Heartbeat Experts expands in BRICK

Singapore: Heartbeat Experts, the global leader in stakeholder management solutions for the life sciences industry, ann...

December 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Kotaro Yoshida: China, Japan are the new M&A hot spots

Compared to 2011, global pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors suffered a setback in the number of mergers and acquis...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Taiwan, China firms to develop novel cancer molecule

Singapore: Taiwan-based GNT Biotech has got exclusive license from China-based Shenzhen Chipscreen Biosciences for the d...

October 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Dyax, CVie to commercialize Kalbitor in China, HK

Singapore: Dyax and CVie Therapeutics, a subsidiary of Lee's Pharmaceutical Holdings, announced a strategic partnership...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | News
China: Is this an end to foreign monopoly?

Singapore: With 1.3 billion population and a burgeoning middle class, China has witnessed an unprecedented increase in ...

March 4, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis
Amgen to open R&D units in Chinese univ

Singapore: Amgen and ShanghaiTech University, China, entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to form a strategi...

September 26, 2013 | Thursday | News
China Health Resource expands its 'Go Global Initiative'

Singapore: China Health Resource (CHRI) is expanding the company's Go Global Initiative to include the migraine market a...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | News
M&A fuels the Medtech sector

Singapore: Mergers and acquisitions in the medical device sector in 2014 touched the peak in terms of value when medtec...

March 6, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
UK's Rex Bionics enters China market

Singapore: London-based Rex Bionics has inked a partnership agreement with Chinese investment and trading company MAAB G...

July 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China's Sinovac progresses to launch new vaccines

Singapore: China's biopharmaceutical firm, Sinovac Biotech, is progressing on its pipeline vaccines and expects to bring...

March 18, 2015 | Wednesday | News
No proof of human-to-human H7N9 infection'

Singapore: Amid fears of H7N9 turning into a pandemic in China with a new bout of cases, the country's National Health a...

February 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
After GSK, its now Pfizer facing China's corruption crackdown

Singapore: US-based drug major Pfizer has been slapped with a fine of $15,570 for paying "promotion fees" to four major ...

August 31, 2015 | Monday | News
China Biologic donates 1,000 bottles of Tetanus to earthquake victims

Singapore: China Biologic Products donated 1,000 bottles of Tetanus immunoglobulin through its Guizhou Taibang subsidia...

September 11, 2012 | Tuesday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Asian CROs optimistic in a gloomy pharma market

Over the past four years, BioSpectrum Asia in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR) has been capturing the key br...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
DIA executive director calls it quits

Singapore: Executive director of DIA, Mr Paul Pomerantz is quitting his position effective March 3, 2013, to assume the ...

December 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Pfizer, Hisun launch generics joint venture in China

Singapore: Pfizer and China's Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceuticals, a leading Chinese pharmaceutical company, announced the la...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
China quarantines parts of Yemen

Singapore: Parts of northwestern city of Yemen have been quarantined due to a bubonic plague scare, sparked by the death...

July 23, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Finally, BGI-Shenzhen acquires Complete Genomics

Singapore: BGI-Shenzhen (BGI), a leading international genomics organization based in Shenzhen, China, announced that th...

March 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China to up healthcare spending to $1 trillion

Singapore: Healthcare spending in China is going to increase substantially in the comming years, according to various in...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Eisai gets direct presence in China

Singapore: Japan's pharmaceutical company, Eisai, has established its presence in China by setting up a holding firm, Ei...

December 3, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Tianyin Pharmaceutical gets GMP renewal status

Singapore: China's Tianyin Pharmaceutical, a pharmaceutical company that specializes in patented biopharmaceutical, mode...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
China OTC drug market grows 15% to $32 bn

Singapore: The Chinese over-the-counter (OTC) medicines market is vigorously growing at 15 percent as compared to the p...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
How scandals have affected GSK sales in China?

Singapore: British drug major GlaxoSmithKline that has been tangled in a major bribery and corruption scandal in China, ...

September 25, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Top 20 APAC Country Analysis: India

Singapore:  India generated the nearly one-fourth of the global revenue of the lifescience market in APAC.  Highlig...

