Bionomics reveals data on Alzheimer's drug candidate

Singapore: Australian company Bionomics has made public new data on BNC375, its drug candidate with potential for the tr...

February 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Allied raises $1.7 mn to invest in CardioCel patch

Singapore: Australia's Allied Healthcare Group has successfully completed an oversubscribed strategic placement which ra...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Genzyme multiple sclerosis drug gets TGA nod

Singapore: Australian therapeutic goods administration (TGA) has approved Aubagio (teriflunomide) 14 mg as a new once-da...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Living Cell Technologies appoints Andrea Grant to board

Singapore: ASX-listed Living Cell Technologies has appointed Dr Andrea Grant to the board as managing director. Mr Roy A...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
DRL launches Alchemia thrombosis generic in India

Singapore: Alchemia's commercialization partner Dr Reddy's Laboratories has launched Alchemia's FDA approved generic an...

April 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
Phosphagenics licenses antibody product to Agila

Bangalore: Australian drug delivery technology company Phosphagenics has licensed an injectable antibiotic product, har...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Bionomics: Our kidney cancer trial shows clinical benefit

Singapore: Bionomics presented an update on its renal cancer candidate's (BNC105) clinical trial program at the annual A...

June 6, 2013 | Thursday | News
Osprey to capitalize on CINCOR system

Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) is a form of kidney damage caused by the toxic effects of dyes (contrast) used by car...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Prana provides updates on clinical trials of PBT2

Singapore: Prana Biotechnology, listed with the ASX, has reported progress in the phase II clinical trials with its lead...

August 24, 2012 | Friday | News
Australian scientists find gene affecting male fertility

Singapore: A team of cancer scientists from The University of Western Australia (UWA) have found that the gene known to ...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Changes in US patent law to impact global biotech

Singapore: The US has been making several modifications to its patent laws lately and this is impacting the global biote...

October 7, 2012 | Sunday | News
iSonea asthma monitor AirSonea gets CE mark

Singapore: Australia-based medical technology company iSonea has completed testing and technical documentation for the A...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | News
Bionomics gives update about BNC105 trials

Singapore: Australia-based Bionomics' CEO, Dr Deborah Rathjen, has provided an update about the company at the Biotech...

January 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Michael Culme-Seymour is Marken's new APAC VP

‎Singapore: Supply chain firm, Marken has appointed Mr Michael Culme-Seymour as VP, Asia Pacific, effective Octobe...

October 4, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Australian firm MiReven signs deal with Silence Theraeutics

Singapore: Silence Therapeutics, a leading RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics company based in the UK, has signed an a...

August 23, 2012 | Thursday | News
Allied Herpes vaccine progresses to phase I

Singapore: Allied Healthcare has announced that its Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-2) vaccine has received ethical approval t...

June 20, 2013 | Thursday | News
Aus, US universities give birth to cancer company

Singapore: UniQuest has partnered with US-based Emory University to package biotech assets for a new start-up company fr...

December 17, 2012 | Monday | News
Burnet director takes up key international vaccine position

Singapore: The director and CEO of Australia's largest virology and communicable disease research center, Burnet Institu...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | 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
Martin Cross is new chair of Medicines Australia

Singapore: The Board of Medicines Australia has announced that Dr Martin Cross has been appointed as the new chair of Me...

June 26, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Australia to grow Chinese anti-cancer fruit

Singapore: University of Queensland (UQ) is soon going to globally launch a delicious berry-like ancient Chinese red bay...

December 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Drug to help cancer children down under

Singapore: Two months after Leicestershire company Nova Laboratories received US approval to sell Xaluprine in the count...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Fisher&Paykel appoints Atcor's chairman as its director

Singapore: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has appointed Mr Donal O'Dwyer as an additional non-executive director of the...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Osprey enrolls first patient for Cincor study

Singapore: Australia's Osprey Medical has enrolled the first patient in Cincor IDE clinical study at the Leipzig Heart C...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Bionomics Chairman Chris Fullerton to retire

Singapore: Mr Chris Fullerton, chairman of Australian firm Bionomics, will retire from the board of Bionomics, effective...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | News
Agenix acquires diagnostics technology from Tyrian

Singapore: Agenix has entered an agreement with Tyrian Diagnostics to license its rapid point-of-care human diagnostic ...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
QRx Pharma gets FDA inputs on Moxduo

Singapore: Australia-based QRxPharma is proceeding with US FDA to discuss the company's Moxduo new drug application (NDA...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Omega XL slows Alzheimer's: Great HealthWorks study

Singapore: According to a latest study published online in Neurology, omega-3 fatty acids, like those found in Omega XL ...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | News
Agilent helps Univ of Sydney in water, food research

Singapore: Agilent Technologies extended its collaboration with the University of Sydney, Australia, by providing advanc...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
PolyActiva gets $9.53 mn Series B venture funding

Singapore: PolyActiva raised $9.53 million (AUD $9.2 million) in a Series B financing round from a consortium of investo...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
ElectroCore GammaCore therapy gets Aus TGA nod

Singapore: ElectroCore's GammaCore therapy has been approved for commercial sale by the Therapeutic Goods Administratio...

February 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Aspen acquires pharma division of Sigma

Singapore: Sigma Pharmaceuticals has agreed to sell its over-the-counter and pharmaceutical divisions to Aspen Global. U...

August 22, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Hepatitis QLD makes plea in fight against virus

Singapore: In a release issued last week, the peak body concerned with the disease warned that Australia already has an ...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
GSK voluntarily recalls its six-in-one vaccine in Australia

Singapore: GSK is working with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to voluntarily recall for quality reasons six...

October 19, 2012 | Friday | 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
Patrys released myeloma trial data

Singapore: Patrys released additional data from the first cohort of multiple myeloma patients treated with PAT-SM6 in th...

March 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Linear Clinical Research wins Emerging Exporter Award

Singapore: Australian company Linear Clinical Research has won the Emerging Exporter of the year Award at the 50th annua...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
Clinuvel starts US phase III trial of SCENESSE

Singapore: Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals commenced its confirmatory phase III clinical trial of its novel drug SCENESSE (afam...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Phylogica looks for tie-ups in Asia: COO Nick Woolf

Phylogica, a leading peptide drug discovery company based in Australia, has developed a world-class drug discovery platf...

May 15, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
FDA end-of-phase II for head lice product

Singapore: Specialty pharmaceutical company Hatchtech successfully completed end-of-phase II (EOP2) consultations with t...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Senz starts phase II cancer trial

Singapore: Senz Oncology announced that the first patient has commenced treatment in a phase I/II clinical evaluati...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
Resverlogix initiates phase II diabetes trials

Singapore: Resverlogix has initiated an exploratory phase II clinical trial in patients with pre-diabetes mellitus to e...

October 17, 2012 | Wednesday | News
LSQ: Financial crunch makes capital harder to get

Life Sciences Queensland (LSQ), Australia, offers opportunity for industry stakeholders to come together and cooperate t...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
APAC's NSCLC market to show robust growth by 2019

Singapore: The GBI Research has revealed that the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the As...

March 21, 2014 | Friday | News
Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Charles Walker is Alchemia's new CEO

Singapore: Brisbane-based pharma firm Alchemia has appointed Mr Charles (Charlie) Walker as its chief executive officer....

February 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Patrys begins multiple myeloma trial

Singapore: Patrys, an Australian clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has completed the initial treatment of the fi...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
Scientists make eye lens from stem cells in petri dish

Singapore: Associate Professor Tiziano Barberi and Dr Isabella Mengarelli from the Australian Regenerative Medicine Inst...

February 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Echo Therapeutics expands agreement with Ferndale

Singapore: US-based Echo Therapeutics, a company developing its needle-free Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wire...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
Aussie firm begins prostate cancer screening test in US

Singapore: Australian biotechnology company Minomic is all set to launch two overseas trials of its MiStat prostate canc...

