Starpharma, Makhteshim enter agro collaboration

Singapore: Starpharma Holdings and Makhteshim Agan Group announced a collaboration program that will see Starpharma's P...

March 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Orthocell gets ASX listing, plans to raise $8mn initially

Singapore: Australian regenerative medicine firm, Orthocell, is looking ahead to raise $8 million through an Initial Pub...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | News
Australian prof lauds US nanotech use in diagnostics

Singapore: Professor Justin Cooper-White of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology spent a week ...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | News
Novogen to acquire Triaxial for $1.88 million

Singapore: Novogen has agreed to acquire all of the shares of Triaxial Pharmaceuticals for $1.88 million in a combinatio...

November 20, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Sunshine Heart gets unconditional approval from FDA

Singapore: Sunshine Heart, a global medical device company focused on innovative technologies for moderate to severe he...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
CSL makes a settlement in Perth vaccine victim case

Singapore: In an ongoing case where Perth-based Ms Saba Button suffered severe disability following a flu vaccine manufa...

June 9, 2014 | Monday | News
US, EU, Aussie and Canada together churn $98.8 bn biotech revenue in 2013: EY

Singapore: Global biotechnology industry rebounded strongly in 2013, with public companies achieving double-digit revenu...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Pharmaxis gets grants for fibrotic research

Singapore: Australian pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis' research projects conducted in conjunction with the University o...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Book Doctor's appointment through an app

Singapore: In a bid to provide easier access to primary healthcare services, CQ medicare local has secured funding for t...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Clinical Network Services acquires Beltas' assets

Singapore: Clinical Network Services (CNS), an Australia-based CRO offering integrated development services in the plann...

January 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Clinical Network Services acquires BELTAS' business assets

Singapore: Australian CRO, Clinical Network Services (CNS), has acquired the business assets of its erstwhile New Zealan...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mesoblast to set up stem cell drug plant in Singapore

Singapore: Australian regenerative drug company, Mesoblast, is planning to expand its global manufacturing base and the ...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | News
Phylogica extends collaboration with Janssen Biotech

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

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
Novartis MenB vaccine gets approval in Australia

Singapore: Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved Novartis' Bexsero, a multi-component Meningoco...

August 15, 2013 | Thursday | News
Chickungunya can soon be prevented with a vaccine

Singapore: Australian biotech firm, Themis Bioscience GmbH declared the successful interim results of their prophylactic...

June 13, 2014 | Friday | News
Universal gets $250k tech implementation vouchers

Singapore: Universal Biosensors, developer of cardiac marker biosensor, is one-of-the-seven firms to receive Technology ...

April 15, 2013 | Monday | News
Who will wear the CSL mantle?

Singapore: Current president of CSL Behring, Mr Paul Perreault, will be the new CEO of the firm after Dr Brian McNamee s...

August 6, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Cell pics by GE contest winners to light up Times Square

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences has chosen Ms Jane Stout (from the US), Ms Anushree Balachandran (from Australia)...

February 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
Viralytics accelerates patient recruitment for Cavatak trial

Singapore: Patient recruitment in phase II CALM trial has accelerated significantly in the past three months with 25 pa...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
OECD: Australia has 527 biotech firms, ranks 6th

Singapore: According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) directorate for Science, Tec...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Dr John Ballard: Angel of Australia biotech

Veterans in the life sciences industry in Australia distinguish Dr John Ballard as one of the founding and most signific...

March 13, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
AtCor Medical wins $3.2 mn contract

Singapore: AtCor Medical, developer and marketer of the SphygmoCor system which measures central aortic blood pressures ...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
BioSA awards for Aussie innovators

Singapore: BioSA revealed that names of the awardees of the BioSA Bioscience Achievement Awards at its Welcome Reception...

March 28, 2013 | Thursday | News
iSonea updates its AsthmaSense app

Singapore: Medical technology company iSonea has unveiled an updated version of its AsthmaSense asthma management smart...

December 7, 2012 | Friday | News
Abraxane cancer trial shows positive results in Australia

Singapore: Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA) is going to publish abstracts related to its phase III metastatic me...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
Aus govt gives Mesoblast $4.3 mn for stem cell work

Singapore: Mesoblast has received approximately $4.3 million under the Australian Government's Innovation Australia Rese...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Paul Ramsay leaves $3 bn to Ramsay Healthcare

Singapore: The founder of Ramsay Health Care, Mr Paul Ramsay breathed his last and even during his last moments left mor...

May 12, 2014 | Monday | News
Australia develops intelligent hi-res retinal camera

Singapore: The Australian Government's Cooperative Research Center (CRC) Program is providing susbtantial amounts of fun...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
IDT appoints Paul MacLeman as CEO

Singapore: IDT Australia appointed Dr Paul MacLeman as CEO, effective April 15, 2013. Dr MacLeman was recently the CEO o...

April 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Obese children more prone to Asthma: Study

Singapore: Researchers from the UK and Australia proved in a study that excess weight and obesity among children was a m...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Dr Brian McNamee to step down from CSL

Singapore: After 23 years of being at the helm of CSL, Dr Brian McNamee will leave the firm in July 2013 and will be suc...

