MMR, UNIS join hands with Chinese government

Singapore: MMRGlobal announced that through its China joint venture, Unis-Tonghe MMR International Health Management Ser...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Colorcon opens new lab in China

Singapore: US-based Colorcon, a world leader in offering development, supply and technical support to the pharmaceutical...

July 9, 2015 | Thursday | News
China's Shanghai Pharma group to buy Australian Vitaco pharma

Singapore: Chinese drugmaker Shanghai Pharma and private equity firm Primavera capital recently announced their plans to...

August 8, 2016 | Monday | News
Biobanking has attractive prospects in Asia

Asia is becoming increasingly important as a market for upcoming biobanks. Within Asia, India, China and Japan have attr...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
CPhI China to begin from June 21

Singapore: Hosted by the UBM EMEA and CCCMHPIE and co-organised by UBM Sinoexpo, this year's CPhI China will be conducte...

May 10, 2016 | Tuesday | News
China Cord Blood, Cordlife join hands for stem cell therapy services

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC) and Cordlife Group, a multi-product healthcare company catering to the mo...

July 25, 2014 | Friday | News
China firm Beigene raises $75 mn

Singapore: China based biotech firm developing targeted and immune-oncology therapeutics, BeiGene, has raised $75 millio...

November 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Johns Hopkins releases NCD policy briefs

Singapore: Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterpris...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Generon initiates phase I clinical study for F-652 in Australia

Singapore: Generon (Shanghai)has initiated phase I clinical trial for F-652 in Australia. F-652 is a recombinant protein...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Type 2 diabetes could be next epidemic in India, China

Singapore: Despite modern science's best efforts, the most common type of diabetes, Type 2, is reaching epidemic levels ...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Challenge No 1: A culture cauldron

The countries in Asia have different languages, cultures and religion. Some of them are even a melting pot of people fro...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Aus drug delivery technology gets Chinese patent

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company Imugene has received key Chinese patent application for the compa...

April 30, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Successful Year With a Redefined Business Model

Singapore:  SINOPHARM Group, China Chairman: Mr Wei YulinRevenue: $31299.8 mnBusiness: R&D, manufacturing, distrib...

June 23, 2015 | Tuesday | Analysis
China's Zai Lab raises $100mn

Singapore: China based Zai Lab, an innovative biopharmaceutical company, has secured over $100 million in Series B finan...

January 11, 2016 | Monday | News
China launches nationwide inspection of vaccines

Singapore: Ahead of a huge recent vaccine scandal racket revealing China's vaccine black market in March this year, Chin...

July 27, 2016 | Wednesday | News
3SBio appoints Kevin Xiao Weihong as new COO

Singapore: China based 3SBio has appointed Kevin Xiao Weihong as its new chief operating officer. "We are pleased to w...

March 7, 2016 | Monday | News
Breast cancer market will rise to $3.4 billion by 2021'

Singapore: The Asia-Pacific (APAC) breast cancer market is set to experience considerable expansion from $1.9 billion in...

February 16, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Jeremy Yee quits China Cord Blood board

Singapore: Mr Jeremy Yee, an independent non-executive director of China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC), a provider of co...

September 30, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
China's Jiangsu Hengrui to build a new biologics facility

Singapore: China-based Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine recently announced plans to build a biologics manufacturing plant in Suz...

July 20, 2015 | Monday | News
F&S: China, India are hotspot for cardiac imaging

‎Singapore: A new study from Frost & Sullivan titled 'Global Trends in Medical Imaging-Cardiology Applications...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
It's raining expansions and JVs in China!

Biopharma firms, which are located on the western part of the globe, are keeping a close watch on the dragon nation, wit...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
PerkinElmer acquires Chinese diagnostics giant

Singapore: PerkinElmer completed the acquisition of Shanghai Haoyuan Biotech, a China-based infectious disease diagnost...

November 15, 2012 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca continues strategic investment in China

Singapore: AstraZeneca, along with MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has announced a range o...

December 17, 2015 | Thursday | News
Scientists make controversial H7N9 proposal

Singapore: A leading group of influenza scientists have proposed to conduct a highly controversial 'gain-of-function' bi...

August 8, 2013 | Thursday | News
Asia's lung cancer burden

Lung cancer occurs in two types, small cell lung cancer and the more prevalent non-small scale lung cancer. According to...