April 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Accenture: Health records result in reduced medical error

Singapore: According to a survey by Accenture, majority of Australian doctors (77 percent) have highlighted that sharing...

July 4, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Marc Wolff is CFO of ReSearch Pharma Services

‎Singapore: ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services, a clinical research firm, has appointed Mr Marc Wolff as its chief f...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Phylogica achieves research milestone

Singapore: Phylogica, a public Australian peptide drug discovery company, has achieved a research milestone under its co...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Alchemia appoints Kelley, Drona to its board

Singapore: Australian drug discovery and development company Alchemia has appointed Dr Susan Kelley and Mr Nathan Drona ...

March 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Patrys' multiple myeloma clinical trial progresses

Singapore: Patrys, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has received approval to progress its Phase I/IIa PAT-SM6 mul...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Hatchtech takes on resistant head lice

Australia-based Hatchtech, which was started in October 2001, is developing a new generation of low-toxicity ovacides fo...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
"Like Indo-Australian relationship, nanobiotech has great potential"

Q: How do you look at the nano-biotech achievements in India so far? Have the applications been enough?Dr Pachauri: I th...

April 3, 2014 | Thursday | Opinion
Aus, Canada study find how diabetes drug metformin works

Singapore: Researchers from St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, in collaboration with re...

November 25, 2013 | Monday | News
UBI doubled its revenue to $29.6 mn in FY 2012

Singapore: Universal Biosensors reported its unaudited financial result for FY 2012 including a doubling of total revenu...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Pfizer trial of cancer drug INLYTA is a failure

Singapore: Pfizer has revealed that its phase III study of INLYTA (axitinib) did not meet the primary endpoint of demons...

October 22, 2012 | Monday | News
ResMed builds on partnerships for growth

Driving in the niche industry of sleep disorders, ResMed was aggressive in strengthening its portfolio through acquisiti...

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Agenix seeks China SFDA nod for hepatitis candidate

Singapore: Drug and diagnostic company Agenix announced that it was on track to submit a new drug clinical trial applic...

April 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Nanoparticles: A unique approach to cancer treatment

Nanoparticles as a drug delivery system enables unique approaches for cancer treatment. Over the last two decades, a lar...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Prima cancer vaccine trial shows promise

Singapore: Prima BioMed's interim data from the CAN-003 phase II clinical trial of cancer vaccine therapy, CVac, which ...

October 17, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Starpharma reports financial results for FY 2011-12

Singapore: Starpharma reported net cash outflows from operating and investing activities for the year ending June 30, 20...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | Company results
GeneWorks develops DNA barcodes as security tool

Singapore: South Australian biotechnology company, GeneWorks, developed a new DNA barcoding technology for use as a secu...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
BioPharma Asia: Bionomics wins Innovative Asian Biotech of the Year Award

Singapore: Australia based Bionomics is recognized as the Innovative Asian Biotech of the Year at BioPharma Asia Industr...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | News
Mesoblast NeoFuse shows +ve results

Singapore: Regenerative medicine company Mesoblast's phase II clinical trial for lumbar spinal fusion successfully met ...

January 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Australia approves drug for cystic fibrosis

Singapore: US-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals has received Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia approval of ...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Australian scientists discover new bowel cancer genes

Singapore: A team of Australian scientists discovered new genes that show identifiable changes in the blood of people wi...

May 21, 2012 | Monday | News
Algae.Tec hires biofuels expert

Singapore: Algae.Tec, an Australian biofuels company, has appointed Mr Colin McGregor as general manager project operati...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
EU patent for Phylomer ischemia peptides

Singapore: Phylogica has been granted a new European patent (no. 1793841) entitled: 'Peptide inhibitors of c-Jun dimeriz...

April 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Irish medtech firm Mainstay starts clinical trials

Singapore: Irish medtech firm Mainstay Medical has started its clinical trials on Implanted Reactiv8 unit that is being ...

March 10, 2014 | Monday | News
Investment bank expands life science team

Singapore: International investment bank, Canaccord Genuity, expanded its Australian operations with the addition of a ...

October 25, 2012 | Thursday | News
Average bioscience R&D spend in APAC down 50%

The research and development (R&D) spend in Asia Pacific in 2011 was down by 50 percent to an average of 6.58 percen...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Genetic Technologies appoints permanent CEO

Singapore: The board of Genetic Technologies (GTG) has appointed Ms Alison Mew as the permanent chief executive officer...

December 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
AIHW report: Healthcare costs rising

Singapore: The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has presented a report that showed that though health c...

June 28, 2014 | Saturday | News
Challenge No 4: Fund crunch

Lack of appropriate funding for early- to mid-stage innovation companies, limited local capital, local grants for small ...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
CSL Behring progresses on novel drug for Hemophilia A

‎Singapore: Australia-based CSL Behring achieved improved pharmacokinetic results for its novel investigational re...

July 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
LCT appoints new science and medical head

Singapore: Living Cell Technologies has appointed Dr Paul Tan as its chief science and medical officer. As CSMO, Dr Tan...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
High school kid named 'neuroscientist of the future'

Singapore: Mr Jackson Huang from the Queensland Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology, has been named Australia...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Allied abdominal hernia study shows +ve results

Singapore: Allied Healthcare has achieved positive results in the study of Adapt-treated tissue as a bioprosthetic subst...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Biotron's HIV drug candidate reverses impaired immune system

Singapore: Australia based Biotron's HIV drug candidate BIT225 has demonstrated its ability to reverse HIV-induced impai...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Oncology is the top therapeutic focus area for 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
Medical devices smarten up

The medical devices industry has progressed by leaps and bounds in the recent past and this is evident from the several ...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
ResMed wins patent case against China firm in Germany

Singapore: Australia-based ResMed, a medical device company working on sleep-disordered breathing and respiratory condit...

November 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
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
CMS Medical to distribute EndoBarrier in Brazil

Singapore: GI Dynamics has entered into an agreement with CMS Medical, headquartered in Goiânia, Brazil, to distribut...

March 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Australia court holds 3 AstraZeneca patents invalid

Singapore: In a blow to AstraZeneca, a multinational pharmaceutical company, the Federal Court of Australia has found t...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Research: Cancer epigenetically activates genome

Singapore: A new Australian study led by Professor Susan Clark from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research shows ...

January 2, 2013 | 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
Women in life sciences – A peep into the lives of inspirational figures

We come across several women in the field of biotechnology at the graduation and post-graduation level of education. How...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
BSA-CMR Survey: India, China lead in APAC CRO sector

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
New drug to halt flu virus mutation

A better flu drug is on its way. This new class of specific, mechanism-based anti-influenza drug works by preventing the...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Biotron starts phase II trial for HIV-hepatitis co-infection

Singapore: Australian drug development company, Biotron, has commenced a landmark phase II human trial of its lead anti...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
Biotech nutraceuticals is the way forward

Food has been used as a pharmaceutical agent to treat diseases since time immemorial and the pharmaceutical use of food ...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | Opinion
First-of-its-kind endogenous fluorescent flower

Singapore: Adelaide-based company, Bioconst, commenced research on its second generation of fluorescent flowers using DN...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
Allied Healthcare's CardioCel trial shows efficacy

Singapore: Australia-based Allied Healthcare's ongoing phase II extension study for CardioCel, its lead regenerative tis...

September 25, 2013 | Wednesday | News
CSL to pay $64 mn to settle US antitrust litigation

Singapore: Australia biopharmaceutical firm CSL has signed an agreement to settle the US antitrust class action litigati...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Cytori's Celution system gets Aus TGA nod

Singapore: Cytori Therapeutics received notice from the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) that its Celut...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory