Dr Chi-huey Wong: Pushing biotech growth in Taiwan
Vaccines | Influencers | By Piyusha Chatterjee | 4 Comment | 09 Jul, 2012
Scientist, entrepreneur, administrator, adviser. Dr Chi-Huey Wong, the ninth president of Academia Sinica, has donned ma...Read more
GSK pneumococcal vaccine to be introduced in Pakistan
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 12 Oct, 2012
Singapore: A pneumococcal vaccine, Synflorix, by GlaxoSmithKline will be be introduced into the national immunization pr...Read more
Taiwan develops carbohydrate-based cancer vaccine
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 13 Aug, 2013
Singapore: A research team led by Academia Sinica President, Dr. Chi-Huey Wong, and associate research fellow, Dr Chung-...Read more
Fearing MERS, Bahrain doubles flu vaccine orders
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 23 Jun, 2014
Singapore: Bahrain's health ministry has almost doubled its annual order of flu vaccines following fears of MERS corona...Read more
Phase III trial of $1 vaccine RotaVac completed
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 06 Mar, 2013
Pune: The phase III trial of RotaVac, India's first indigenously developed rotavirus vaccine, has been completed and the...Read more
Taiwan's Adimmune to release H7N9 vaccine soon
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 10 Jul, 2013
Singapore: Leading vaccine provider from Taiwan, Adimmune Corp has passed the third phase of clinical trials for H7N9 Av...Read more
Hexaxim vaccine gets EMA nod for global use
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 25 Jun, 2012
Singapore: The European Medicines Agency has issued a scientific opinion recommending that the benefits of the vaccine H...Read more
We are going to reduce Injectible Polio Vaccine cost, says Dr Cyrus Poonawalla
Vaccines | Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 6 Comment | 15 Jul, 2013
Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SIIL), one of the largest providers of affordable quality vaccines in the world, ha...Read more
We need to focus on diseases unique to China: Dr Chi-huey Wong
Vaccines | Influencers | By Piyusha Chatterjee | 4 Comment | 09 Jul, 2012
Academia Sinica is an autonomous research institution in Taiwan that is doing pioneering work in the field of science an...Read more
Novartis infant meningococcal vaccine gets FDA nod
Vaccines | Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 3 Comment | 02 Aug, 2013
Singapore: The US FDA has approved Novartis' Menveo (Meningococcal Group A, C, W-135 and Y conjugate vaccine) for the p...Read more
GSK's quadrivalent flu vaccine gets FDA nod
Vaccines | Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 3 Comment | 20 Aug, 2013
Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received approval from the US FDA for Flulaval Quadrivalent (influenza virus vaccin...Read more
Ebola: Scientists brainstorm on prevention & cure
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 04 Aug, 2014
Singapore: The US NIH announced that it is all set to launch an early-stage clinical trial of an experimental vaccine ag...Read more
Simcere reports 8.4% growth in Q1 2013
Vaccines | Company results | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 10 May, 2013
Singapore: China-based Simcere Pharmaceutical clocked $85.1 million revenue for the first quarter of 2013, representing ...Read more
Taiwan to get Adimmune bird flu vaccine by July
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 23 Apr, 2013
Singapore: Taiwan-based Adimmune has highlighted that it can begin supplying vaccines against the current strain of H7N9...Read more
VIANZ merges with Medicines New Zealand
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 09 Aug, 2013
Singapore: The Vaccines Industry Association of New Zealand (VIANZ) has merged with the industry body Medicines New Zeal...Read more
Positive result for PaxVax's oral cholera vaccine
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 08 Jul, 2014
Singapore: US-based PaxVax, a specialty vaccine company, has confirmed positive efficacy results from 90-day challenge s...Read more
Transgene, Tasly joint venture begins operations
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 27 Jul, 2012
Singapore: Transgene's Chinese 50:50 equity joint venture with Tasly Pharmaceutical has started its operations. The join...Read more
BioDiem to create new non-influenza vaccines
Vaccines | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 20 Jul, 2012
Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem has signed an agreement with Th...Read more