Merck’s Keytruda gets approval in China for advanced melanoma

Merck known as MSD outside the United States and Canada has announced that KEYTRUDA Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, has...

July 30, 2018 | Monday | News
HitGen enters into research collaboration with Sanofi

HitGen, a biotech company with headquarters and main research facilities based in Chengdu, China, and with facilities in...

July 30, 2018 | Monday | News
I-Mab Biopharma, ABL Bio collaborate for innovative bispecific Abs

China based I-Mab Biopharma, a company focusing on innovative biologics in immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation, and ...

July 27, 2018 | Friday | News
WuXi STA’s Jinshan site passes fourth U.S. FDA inspection

STA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., (WuXi STA), a subsidiary of WuXi AppTec, announces that its Active Pharmaceutical Ingredie...

July 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
Innovent receives IND approval to initiate Clinical Trials in China

Innovent Biologics, a world-class China-based biopharmaceutical company that develops and intends to commercialize high ...

July 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
Terumo acquires China based Essen Tech

Terumo Corporation recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Essen Technology (Beijing) Co., L...

July 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
BMS collaborates with Tsinghua University for drug development

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has formed a new collaboration with Beijing's Tsinghua University to develop drugs for novel ...

July 25, 2018 | Wednesday | News
CStone Pharmaceuticals appoints Richard Yeh as CFO

CStone Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company devoted to developing a new generation of innovative drugs has annou...

July 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences to stop output after drug safety scandal

China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has issued an announcement asking Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences, China&rs...

July 23, 2018 | Monday | News
HK researchers design neurosurgical robotic system

A group of researchers at the University Hong Kong has developed a robotic system that can perform neurosurgery inside a...

July 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Luye Pharma receives China approval for CNS drug

Luye Pharma Group has announced that its Central Nervous System (CNS) drug, Seroquel XR (Quetiapine Fumarate XR), has re...

July 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Yisheng expands with new business divisions in Cambodia

Yisheng Biopharma Co., Ltd. ("Yisheng Biopharma"), a biopharmaceutical company focusing on research, development, manufa...

July 20, 2018 | Friday | News
Janssen gets indication expansion approval to treat CLL/ SLL

Johnson & Johnson, subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced that its one hundred million Ke ® (imat...

July 20, 2018 | Friday | News
WuXi STA, Antengene ink strategic agreement

STA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of WuXi AppTec, and Antengene Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, recen...

July 20, 2018 | Friday | News
Esco establishes MoU for CAR-T pipeline in China

Singapore – Esco Aster, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) of Esco Group, announced the ...

July 20, 2018 | Friday | News
Laurel VC, Alpine complete sale divestiture of GSNOR Assets

Laurel Venture Capital, a life science focused venture capital fund based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, and Alp...

July 20, 2018 | Friday | News
Shuwen Biotech gets two year extension of CAP accreditation

Following a 2016 accreditation of Shuwen Biotech’s central lab, Shuwen Guanz Diagnostic Lab Co., Ltd, Shuwen has a...

July 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
Novel Alzheimer's remedy from China clinches Phase 3 clinical trials

Green Valley Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced that its Phase 3 Study of Sodium Oligomannurarate (GV-971) Capsules on m...

July 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
Ascentage Pharma secures $150M in Series C Financing

In a round co-led by existing investors YuanMing Prudence Fund and Oriza Seed Venture Capital as well as new investor Te...

July 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
GIC to invest $75M in Ascletis’ Hong Kong IPO

Ascletis Pharma, the first biotechnology firm to file for an IPO in Hong Kong following recent listing reforms, has secu...

July 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
EOS Imaging enter into agreement with Fosun Pharma

EOS imaging, the pioneer of orthopedic medical imaging 2D / 3D, has entered into a binding agreement with Fosun Pharmace...

July 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
Aetna announces partnership with Mind HK

Global health care benefits provider Aetna International has announced that it will work with non-profit organization, M...

July 16, 2018 | Monday | News
iFLYTEK to develop breast cancer detection wearable device

iFlytek, the largest publicly-listed AI technology company in the Asia-Pacific region has further advanced its healthcar...

July 16, 2018 | Monday | News
Haitong invests in US biotech company

Orig3n, a Boston-based biotech research company pioneering the future of health through genetics and regenerative medici...

July 16, 2018 | Monday | News
Merck inks deal with China's Xian Janssen for type 2 diabetes drug

Global drug giant, Merck signed an agreement with China's Xian Janssen Pharmaceuticals in Beijing on July...

