Starpharma gets $5K grant for targeted drug delivery research

Singapore: Australia's Starpharma has secured grant of $548,000 from Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant. St...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
BioSpectrum Asia honors Asia's best in bioscience

Singapore: The fifth BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Awards 2013 were given away at a glittering ceremony at Hotel Fort Canning...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
What is the revenue size, range of CROs in APAC?

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Holder of 4,400 patents is conferred A*STAR award

Singapore:  Exploit Technologies (ETPL), the technology transfer arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Researc...

September 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Australia temporarily bans 19 synthetic drugs

Singapore: The Australian government has imposed a temporary ban on sales of 19 synthetic drugs pursuant to the product ...

June 21, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Sigma Pharma leverages on its pharmacy business

Marking a strong presence of 100 years in the pharmaceutical sector in the year 2012, Sigma Pharmaceuticals retained i...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Nanosonics appoints ex-Cochlear senior as CEO

Singapore: Australia-based medical device company Nanosonics has appointed Cochlear senior executive Mr Michael Kavanagh...

August 28, 2013 | Wednesday | News
GI Dynamics gets a nod for its novel diabetes treatment

Singapore: GI Dynamics has received full approval from the US FDA to commence a 25-site pivotal clinical trial of EndoB...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Prof Richard Larkins to head Australian Synchrotron

Singapore: Professor Richard Larkins has been appointed as the new director and chair of the Australian Synchrotron Hold...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Bioxyne to report COPD trial results in June

Singapore: Australian company Bioxyne closed its 320-patient study, which was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safe...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Start-ups redefining the industry

Life sciences industry in the Asia Pacific recorded the double digit growth of 16.6 percent, reaching $128.26 billion in...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Aussie researchers find protein link to STI susceptibility

Singapore: Australia's Monash Institute of Medical Research scientists have found a protein in the female reproductive t...

March 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mesoblast receives positive result in RA drug trial

Singapore: Regenerative medicine company Mesoblast has received positive results in a large animal model of rheumatoid a...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Biotron completes clinical stage of HIV trial

Singapore: Australian drug development company Biotron has completed the clinical stage of a landmark phase Ib/IIa proo...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Myriad gene patenting suit ends on a win-win note

In the legal case of Myriad Genetics vs Association for Molecular Pathology, the US Supreme Court's verdict unanimously ...

June 17, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
TranScrip CRO expands in Australia

Singapore: UK-based contract organization TranScrip Partners launched its operations in Australia. TranScrip Partners su...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Benitec acquires RNAi firm along with hepatitis program

Singapore: Benitec Biopharma announced the acquisition of US-based RNA interference (RNAi) or gene silencing therapeuti...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News
Phylogica protein libraries are now 47-fold larger

Singapore: Australia-based Phylogica has successfully completed a major upgrade to its proprietary Phylomer libraries o...

November 23, 2012 | Friday | News