Canada's investment giant enters Aus life science

On October 25, 2012, Canada-based international investment bank, Canaccord Genuity, expanded its Australian operations w...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Celgene's anti-cancer drug reactivates dormant HIV: Study

Singapore: A study presented by Danish scientists at the AIDS 2014 conference, indicated that an anti-cancer drug made b...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BioDiem expands antimicrobial profile

Singapore: Infectious disease therapies developer, BioDiem has expanded its local partnership network by signing an agre...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Pharma companies set eyes on China

China reported total of 97 deals worth $6.5 billion, the highest in Asia Pacific, according to a mergermarket report. Th...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Alchemia cancer trial gets nod from drug safety board

Singapore: Alchemia announced that the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) responsible for reviewing the sa...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Alchemia gets new CEO

Singapore: Brisbane drug discovery and development company Alchemia announces that Mr Charles Walker has been appointed...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Doctors now offer GI Dynamic's EndoBarrier Therapy to treat diabetes

Singapore: GI Dynamics announced that doctors at St. Vincent's Clinic and Macquarie University Hospital (MUH) in Sydney...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
What the future holds for the APAC CRO market?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Indo-Aussie research to find ovarian cancer cure

Singapore: Scientists at Australia's Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are hot on the trail of a genetic pathway...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
Changes in PBS to help Aussies save $20 mn

Singapore: The listings and price changes that came into effect in Australia this August through the Pharmaceutical Bene...

August 5, 2013 | Monday | News
Intl anesthesia society appoints board members

Singapore: SmartTots, a research initiative sponsored by International Anesthesia Research Society, a non-political medi...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Australian firm registers 25 disease specific stem cell lines at NIH

Singapore: Australia's Genea Stem Cells, a supplier and developer of disease-specific human stem cells, has been success...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Trial begins for vaccine that builds gluten tolerance

Singapore: ImmusanT, an early-stage biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has initiated clinical tria...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Adhesive patch to deliver drugs

One of the promising alternative drug delivery technologies is a transdermal delivery platform called targeted pentratio...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
CSL Biotherapies awarded Pandemic Preparedness Contract by US Government

Singapore: CSL Biotherapies has been awarded by the United States (US) Department of Health and Human Services to supply...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Uscom signs deal to distribute its devices in China

Singapore: Australia-based Uscom (Ultrasonic Cardiac Output Monitor) has gained a foothold into the rapidly growing Chin...

October 15, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Scientists discover childhood epilepsy genes

Singapore: National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded genetic study of childhood epilepsies has linked two new genes to s...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
CSL hemophilia therapy gets orphan drug status

Singapore: CSL Behring's novel recombinant fusion protein linking coagulation factor IX with recombinant albumin (rIX-FP...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory