Japan gives patent for Medgenics IFNa pump

Singapore: Medgenics received a Notice of Allowance from the Japanese Patent and Trademark Office for key claims protec...

December 7, 2012 | Friday | News
Is the traditional healthcare system collapsing?

Singapore: Globally, the healthcare industry is in a state of accelerated evolution due to changing demographics and var...

February 20, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Allied has big plans for its HPV vaccine in 2013

Allied Healthcare Group's investment company, Coridon, which is led by Professor Ian Frazer, is in the process of develo...

January 2, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
McCord grants $150,000 for cancer drug research

Singapore: McCord Research provided grants worth $150,000 to Dr Tom Karagiannis and his team at the Baker IDI Heart and ...

May 14, 2012 | Monday | News
CSIRO granted patents for RNAi technology

Singapore: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), which is Australia's leading scient...

May 30, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Policy reforms boost biotech talent pool

Reforms in government policies and initiatives have helped in setting focus for bioscience companies, which has resulted...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Australia gears up for its annual biotech extravaganza

Singapore: This year's AusBiotech Conference, which is scheduled to be held from October 30 to November 02, 2012 in Melb...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Sleep medtech firm files patent suit in international court

‎Singapore: ResMed, a sleep-disorder medical device company, has filed parallel legal actions in the International...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | News
Australian academy of science gets new council members

Singapore: Internationally-recognized experts in computing and atmospheric physics, developmental biology, organometalli...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Healthcare fund generates $1.81 for every $1 spent

Singapore: The IB Australian Bioscience Fund I has generated a unit price of $1.81 for every dollar invested four and a ...

April 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Lupin Pharma CEO bags E&Y Family Business Award

Bangalore: Ms Vinita Gupta, CEO, Lupin Pharmaceuticals, was named the inaugural Ernst & Young US 2012 Family Busine...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Patrys' 2nd group concludes treatment in Germany

Singapore: Patrys completed initial treatment of second group of three patients in its phase I/IIa PAT-SM6 multiple myel...

April 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Novogen to develop new class of cancer drugs

Singapore: Australia-based Novogen has acquired a novel drug technology that will be developed as a potentially major cl...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Fibrotech's fibrosis drugs secures NA patents

Singapore: Fibrotech Therapeutics, based in Melbourne has secured composition of matter patents in each jurisdiction rel...

March 3, 2014 | Monday | News
BGI, Griffith University to collaborate on teaching, research

Singapore: BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, and Griffith University in Australia have signed an agreement...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Aussie firm Mayne to acquire Metrics

Singapore: Mayne Pharma has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Metrics, a privately-owned, US-based provider of...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Genetic Technologies files patent infringement suits in the US

Singapore: Genetic Technologies, a diagnostics company listed with the ASX and NASDAQ, has filed patent infringement sui...

October 15, 2012 | Monday | News
Phosphagenics appoints three new non-executive directors

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company Phosphagenics has appointed biotech industry veterans Mr Lawrence...

March 4, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Novogen enters into merger agreement with Kai Medical

Singapore: Novogen has entered into a merger agreement with Kai Medical, whose business is focused on sleep apnea therap...

July 30, 2012 | Monday | News
Accenture MD: Only highly evolved nations spend on IT healthcare

Integration of information and technology (IT) in healthcare services and translating the potential into better delivery...

November 5, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Aus researchers identify key Alzheimer's risk factors

Singapore: Australian scientists are helping to unravel the links between a person's brain chemistry, genes and their ri...

July 15, 2013 | Monday | News
Aus cellbio firm enters deal with UK protein company

Singapore: Australia-based TGR BioSciences, a developer of advanced cell-based assay technologies, has signed a license ...

September 23, 2013 | Monday | News
SeerPharma explores markets in India, China

Australia-based SeerPharma, which offers international quality management and compliance experience, and advice to suppo...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
Patrys gets US patent for human antibody

Singapore: Patrys, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has received a US patent for its lead product PAT-SM6. P...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | News
uHealth to distribute AirSonea in Australia

Singapore: US-based medical technology company iSonea has collaborated with the Sydney-based digital health organization...

October 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
DSM sign biologics contract with Paranta

Singapore: DSM Pharmaceutical Products signed a biologics contract manufacturing agreement with Paranta Biosciences of ...

October 25, 2012 | Thursday | News
Pharmaxis to launch cystic fibrosis drug in Europe

Singapore: Australian pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis is all set to launch Bronchitol for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
Alchemia enrolls patients for cancer trial

Singapore: Alchemia has completed enrollment of patients in a pivotal phase III clinical trial evaluating its lead prod...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | News
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
Aussie firm Phebra inaugurates manufacturing unit

Singapore: Sydney-based pharmaceutical company Phebra has inaugurated its $25 million manufacturing facilities at Lane C...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Phospagenics, Nippon Zoki to develop pain drug

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company Phosphagenics has extended its collaboration with its high calib...

April 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
DSM Pharma, DecImmune sign antibody deal

Singapore: Australia's DSM Pharmaceutical, the custom manufacturing and technology business of Royal DSM, has signed an ...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Flu vaccine reduces heart attack risk

Singapore: Regular shots of influenza injections have the added benefit of reducing the risk of heart attacks in people ...

August 22, 2013 | Thursday | News
M&A activity slows down in APAC

In 2011, the number of mergers and acquisitions in the life sciences field of Asia Pacific witnessed a fall. An indepen...

June 19, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Viralytics melanoma study shows +ve results

Singapore: Assistant Professor (Dr) Robert H I Andtbacka presented a summary of his ongoing study with Viralytics' Cavat...

March 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Stem cell industry has substantial growth potential

The Nobel prize for Physiology to two stem cell research scientists in 2012 has firmly put the spotlight on this promisi...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Prima BioMed announces changes in senior management

Singapore: Australian firm Prima BioMed suggested several changes to its senior management and its board of directors, w...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | News
Genetic diagnostics usher in a new era in healthcare

Thanks to the Human Genome Project, scientists now have a set of tools that can be readily used to understand the comple...

December 18, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Melbourne firm, Optimer sign deal for DIFICID

Singapore: A new therapy to treat a common hospital superbug infection Clostridium difficile will soon be available to A...

June 20, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Aussie's CardioCel gets US approval

Singapore: Australia based Admedus has received FDA clearance to market CardioCel in the US. CardioCel is the group's l...

February 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Biolife HER-Vaxx B cell peptide vaccine hailed

Singapore: Biolife Science's strategy of targeting the tumour-associated antigen HER-2/NEU has been the focus of a recen...

March 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia biologics manufacturers face the 'quality challenge'

Biologics manufacturers in Asia have to be more vigilant and give higher priority to product safety and product efficacy...

March 7, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Biota shareholders' meet on Sept 25 for merger with Nabi

Singapore: The Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, has ordered a meeting of Biota Holdings shareholders to consider an...

August 13, 2012 | Monday | News
Viralytics presents +ve results of phase II Cavatak trial

Singapore: Viralytics reported strong interim results from its phase II clinical trial of Cavatak treatment in late stag...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Breakthrough in prostate cancer research

Singapore: Researchers in Monash University, Australia, have found prostate cancer cells that survive androgen withdrawa...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | News
Competition intensifies for type 2 diabetes drugs

Singapore: The global pre-diabetes population is three times the size of the current diabetes patient population and the...

August 28, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Digital healthcare, the next big thing

A radical shift in how healthcare is delivered globally is underway. Game-changing developments in sensor technologies w...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Phylogica gets Aus patent for Phylomer library

Singapore: Phylogica has received a core patent in Australia (Registration no: 2009251209; Divisional of AU 2008200790)...

March 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Top brass changes at medical device major iSonea

Singapore: In a bid to shift its focus from technology development to sales, Australia's top medical device manufacturer...

January 7, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Logistics provider STL Warehousing expanding

Singapore: In a move to venture into the global market, Australia's leading healthcare logistics provider STL Warehousin...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | News
GI Dynamics gets FDA nod for diabetes and obesity trial

Singapore: GI Dynamics received conditional approval from the US FDA to commence a pivotal clinical trial of the EndoBar...

August 24, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
What are the hurdles before stem cell research?

The pioneering research of Nobel Laureates Sir John Gurdon and Dr Shinya Yamanaka on reprogramming adult stem cells has ...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Takeda R&D filed 7 NDAs in the last 8 months

Singapore: Takeda Global Research and Development, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical, has filed seven n...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Start-up to commercialize blood collection tube

Singapore: Australia's Medical Research Commercialization Fund (MRCF) and the Uniseed Commercialization Fund have jointl...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
US firm wins stem cell drug patent in Australia

Singapore: US-based Osiris Therapeutics, which develops and markets stem cell products to treat serious medical conditio...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
iSonea launches first mobile asthma technology

Singapore: Medical technology company iSonea launched its first asthma management smartphone app, AsthmaSense, for iPhon...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | News
Bionomics launches ovarian cancer trial

Singapore: Bionomics Limited launched a phase I/II clinical trial of its vascular disrupting agent BNC105 in women with ...

May 24, 2012 | Thursday | News
Sigma marks a century of achievements

After witnessing a turbulent year of 2009-10, the focus of Australia-based Sigma Pharmaceuticals in 2011 was restructu...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
HealthLinx meets ovarian cancer test needs

There is no reliable diagnostic blood test for ovarian cancer. The current market gold standard, CA125, is used as an ai...

April 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
BS Survey: Healthcare is getting smarter in Asia

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November 30, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
BioDiem gets license for novel vaccine technology

Singapore: Australian National University (ANU) has granted an exclusive license to vaccine development company, BioDiem...

June 8, 2012 | Friday | News
Challenge No 2: Missing industry hubs

The Asia Pacific region, barring the developed nations of Australia and Singapore, needs "critical mass" where interdepe...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Aussies to get breast cancer treatment analysis

Singapore: Australian women will potentially have greater access to the only genomic test validated to predict whether p...

January 7, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Cancer Therapeutics reveals new targeted drug

Singapore: Cancer Therapeutics, an Australian company focused on translating cancer biology research into novel treatmen...

July 5, 2012 | Thursday | News
Australia approves Hospira's biosimilar

Singapore: Hospira's Inflectra (infliximab), the first monoclonal antibody (mAb) biosimilar therapy, has been registered...

August 20, 2015 | Thursday | News
Trial of cancer killing virus-based drug is a success

Singapore: Viralytics Biotech and Amgen, released top line results on its oncolytic virotherapy investigational product...

March 22, 2013 | Friday | News
F&S: Double-digit growth for APAC pharma

Singapore: The pharmaceuticals industry in the Asia Pacific is thriving on the back of escalating population and increa...

December 5, 2012 | Wednesday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: APAC CROs stick to an average of 50 clients

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Phylogica, Janssen expand drug discovery tie-up

Singapore: Phylogica, a leading Australian peptide drug discovery company, is expanding its collaboration with Janssen B...

July 1, 2013 | Monday | News
New antibody-based drug to cure diabetes

Singapore: CSL has developed a new drug candidate that is able to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes and revers...

September 27, 2012 | Thursday | News
Hot investment destinations in Asia

Asia's two leading economies, India and China are actively working on new strategies to attract money into the bioscienc...

June 26, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
QrxPharma, Aesica expand drug delivery technology

Singapore: Australia-based QRxPharma has collaborated with Aesica Formulation Development for the world-wide promotion o...

July 22, 2013 | Monday | News
New medtech market infographic published

Singapore: Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) recently published an original infographic and supporting arti...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
3M, Aussie firm collaborate to develop vaccine technology

Singapore: Australia based Ascend Biopharmaceuticals has collaborated with 3M Drug Delivery Systems to evaluate 3M's Tol...

November 29, 2013 | Friday | News
Fovia to image cancer cells using HD volume

Singapore: Fovia Medical, a world leader in volume rendering technology, and Contrast Imaging, a leading Australian pro...

April 1, 2013 | Monday | News
BioDiem, Griffith University join hands for antimicrobial compound

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy development company BioDiem signed an agreement with Griffith Universi...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
pSivida enrols first patient in Uveitis trial

Singapore: pSivida, a leader in developing sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye di...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Australian CRO expands its operations in HongKong

Singapore: Australia-based contract research organization, Novotech, recently announced that it has expanded its Hong Ko...

January 23, 2015 | Friday | News
Cochlear electrode gets US FDA approval

Singapore: Cochlear has received the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Nucleus CI422 with Slim St...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
REVA Medical appoints investigator for clinical trial

Singapore: REVA Medical, listed with the ASX, has appointed Dr David Muller, director, Cardiac Catheterization at St Vin...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Patrys gets regulatory approval for Multiple Myeloma trial

Singapore: Australia Patrys, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has received approval to commence its planned P...

September 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
What services do APAC CROs offer to their clients?

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

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Novel monoclonal antibodies to combat cancer

Singapore: The Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) entered into research collaboration wit...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News