August 6, 2012 | Monday | News
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
Genetic Technologies Announces Key Managerial Appointment

Singapore: Genetic Technologies announced the appointment of Mr. Mark Ostrowski as Senior Vice President Sales and Ma...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
IMCD acquires Aussie pharma distributor

Singapore: Global distribution firm IMCD Group has acquired Capitol Ingredients Australia, a Sydney headquartered specia...

August 2, 2013 | Friday | News
Bionomics, CTx advance in growth factor research

Singapore: Bionomics joint program with the Australian Partner consortium Co-operative Research Centre for Cancer Therap...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
Ansell Completes Acquisition of Comasec SAS

Singapore: Ansell, global leader in protective solutions, has successfully concluded its acquisition of Comasec SAS, ha...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Commercialisation Australia grants $1 mn to Proteomics

Singapore: Commercialisation Australia has awarded Proteomics International, a life sciences company based in Perth, wit...

August 23, 2012 | Thursday | News
Vaccines do not cause autism: Study

Singapore: Researchers from the University of Sydney, have dismissed any link between development of autism and childho...

May 30, 2014 | Friday | News
Cancer researcher gets Aus academy's highest accolade

Singapore: Cancer researcher Professor Jerry Adams has won the Australian Academy of Science's most prestigious award fo...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
Aussie drug delivery firm raises $19.3 mn

Singapore: Australian drug delivery company, Phosphagenics, has raised $19.3 million via a placement of $16.3 million to...

July 15, 2014 | Tuesday | News
AusBiotech, Hong Kong firm to partner on investment events

Singapore: Biotechnology industry group, AusBiotech and Beacon Events, organiser of the largest resource sector investor...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
University of Sydney makes big takeover

Singapore: In a bid to ahead a major initiative towards the advancement of fertility research and treatment, the Univers...

July 16, 2014 | Wednesday | News
PolyActiva raises US$9.4 mn in Series B venture funding

Singapore: PolyActiva announced today that it has raised US$9.4 million (AU$9.2 million) in a Series B financing round f...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Viralytics gets positive prelim data for Cavatak

Singapore: Viralytics, a company listed in the Australian Securities Exchange, has received positive preliminary data i...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | News
Starpharma's formulation shows improvement in crop protection

Singapore: Starpharma Holdings announced that its new agrochemical dendrimer formulations have shown further improved f...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
New South Wales gets Medical Devices Fund

Singapore: New South Wales (NSW) Health and Medical Research Strategic Review has established Medical Devices Fund (MDF)...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Ansell, Ramsay enter global purchasing agreement

Singapore: Australia-based healthcare safety solutions provider, Ansell, entered into a multi-year purchasing agreement ...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Algae.Tec biofuels technology to feature at 2012 ILA Berlin airshow

Singapore: Sourcing sustainable aviation biofuels at-scale is a major theme at this year's ILA Berlin Airshow and its d...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Science Academy welcomes biomedical research commitment

Singapore: The Australian Academy of Science has welcomed the Federal Government's announcement of the medical research ...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Viralytics receives $1.4 mn R&D tax concession

Singapore: Viralytics has received $1.467 million from the Australian Taxation Office for a research and development ta...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Tamoxifen found to reduce second breast cancer

Singapore: A latest research has shown that taking the drug tamoxifen is found to sharply reduce the risk of getting a s...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Ansell, Ramsay Health Care Enter Global Multi-Year Purchasing Agreement

Singapore: Ansell, a global leader in medical gloves and healthcare safety solutions, has entered into a multi-year pur...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
First RayStation order from Australia

Singapore: RaySearch Laboratories has received an order for its RayStation treatment planning system from The Radiation...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Prima BioMed appoints Mathew Lehman as CEO

Singapore: Mr Matthew Lehman will be the new chief exceutive officer of Australia-based Prima BioMed. The company's pres...

May 29, 2012 | Tuesday | News
New investment fund Verde started in Australia

Bangalore: A new investment fund called Verde has been set up to finance the commercialization of Australia's world lead...

November 5, 2012 | Monday | News
Biodiem gets US patent allowance for antifungal therapy

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem has received notice of Allowanc...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
AusBiotech joins new Council to represent Australian agricultural biotechnology

Singapore: A joint initiative of AusBiotech, CropLife Australia, Grains Research and Development Corporation and the Na...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Genetic diagnostics companies speed ahead

The playing field for research and development for genetic diagnostics has been leveled. The landmark decision by the US...

June 28, 2013 | Friday | Opinion
Value Plastics expands with eyes on Asia Pacific

Colorado-based Value Plastics (VP) a Nordson company, designs, develops and manufactures a standard line of plastic tubi...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
A blend of skills

"It has been Dr Silviu Itescu's extraordinary vision and intellectual rigor that has underpinned Mesoblast's resounding ...

March 15, 2012 | Thursday | Influencers
New CoolPal Vertos Advance launched by Pelican BioThermal

US based Pelical BioThermal which is a global leader providing the broadcast and most innovative range of temperature-co...

January 19, 2017 | Thursday | News

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