June 18, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Nuokang Bio-Pharmaceutical appoints new CFO

Singapore: China Nuokang Bio-Pharmaceutical, a leading China-based biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, d...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
Top 20 APAC Country Analysis: Australia

Singapore: Australia was the third largest contributor to the lifescience market in the region Highlights • An ...

June 19, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
Luqa, Stratpharma extend collaboration in China

Singapore: Stratpharma and Luqa Pharmaceuticals signed a deal encompassing an expanded range of innovative medical devic...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
Parexel acquires regulatory info firm Liquent

Singapore: Parexel International has acquired all of the outstanding equity securities of Liquent, a leading global prov...

December 28, 2012 | Friday | News
China Resources Sanjiu looks ahead at acquisitions for growth

To enhance its market opportunities and drive business growth, China Resources Sanjiu Medical & Pharmaceutical is ...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
CASiGEN Pharma established in China for diabetes drugs

Singapore: US-based Ventac Partners and the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), Chinese Academy of Sci...

May 21, 2012 | Monday | News
Chinese scientists grow neurons from urine

Singapore: Chinese scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health have generated neural progenitor cel...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
DuPont harvests GM corn in China

Singapore: Amid regulatory hurdles, DuPont has successfully harvested its first genetically modified test crops of corn ...

November 19, 2014 | Wednesday | News
JHL Biotech opens biosimilars manufacturing facility in China

Singapore: JHL Biotech (JHL), opened the world's first KUBio biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility with single-use bi...

May 10, 2016 | Tuesday | News
China develops Ebola diagnostic tests

Singapore: The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) said in a statement that top health authorities had approved th...

December 2, 2014 | Tuesday | News
BMS releases $3.5 mn fund for Hep B&C in India, China

Singapore: Bristol-Myers-Squibb Foundation has released nine new grants totaling to around $3.5 million towards hepatiti...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
Traditional Chinese Medicine eats into big pharma market

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a more than 3,000-year-old medicinal practice whose doctrines are rooted in ancien...

August 2, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
Clinical trial firm BioClinica expands in China

Singapore: BioClinica, a global provider of clinical trial management services, has merged with CoreLab Partners as an i...

June 20, 2013 | Thursday | News
Latanoprost improves glucose, lipid disorder in diabetes

Singapore: Researchers from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, have discovered that Latan...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Echo Therapeutics collaborates with MTIA

Singapore: Echo therapeutics and Medical Technologies Innovation Asia (MTIA) have announced the re-establishment of thei...

January 22, 2015 | Thursday | News
Novotech expands in Asia

Singapore: Australia based Novotech has strengthened its Hong Kong operation with expansion of its manpower base. The c...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Bristol- Meyers Squibb to shed 1000 jobs in China

Singapore: If a Chinese media reports are to be believed, the US drug giant Bristol- Meyers Squibb(BMS) is all set to ax...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
Venezuela, China to collaborate on health projects

Singapore: In collaboration with China, the Venezuela government recently announced plans to establish an organization f...

February 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
China Biologic's subsidiary signs plasma sourcing deal

Singapore: Guizhou Taibang Biological Products, subsidiary of China Biologic Product, has collaborated  with Xinjiang D...

September 4, 2015 | Friday | News
Unclear regulations dampen investment charm

Singapore: Asian companies continued to attract global pharma and biotech giants to invest in regional markets to establ...

April 1, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Chinese health official handed 19 yr sentence

Singapore: According to a Xinhua news agency, a former deputy health commission chief of China Dr Huang Fengping, has be...

February 18, 2015 | Wednesday | News
China's industrial zones and pharma progress

Over the last thirty years, China's growth has been fuelled in part by the rapid and dynamic development of its industri...

January 24, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
United Labs boosts production to meet high demand

The global life science industry has been facing a financial crunch and The United Laboratories too has felt the jolt....

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Favorable ruling for OrbusNeich in patent case

Singapore: OrbusNeich Medical, a coronary stent company headquartered in Hong Kong, received a favorable ruling from the...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong strives to draw innovation from overseas

Singapore: Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC) is extending support and resources to technolog...

April 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Medtronic, Chengdu sign insulin pump manufacturing agreement

Singapore: Medtronic has formed a partnership with the Chengdu municipal government to manufacture and deploy advanced d...

January 14, 2016 | Thursday | News
New bird flu virus develops resistance to drugs

Singapore: Doctors and researchers at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, China, have made a worrying revelation...