April 8, 2016 | Friday | Analysis
Biosimilars to push growth in China, Korea, India

Singapore: The annual revenue for biopharmaceuticals has been consistently growing since 2001, accounting for 15.6 perc...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Agilent launches new mass spectrometer in China

Singaore: Agilent Technologies has launched Agilent 5977B High Efficiency Source (HES) GC/MSD System, a tandem gas chrom...

October 27, 2015 | Tuesday | News
India continues to lead China in pharma exports

Singapore: India has maintained its lead over China in terms of pharma exports, according to a statement by the ministry...

July 22, 2016 | Friday | News
Novartis inaugurates its $1 bn research center in China

Singapore: Swiss pharma giant Novartis has recently inaugurated its huge $1 billion research center in China. This is th...

June 6, 2016 | Monday | News
Eisai enters license agreement with HUYA Bioscience

Singapore: Eisai has entered into an exclusive license agreement with HUYA Bioscience International to develop and marke...

February 2, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Korea's Green cross expands cell therapy business in China

Singapore: South Korean biopharmaceutical company, Green Cross, is expanding its presence in China by building a cell th...

March 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
APAC multiple myeloma market to value $2.8 bn by 2021: Report

Singapore: The treatment market for multiple myeloma across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries of China, India, Japan, an...

October 23, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
Going Strong In Hepatitis Drug Profile

Singapore:  SINO BIOPHRMACEUTICAL, China Chairman: Mr Ping TseRevenue: $1534.8 mnBusiness: Research, development, manu...

July 4, 2015 | Saturday | Analysis
Aussie anesthetic firm gets patent from 7 nations

Singapore: Australia-based Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals has been granted patent for its anesthetic formulation Phaxan in t...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Foreign firms in China worried after GSK probe

Singapore: As per British risk consultancy Control Risks, foreign firms operating in China are worried that companies in...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Investigators probed in GSK China scandal formally arrested

Singapore: After almost six weeks of detention and probing, the husband-wife duo of foreign investigators, Mr Peter Hump...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Innovation is the key to drive pharma industry in China

In 13th five-year plan, China has highlighted innovation as the key to drive healthcare industry. What are plans of phar...

May 23, 2016 | Monday | News
Singapore, China universities strengthen ties

To mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Singapore and the People's Republic of China (PRC), three u...

December 17, 2015 | Thursday | News
Singapore's Fortis Surgical Hospital is now Concord Medical Services

Singapore: Concord Medical Services, China based hospital management solution provider, has received Singapore's approva...

October 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Eisai buys Chinese Generics Company Liaoning TianYi

Singapore: Eisai announced that regarding the acquisition of Chinese generic pharmaceutical company Liaoning TianYi Biol...

January 6, 2016 | Wednesday | News
CMC, RuiYi develop monoclonal antibodies cell line

Singapore: US-based contract biopharmaceutical manufacturing CMC Biologics has collaborated with China-focused RuiYi to ...

May 15, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Hutchinson begins human clinical trial of cancer drug

Singapore: Hutchison MediPharma (HMP) has initiated the first-in-human phase I clinical trial of Theliatinib (HMPL-309)...

November 5, 2012 | Monday | News
Now allegations against infant formulation giant in China

Singapore: Accusations of bribing medical staff to boost sales of infant formulas at hospitals in Northern China were hu...

September 24, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China ramps up efforts to curb Ebola

Singapore: The Chinese mobile laboratory stationed at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital at Jui, is playing an i...

December 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Chinese army grants $35 mn contract to cancer care firm

Singapore: Elekta, which develops tools and treatment planning systems for cancer care, has won a major tender in China ...

August 30, 2012 | Thursday | News
Biomics turns RNAi into therapeutics

Biomics Biotechnologies, founded in February 2006, is today Asia's leading RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutical technol...

May 18, 2012 | Friday | Influencers
CARsgen partners with Shanghai Cancer Institute to develop cancer immunotherapies

Singapore: China based CARsgen Therapeutics, a private and venture backed company focused on the development of CAR-T-ba...

September 30, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Chinese firm Tencent invests in Practo

Singapore: Practo has announced that it has received a $90 million investment in a Series C funding round. This round wa...

August 11, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China Jo-Jo Drugstores acquires Hangzhou Sanhao Grand Pharmacy

Singapore: China Jo-Jo Drugstores, China's healthcare retail service provider, has acquired Hangzhou Sanhao Grand Pharma...

