore: Marking the start of the World Immunization Week, the Hilleman Laboratories, an equal joint-venture partnersh...

April 29, 2014 | Tuesday | News