June 3, 2013 | Monday | News
Insightec offers uterine fibroids cure in China

Singapore: Insightec announced its first centers in China offering ExAblate, which is a noninvasive treatment for uterin...

June 4, 2014 | Wednesday | News
China Cord Blood to advance stem cell service with US tie-up

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC) and US-based Cord Blood Registry, stem cell companies, have collaborated ...

February 2, 2015 | Monday | News
Recent 6 'Big Pharma' frauds

Each year big pharma giants end up spending billions of dollars in paying for fraud, misrepresentation of data and other...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Cephasonics, Excelpoint sign ultrasound sales deal

Singapore: Cephasonics signed a strategic distribution agreement with Excelpoint Systems, which is effective immediatel...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong to host international TCM exhibition, conference

Singapore: Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Modernized Chinese Medicine International Association (MCMIA ...

August 12, 2013 | Monday | News
Marken opens new Shanghai office

‎Singapore: Marken, a global clinical supply chain solutions provider, has expanded its presence in Shanghai to pr...

April 4, 2015 | Saturday | News
Chinese planning agency to probe pharma prices

Singapore: China's primary economic planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is in the pro...

July 5, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
BioAsia 2014: Innovation, collaboration identified as success keys

Hyderabad: With emphasis on cutting-edge innovations this year, BioAsia 2014 under the theme 'Innovate. Evolve.' kick-st...

March 5, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
Soon, human head transplants could be a reality too!

Singapore: A Chinese doctor from Harbin Medical University made headlines by successfully performing a head transplant s...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | News
China medical giant launches CT scanner

Singapore: Neusoft Medical Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Neusoft Corporation has globally introduced NeuViz 64 m...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | News
WuXi Biologics to build world's largest biologics facility

Singapore: Wuxi Biologics, a wholly owned subsidiary of China-based WuXi PharmaTech, recently announced that it has begu...

May 5, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China eco-crimes unit gives updates on GSK sex scandal

Singapore: The economic crime investigation unit of China's Ministry of Public Security has now released a statement reg...

November 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
URMC launches new heart device trial in Asia

Singapore: Cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, US, are launching a new study in an effort to im...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Chinese drugmaker to build a new facility for insulin products

Singapore: Chinese drugmaker Tongua Dongbao Pharmaceutical recently announced plans to invest nearly $60 million to buil...

April 10, 2015 | Friday | News
APAC coronary stent sector to touch $1.5 bn in 2015

Singapore: Asia-Pacific, including Japan, China, India, New Zealand, South Korea and Australia, is the fastest growing r...

April 9, 2015 | Thursday | Analysis
Irvine Pharma to set up manufacturing facility in China

Singapore: US based Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, a contract manufacturing service provider, plans to open a new facil...

November 4, 2014 | Tuesday | News
GSK officials under criminal investigation in China

Singapore: The Chinese police who have been investigating allegations of bribery against senior executives working at UK...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
Elli Lilly inks a pact with China's Innovent Biologics

Singapore: Elli Lilly has inked a 10-year pact with China's Innovent Biologics to develop and commercialize three new ca...

March 23, 2015 | Monday | News
Abivax initiates hepB vaccine trial in Asia

Singapore: ABIVAX, a clinical stage biotech company developing and commercialising anti-viral compounds and human vaccin...

March 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
US Pharmacopeial convention expands in China

Singapore: US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), a nonprofit global health organization that creates and promotes quality s...

January 13, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
WuXi PharmaTech partners with Foundation Medicine

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech has collaborated with US based Foundation Medicine, a molecular information company, for prov...

October 23, 2014 | Thursday | News
China's Adagene raises $28 million

Singapore: Adagene, China based antibody discovery and development company, has raised USD28 million Series B financing ...

February 1, 2016 | Monday | News
Merck, China firm to co-develop DNA repair drug

‎Singapore: Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, has signed a global licensing, co-development, ...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
MNCs on medtech growth trail

Industry forecasts by market analysts state that 80 percent of the multinational companies expect to gain a good share i...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Biochips market to be worth $11.4 bn by 2018

Singapore: A recent report released by RnRMarketResearch.com has analyzed the Global Biochips Industry and forecasted th...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Pharma must play by anti-corruption rules now

In August, Eli Lilly emerged as the fifth company embroiled in the China bribery scandal, joining the list with GSK, Nov...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Pneumonia kills a 5-year-old child every 30 secs: UN

Singapore: Pneumonia remains the single biggest killer of children under the age of five globally, claiming the lives of...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Dehaier Medical Systems initiates business restructure

Singapore: China based Dehaier Medical Systems has initiated corporate and business restructuring to concentrate the co...