July 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
CStone's PD-1 inhibitor CS1003 gets clinical trial approval in China

CStone Pharmaceuticals Co. LTD devoted to developing next-generation innovative drugs, announced that the China National...

July 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
GT Healthcare invests $26.6M in Potrero Medical

Potrero Medical, Inc., a predictive health company focused on using smart sensors and analytics for early detection of c...

July 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
Adlai Nortye acquires global rights to Novartis cancer drug

China based Adlai Nortye Biopharma Co., Ltd., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering and commercializing n...

July 11, 2018 | Wednesday | News
China ready to slash Indian medicine tariffs

China and India have entered in an agreement to reduce tariffs and increase imports of Indian medicines, particularly an...

July 10, 2018 | Tuesday | News
IDS Medical, WeDoctor to distribute medical devices in China

IDS Medical Systems Group Limited and We Doctor Holdings Limited have signed an agreement to form idsMED WeDoctor China ...

July 10, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Amphastar announces expansion of ANP

Singapore – Amphastar Pharmaceuticals announced business expansion plans for its subsidiary, Amphastar Nanjin...

July 9, 2018 | Monday | News
Chinese firms looking out to buy Sinclair Pharma

China Grand Enterprises Inc. and its affiliate Huadong Medicine Co. have made an approach to acquire Sinclair Pharma Plc...

July 9, 2018 | Monday | News
Suzhou Kintor enters into agreement with Predicine

China based Suzhou Kintor Pharma has announced a global partnership with Predicine, a US-China diagnostics company, usin...

July 9, 2018 | Monday | News
LinkDoc raises $151 M from series D round

LinkDoc Technology, a Beijing big data company focusing on cancer, completed a $151 million D financing that was led by ...

July 6, 2018 | Friday | News
Sinovac secures $86.7M capital raise

 Singapore- Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced that it has ...

July 4, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi opens $77 M R&D Facility in Chengdu

Sanofi has launched a $77 million Global R&D Operations Hub in Chengdu, which will focus on digitalization and big d...

July 4, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Athenex announces joint venture with Xiangxue Life Sciences

Athenex Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel ...

July 3, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Esco Group to set up innovation centre in China

Singapore-based life sciences ecosystem builder Esco Group is investing $15 million into a new manufacturing and innovat...

July 3, 2018 | Tuesday | News
China-developed anticancer drug to be approved by year end

A China-developed anticancer drug has been submitted to the China Food and Drug Administration for approval.  The ...

July 2, 2018 | Monday | News
China -Israel Innovation & Investment Summit starts from 2nd July

The 4th China-Israel Investment Summit will be held at the Zhuhai International Convention and Exhibition Center from Ju...

July 2, 2018 | Monday | News
I-Mab raises $220M to advance clinical developments

China based biotechnology startup I-Mab Biopharma has raised $220 million in a Series C round led by Hony Capital and jo...

July 2, 2018 | Monday | News
Yourui Pharma completes Series B financing

Yourui Pharmaceutical Technology is a leading specialty pharmaceutical company in China, headquarters in Shanghai. It ha...

June 29, 2018 | Friday | News
Agilent opens new logistics hub in China

Agilent Technologies Inc. has opened a new logistics hub in Shanghai, designed to enable faster delivery of parts, suppl...

June 29, 2018 | Friday | News
Amyris forms Microbiome JV with BGI Genomics

Amyris, Inc., a leader in the development and production of sustainable, fermentation-derived ingredients in the markets...

June 28, 2018 | Thursday | News
Nuance raises funds to commercialize high-value pharmaceuticals in China

Nuance Biotech, a China-based specialty pharmaceutical company, has announced Series B fundraising of US$20 million with...

June 28, 2018 | Thursday | News
Ascletis, CR Pharma sign strategic cooperation agreement

Ascletis BioScience Co., Ltd. and CR Pharmaceutical Commercial Group Co., Ltd. have jointly announced that the two parti...

June 27, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Everest Medicines acquires rights to Novartis liver cancer treatment

Everest Medicines, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing transformative pharmaceutical p...

June 27, 2018 | Wednesday | News
WuXi Biologics enters into strategic partnership with Harbour BioMed

WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for bio...

June 25, 2018 | Monday | News
CASI, Yiling Wanzhou team up to manufacture entecavir, cilostazol

CASI Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and delivery of high quality, cost-...

June 25, 2018 | Monday | News
OUELH extends footprint in healthcare market

OUE Lippo Healthcare Limited (OUELH) has announced that its joint venture company with leading Chinese state-owned congl...