December 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
F&S: Private hospital sector to grow in APAC

Singapore: About 180 million new hospital beds will be needed over the next decade to meet the rising healthcare demand ...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
PharmaEngine signs deal with Guangzhou BeBetter

Singapore: Taipei-based biopharmaceutical company PharmaEngine has signed a collaboration and research agreement with Gu...

January 16, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Amgen forms JV to launch cancer drug in China

Singapore: US-based Amgen is going to enter into a joint venture with Chinese pharmaceutical firm Zhejiang Beta Pharma, ...

May 21, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Guerbet to supply liver cancer imaging technology in China

Singapore: Gloal medical imaging firm, Guerbet (GBT), has partnered with Beijing Kyuan Pharmaceutical, drug distributors...

October 30, 2015 | Friday | News
Celsion launches cancer drug trial in China

Singapore: Celsion Corporation, a fully-integrated oncology company focused on the development of a portfolio of innovat...

March 8, 2016 | Tuesday | News
China SFDA passes Sihuan Pharma's Roxatidine

Singapore: Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings' roxatidine acetate hydrochloride for injection (Roxatidine), which is the com...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | News
MicuRx to initiate Ph II trial of antibiotics

Singapore: MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, US and China based biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation antibiotics, ...

February 27, 2015 | Friday | News
Medigus, Sinopharm enter endoscopic deal in China

Singapore: Medigus, a leading medical device company dedicated to the development of innovative endoscopic procedures a...

March 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Chinese medtech firm Concord's revenue rise 91%

Singapore: Concord Medical Services reported its unaudited consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended Ma...

May 22, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
China to set up a new vaccine tracking system

Singapore: According to a recent decision publicized by the Chinese government, wholesalers will no longer be allowed to...

April 27, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Orient EuroPharm launches oral uterine fibroids drug in Hong Kong, Taiwan

Singapore: Orient EuroPharma has launched new oral uterine fibroids drug, ulipristal acetate, developed by French compan...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Yisheng BioPharma gets positive result in rabies vaccine trial

Singapore: Yisheng Biopharma, China based biopharmaceutical company, has recieved positive topline results from Phase I ...

January 4, 2016 | Monday | News
Incyte inks oncology deal with China's Hengrui

Singapore: Incyte Corporation announced collaboration with China's Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine to co-develop and commercial...

September 7, 2015 | Monday | News
Shuwen Biotech and Hengrui Medicine enter into strategic partnership for Companion Diagnostics

Shanghai: Shuwen Biotech Co. Ltd. and Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd. announced today that they have entered into a c...

July 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China's Hualan Bio gets WHO nod for influenza vaccine

Singapore: China based Hualan Bio has recieved world health organization (WHO) pre-qualification approval for influenza ...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | News
Mindray acquires Dragonbio at $70 mn

Singapore: China's Mindray Medical has acquired all stakes of Wuhan Dragonbio Surgical Implant for a total cash consider...

July 20, 2015 | Monday | News
WuXi China facility gets Belgium GLP flag

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech's toxicology facility in Suzhou had received a statement of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) fr...

May 22, 2014 | Thursday | News
TPI provides updates on GMOL flagship product

Singapore: Tianyin Pharmaceutical (TPI), a pharmaceutical company that specializes in patented biopharmaceutical medicin...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | News
Perlong Medical rides on robust economic strength

Perlong Medical, also known as Nanjing Perlove Medical Equipment Company (for functioning in the overseas market), was e...

August 13, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
China Biologic reports 20.7% jump in sales in 2012

Singapore: China Biologic Products, a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, announce...

March 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
mHealth apps market to reach $20.7 bn by 2018: Report

Singapore: A recent report by Research and Markets estimates that global mHealth apps market will reach $6.6 billion in ...

October 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Linagliptin efficacy further established in specific patient populations

Seoul: Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly & Company have announced new data that reinforces the efficacy and tolerab...

November 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
WHO director general: H7N9 bird flu crisis contained

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) director general, Dr Margaret Chan, assured that the immediate threat fro...

June 7, 2013 | Friday | News
3SBio acquires Sirton pharmaceuticals

Singapore: China-based 3SBio recently announced the acquisition of Sirton pharmaceuticals from First Shangai Limited. 3S...

January 27, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Chinese cell culture market is fueled by bovine serum

Singapore: A new market research report by Percepta Associates revealed that growth of Chinese cell culture market is dr...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
China bans online medical diagnosis and treatments

Singapore: In a shocking move, the Chinese regulatory agency has issued a ban on online medical diagnosis which had rece...