February 10, 2016 | Wednesday | Company results
GSK fires Chinese R&D head for publishing fraud data in Nature

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has fired the head of its Chinese R&D unit, Dr Jingwu Zhang, after it was found in ...

June 14, 2013 | Friday | News
Amoy Diagnostics gets nod for gene detection kit in China

Singapore: Amoy Diagnostics' EML4-ALK Fusion Gene Detection Kit has received market approval from China's State Food an...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
MERS kills two in South Korea

Singapore: In the lastest outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), two people in South Korea have died ...

June 2, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Pharmaceutical packaging industry to evolve in Asia: Analysis

Singapore: According to a study by Frost & Sullivan, United States, European Union, and Japan account for more than ...

March 4, 2015 | Wednesday | Analysis
WuXi acquires US based CRO

Singapore: Pharma and biotech R&D service provider, WuXi PharmaTech, has acquired XenoBiotic Laboratories, a contrac...

October 2, 2014 | Thursday | News
GSK likely to escape China charges: Reuters

Singapore: A recent Reuters report has specified that British drug major GlaxoSmithKline, which is facing bribery, corru...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China Pharma Q3 2014 revenue dips by 31%

Singapore: China Pharma Holdings' third quarter revenue has slided down by over 31 percent touching $5.5 million from $8...

November 17, 2014 | Monday | Company results
Swiss firm Biosafe expands in China

Singapore: Swiss firm Biosafe, an automated cell processing system manufacturer, has strengthend its presence in China i...

November 17, 2014 | Monday | News
Phagelux acquires polymer delivery systems

Singapore: China based Phagelux, an anti-bacterial company developing phage-based solutions, has acquired biodegradable ...

December 24, 2014 | Wednesday | News
China's Innovent raises $100 mn

Singapore: China biotech firm, Innovent Biologics, has raised $100 million in Series C financing led by Legend Capital, ...

January 31, 2015 | Saturday | News
China and Australia grant patent to NBB nicotine biosynthesis gene

Singapore: 22nd Century Group, a company that has developed pioneering technology for tobacco harm reduction and smoking...

July 10, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Hong Kong gets vigil on H7N9 case

Singapore: Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) has confirmed human case of a...

December 31, 2014 | Wednesday | News
China Biologic subisdiary gets GMP tag

Singapore: Plasma-based biopharmaceutical company, China Biologic Products' subsidiary firm, Shandong Taibang Biological...

December 24, 2014 | Wednesday | News
WHO urges nations to act on hepatitis threat

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to act against the five hepatitis viruses that can...

July 26, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Immuron to distribute Travelan in China

Singapore: Immuron has inked a pact with a Chinese distributor, Linker Holdings, to sell its Travelan OTC preventive tre...

February 17, 2015 | Tuesday | News
GSK scandal: Shanghai health official suspended

Singapore: Mr Huang Fengping, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning has re...

December 10, 2013 | Tuesday | News
China develops learning app for autistic children

Singapore: An android app developed for children with autism, supported by UNICEF's Global Innovation Centre in collabor...

May 8, 2015 | Friday | News
Tianyin TCM raw material processing plant is ready

‎Singapore: Tianyin Pharmaceutical, a pharmaceutical company that specializes in patented biopharmaceutical, moder...

May 2, 2013 | Thursday | News
NIH bans funding for gene editing of human embryos

Singapore: Earlier last month, a group of researchers from China's Sun Yat-Sen University made headlines when they claim...

May 8, 2015 | Friday | News
Tobacco-use study reveals frightening data

Singapore: The world's largest tobacco use survey, titled 'The Global Adult Tobacco Survey', which has been published in...

August 17, 2012 | Friday | News
Foreign drugmakers report drop in Chinese sales

Singapore: The crackdown on corruption and strict regulations by the Chinese government have resulted in a slow down, wi...

August 10, 2015 | Monday | News

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