June 22, 2018 | Friday | News
Tot Biopharm opens new biologics facility in Suzhou

Chinese bio-pharmaceutical developer, manufacturer and marketer of oncology drugs Tot Biopharm recently a...

June 22, 2018 | Friday | News
Alibaba sells medical assets for HK $10.6 B

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is selling its medical assets for HK$10.6 billion ($1.4 billion) to a Hong Kong-listed unit t...

June 21, 2018 | Thursday | News
Alpha Biopharma announces series A financing

Alpha Biopharma Inc has announced the first $37 million closing of its $65 million Series A financing led by Q...

June 21, 2018 | Thursday | News
Nuance enters $58 M deal for non-opioid pain treatment in China

Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Nuance Biotech Co. Ltd have entered into an agreement with Nuance, a China based specia...

June 21, 2018 | Thursday | News
HKBU researchers invent medical device using nanotechnology

The research team of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has invented a medical device with a specific nanotechnology la...

June 20, 2018 | Wednesday | News
WuXi Biologics Initiates Construction of a Integrated ADC Solution Center in China

WuXi Biologics , a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions fo...

June 20, 2018 | Wednesday | News
China approves country's first immunotherapy drug for cancer

Bristol Myers Squibb recently announced  that the China National Drug Administration (CNDA) has approved ...

June 19, 2018 | Tuesday | News
HK researchers invent universal antibody drug against HIV/AIDS

AIDS remains an incurable disease. In the world, HIV/AIDS has resulted in estimated 40 million deaths while 36.9 million...

June 18, 2018 | Monday | News
Aptose inks license agreement with CrystalGenomics

Aptose Biosciences Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to developing personalized therapies addressin...

June 18, 2018 | Monday | News
Scientists find stem cell therapy helpful in curing Parkinson’s

Parkinson’s disease is one of the leading neural degenerative disorders which is primarily caused by death of dopa...

June 18, 2018 | Monday | News
Yaoshibang completes $65.7M financing round

Yaoshibang, a Guangzhou-based online pharmacy trading and education platform, recently completed a RMB420 million ($65.7...

June 15, 2018 | Friday | News
J & J Innovation to offer new solutions to fight cancer

Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Division of Johnson & Johnson (China) Investment Ltd., launched the Shanghai Lung ...

June 14, 2018 | Thursday | News
Suven Life Sciences gets patents in China and US

Suven Life Sciences said it has obtained one product patent each from China and the US related to its  5-HT4 and 5 ...

June 14, 2018 | Thursday | News
Ganovo approval marks a milestone for MAH policy in China

Ascletis (partner of WuXi STA) receives approval from National Drug Administration of China (CNDA, former CFDA) of its C...

June 14, 2018 | Thursday | News
Hebron Technology to expand in Healthcare Industry Solutions

Hebron Technology Co., Ltd., a developer, manufacturer and installer of valves and pipe fittings for use in the pharmace...

June 13, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Shanghai Kinetic to acquire Elliquence for $77 M

Shanghai Kinetic Medical Co recently announced that it plans to take over US medical technology company Elliquence LLC f...

June 13, 2018 | Wednesday | News
WuXi AppTec, Insilico unite to integrate AI with Drug Discovery

Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based next-generation artificial intelligence company specialized in the application of d...

June 12, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Zai Lab appoints AstraZeneca's William Liang as CCO

Zai Lab, a Shanghai-based innovative biopharmaceutical company, recently announced that Mr William Liang has b...

June 11, 2018 | Monday | News
WuXi Biologics to invest $60 million for its first overseas site in U.S.

WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for bio...

June 11, 2018 | Monday | News
Xiangxue Pharma to build cell therapy facility

GE Healthcare will provide China-based Xiangxue Pharmaceutical (XPH) with a FlexFactory for cell therapy. The system, ex...

June 9, 2018 | Saturday | News
Pivotal China leads $16.5M seed funding for Oncologie

Oncologie, an innovative biopharmaceutical company, recently announced that it is launching operations in both Boston an...

June 8, 2018 | Friday | News
Chinese researchers develop Velcro sensor for cancer cells

A group of researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University Third Hospital has developed a new type of...

June 8, 2018 | Friday | News
CFDA approves domestically developed anti-HIV drug

China has approved the first domestically developed, long-acting injectable HIV drug Albuvirtide, which could be a boon ...

June 6, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Wize Pharma signs distribution agreement in China for LO2A

Singapore-  Wize Pharma, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of ophthalmic disorder...