April 13, 2015 | Monday | News
India, China focus on skilled manpower

At a time when multinational companies in bioscience industry are opting for job cuts, the lure of international markets...

May 25, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
China to build biotech research lab in Pakistan

Singapore: In a bid to promote the agricultural sector of Pakistan and to foster biotech research, Chinese officials sai...

July 13, 2015 | Monday | News
WuXi PharmaTech board member steps down

Singapore: Ms Ying Han, member of board of WuXi PharmaTech, has stepped down from the company. WuXi PharmaTech is China...

July 9, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Antimicrobial household products sell like hotcakes in APAC

Singapore: A new study from Mintel has revealed that Asia Pacific (APAC) is the global market leader in R&D of anti-...

November 5, 2012 | Monday | News
WuXi launches app to record oncology data

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, biotech outsourcing company, has launched a mobile version of OncoWuXi, an app to allow rese...

October 14, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Shanghai to get a new drug evaluation center

Singapore: In a bid to cut down on costs and time needed to evaluate and approve new medicines, the Chinese Food and Dru...

July 27, 2015 | Monday | News
True Diagnostics' thyroid kit receives CFDA nod

Singapore: True Diagnostics, a leading global point-of-care company, announced today that it has received the China FDA ...

July 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Chinese Ebola diagnostic kit receives WHO nod

Singapore: Shanghai's ZJ Biotech recently announced that its Ebola diagnostic kit has received the WHO nod. The kit was ...

June 4, 2015 | Thursday | News
Cuba, China to further boost biotech ties

Singapore: According to reports, Cuba and China are set to further expand cooperation in the field of biotechnology. Off...

June 29, 2015 | Monday | News
China firms Shuwen, Hengrui to build companion diagnostics

Singapore: China based diagnostic company, Shuwen Biotech, and pharmaceutical firm, Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine have partne...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Shanghai BravoBio wins BioSpectrum award for role in China vaccine industry

Chinese vaccine development companies are raising the bar to meet international standards. However, access to foreign ma...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
ResMed to acquire China based Curative Medical

Singapore: Australia based ResMed plans to acquire China and US based Curative Medical, provider of non-invasive ventila...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
There is a huge unmet need for affordable biologics in China'

Singapore: On May 10th 2016, JHL Biotech (JHL), opened the world's first KUBio biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility ...

July 12, 2016 | Tuesday | Influencers
PKUcare to distribute Devon Medical's products in China

Singapore: Devon Medical Products, a global medical device manufacturer and distributor, and PKUcare BeiYi Pharmaceutica...

May 18, 2012 | Friday | News
Activists challenge Gilead to give up Hep C drug patent

Singapore: Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), a team of lawyers and scientists campaigning for gl...

May 21, 2015 | Thursday | News
Now Chinese medicine maker accused of bribery

Singapore: The state-owned television network in China, the Chinese Central Television (CCTV) has alleged that bribery i...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | News
Beijing Eastern to give nutraceuticals at internet cafes

Singapore: China Internet Cafe Holdings (CICC) signed a distribution agreement with Beijing Eastern Union Biopharmaceuti...

February 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Samantha Su, Simranjit Singh: Finding skilled professionals is a challenge in Singapore

In the biomedical sector, the combination of latest technology and a strong business model is considered to be ideal. Th...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Aortic stent grafts market to grow at slow pace'

Singapore: The global aortic stent grafts market will increase in value from an estimated $1.2 billion in 2013 to just o...

October 17, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
UN praises China for achieving development goals

Singapore: As the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches by the end of 2015, China has released...

July 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Biosafe enters China stem cell market after SFDA approval

Singapore: Swiss company Biosafe, which is active in the field of design, manufacture and marketing of automated cell pr...

November 20, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Crystal Pharmatech, Partner Sciences join hands

Singapore: Crystal Pharmatech, a technology-driven solid-state research contract research organization (CRO) based China...

February 27, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Rainbow Bioscience looks to China for stem cell research

Singapore: In a continuing effort to expand its research into possible cures for neurological diseases gaining in preval...

October 9, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Top 20 APAC Country Analysis: China

Singapore: ʉۢ In a bid to deepen healthcare reforms and improve health infrastructure, China increased in heal...

June 17, 2015 | Wednesday | Influencers
Top 20 APAC Country Analysis: Singapore

Singapore:  Singapore's bioscience industry has slowed down Highlights • Singapore collaborated with Korea to ...

June 20, 2015 | Saturday | Analysis

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