China completes largest ever dry eye disease clinical trial

Zhaoke Ophthalmology has announced that the Phase III clinical trial of one of the company's core drug candidates, Cyclo...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong offers genome-editing strategy to fight Alzheimer’s Disease

An international research team led by scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has dev...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China approves GC Pharma's GreenGene F as a therapy to treat Haemophilia A

China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved GC Pharma's GreenGene F (Beroctocog alfa) [Recom...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
USFDA grants EUA to Hong Kong's INDICAID COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test

Hong Kong-based PHASE Scientific International has announced that its INDICAID™ COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test (...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
First rapid at-home diagnostic test for COVID-19 enters Asia

Hong Kong-based New World Development (NWD) and Prenetics have jointly announced the launch of the Circle HealthPod...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China discovers effective weight-loss method

A collaborative study between scientists at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and AntiCancer Inc. ...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
Chinese firms to advance drug development for hard-to-drug molecular targets

Hong Kong's Antengene Corporation Limited, a biopharmaceutical company focused on hematology and oncology drugs is ...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
Promega brings MSI companion diagnostic IVD kit for cancer patients in China

Shanghai Promega Biological Products and Shanghai Henlius Biotech, Inc. will develop and commercialize a microsatellite ...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
China identifies faecal bacterial markers for autism

The Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) reports a ground breaking discove...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
Poland and Peru receives Micomme medical help to fight the pandemic

Micomme has associated with Polish and Peruvian partners to accomplish the government centralized purchase of 1,600...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
WuXi STA acquires Bristol Myers Squibb's manufacturing facility in Switzerland

WuXi STA – a subsidiary of WuXi AppTec – has completed the acquisition of a drug product manufacturing facil...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Chinese startups accelerate innovative drugs R&D for novel coronavirus

China-based startups Insilico Medicine and Westlake Pharma have announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop inn...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
China approves anti-epileptic monotherapy for partial-onset seizures

Eisai Co., Ltd. has developed an anti-epileptic drug (AED) Fycompa (generic name: perampanel) which obtained t...

August 2, 2021 | Monday | News
Germany's Exyte Empowers the Biopharmaceutical Industry in China

Exyte has successfully completed the construction of the first ExyCell® facility in China, the CliniMACS C...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
Ping An-Shionogi enters China to set new benchmark for healthcare industry

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, has announced that Ping An-Shionogi Co., Ltd. (Ping An-Shionogi), a joi...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
China develops novel 'bacterial gene markers' test for early detection of colon cancer

The faecal immunochemical test (FIT) is commonly used to screen for colorectal cancer but it has low sensitivity (around...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
Switzerland's Tillotts Pharma AG launches ulcerative colitis drug in China

Tillotts Pharma AG (“Tillotts”), part of the Japanese Zeria Group, announced that the recent launch of Asaco...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
China uncovers neurodegeneration mechanism of Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the most common type of dementia, causes the death of neurons and leads to shrinking of ...

July 27, 2021 | Tuesday | News