June 6, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Quantum Surgical raises Series A capital from Ally Bridge

Ally Bridge Group (ABG), a China-centered healthcare investor, has completed a Series A investment, as the first part of...

June 6, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Domestic pharma industry driving huge machinery influx at P-MEC China

P-MEC China will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC), Shanghai, China, from 20-22 Ju...

June 5, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Blueprint inks deal on oncology therapies with CStone

Singapore- Blueprint Medicines and CStone Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company announce an e...

June 4, 2018 | Monday | News
Xynomic Pharma completes series B financing

Xynomic Pharma, a clinical stage US-China oncology drug development company, recently announced that it has complete...

June 3, 2018 | Sunday | News
Chinese AI startup raises $1.2 billion in mere months

SenseTime Group has raised $620 million at a valuation of more than $4.5 billion just months after scoring a similar amo...

May 31, 2018 | Thursday | News
CDA approves Gilead’s chronic hepatitis C virus infection drug

Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced that the China Drug Administration (CDA) has approved Epclusa for the treatment of a...

May 31, 2018 | Thursday | News
WuXi, Tsinghua announce strategic partnership

WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company offering end-to-end solutions for bio...

May 30, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Alibaba Health IT buys Ali JK medical products for $1.35 billion

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will inject some of its online pharmacy business into a listed unit i...

May 29, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Shuwen Biotech, Bliss pharma unite for companion diagnostics of cancer

Shuwen Biotech Co. Ltd., an emerging leader in innovative diagnostic products and services has signed a partnership agre...

May 28, 2018 | Monday | News
Luye Pharma acquires AstraZeneca's signature products

Luye Pharma Group recently announced their acquisition of AstraZeneca's core CNS products - Seroquel and Seroquel XR. As...

May 28, 2018 | Monday | News
PerkinElmer acquires Shanghai Spectrum Instruments

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, recently announced acquisition of Shan...

May 28, 2018 | Monday | News
WuXi Biologics to build new facility in Singapore

China's WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform recently announced pla...

May 28, 2018 | Monday | News
Brii Bio raises $260M to bring drugs to China

Brii Bio, a startup committed to serving patients' needs and improving public health in China, recently announced its la...

May 25, 2018 | Friday | News
Pivotal bioVenture closes Inaugural $150 M Early Stage VC Fund

Pivotal bioVenture Partners China, a member of Nan Fung Life Sciences (NLFS) has announced the closing of Pivotal bioVen...

May 25, 2018 | Friday | News
Venus Medtech inks strategic partnership with Keystone Heart

China Venus Medtech (Hangzhou) Inc. announced a partnership agreement for strategic investment and authorization with Ke...

May 24, 2018 | Thursday | News
Shanghai Pharma, Bracco Imaging sign new agreement

Bracco Imaging S.p.A., a global leader in diagnostic imaging, and Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding Co. Ltd., a leading p...

May 24, 2018 | Thursday | News
Grail secures $300M for early cancer diagnostics

Grail, a Hong Kong-US oncology diagnostics company, recently announced a $300 million C financing. Ally Bridge Group led...

May 23, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Salubris announces investment deal with MedAlliance

Splendris International Limited, an affiliate of Shenzhen Salubris Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd., a multi-national leader in t...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
China creates innovative medical instrument for culturing stem cells

China has created the world's first medical instrument that can induce, culture and screen stem cells automatically, ben...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
Efforts to form Asia’s leading IVF medical group

Mason Group Holdings Limited announced the merger between its subsidiary Reproductive Healthcare and ...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
Cuba and China expand cooperation in the field of biotechnology

Cuba and China have expanded their biotechnology cooperation with the signing of another memorandum of understanding for...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
WuXi Biologics to build new CDMO plant

WuXi Biologics, a leading global open-access biologics technology platform company, offering end-to-end solutions for bi...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
HiFiBiO raises $37.5M from China investors

HiFiBiO Therapeutics, a Boston company developing therapeutic immune modulators, closed a $37.5 million Series...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
HKBU team develops metal-based probes for detecting cancer biomarkers

A team at Hong Kong Baptist University has developed the world’s first iridium (III)-based probes for imaging dopa...

May 16, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Asymchem cofounds Innovative Drug Fund

Asymchem Laboratories has cofounded the Innovative Drug Fund (IDF) together with SDIC Fund Management Company Ltd., the ...

May 16, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Kitov Pharma inks deal with China's Changshan Pharma

Isreal-based Kitov Pharma , an innovative biopharmaceutical company,  has signed a definitive license and commercia...

May 15, 2018 | Tuesday | News

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