'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
Singapore's first flu vaccine clears phase I trial

Singapore: Influenza vaccine (gH1-Qbeta) developed by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) a...

January 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
Dr Vijay Datla to get FABA award at BioAsia 2013

Hyderabad: Dr Vijay Kumar Datla, chairman and managing director of Biological E, will be given FABA Special Award 2013 ...

January 30, 2013 | Wednesday | News
How well is the industry prepared to fight H7N9 bird flu?

During March 2013, the world woke up to yet another dreaded bird flu attack that infected humans through poultry. Two mo...

May 14, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Major breakthrough in Hep C vaccine development

Singapore: Researchers at the Burnet Institute have solved a hepatitis C vaccine mystery which, once developed, could b...

August 15, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Biodiem develops killer for drug-resistant microbes

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem is developing an antimicrobial ...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News