GenSci launches global innovation hub in Shanghai to address gynaecology and paediatrics challenges

Changchun GeneScience Pharmaceutical (GenSci), a subsidiary of Changchun High-Tech Industries (Group), recently held a g...

December 26, 2023 | Tuesday | News
HKBU and China Resources Enterprise establish joint innovation centre on Smart Chinese Medicine

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and China Resources Research Institute of Science and Technology (CRRIST), a subsidi...

December 21, 2023 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca buys biotech startup Gracell for $1 B to further cell therapy ambition

British biophamaceutical firm AstraZeneca has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Gracell Biotechnologies Inc...

December 26, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong-based study lays focus on increased burden of laryngeal cancer in women

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) has collaborated with the Associati...

December 19, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan-based GHIT Fund invests $8.8 M in new drug development projects for malaria

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund, headquartered in Japan, has announced an investment of approximatel...

December 15, 2023 | Friday | News
China's MGI Tech takes cutting-edge DNA, Cell and Spatial Omics capabilities to Australia

MGI Australia, a subsidiary of China headquartered MGI Tech Co., a global leader in life science technology, has announc...

December 15, 2023 | Friday | News
China-based HaploX partners with Illumina to build benchtop sequencing system

US-based Illumina, a global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, and HaploX, a China-based high-t...

December 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
South African firm Aspen to acquire Sandoz's China business

South Africa based Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited, a global multinational specialty pharmaceutical company, has ...

December 11, 2023 | Monday | News
Leading global scientists launch Pandemic Research Alliance for concerted research & collaboration

World-renowned professors from six leading institutions in four countries have launched the Pandemic Research Allia...

December 8, 2023 | Friday | News
Singapore-China collaboration to explore allogeneic gamma delta T cell technology for cancer treatment

CytoMed Therapeutics, a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company focused on harnessing its proprietary technologies to ...

December 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Novartis invests $84.6 M in new radiopharmaceutical production base in China

Swiss firm Novartis has announced that it will invest in setting up a new radiopharmaceutical production base in China t...

December 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Akeso invests RMB 850 M to establish Shanghai Global R&D Centre

Akeso, a China-based biopharmaceutical company, has announced the establishment of the Akeso Global R&D Centre....

November 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
Research Centre for Assistive Technology opens in Hong Kong to support people with disabilities

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has inaugurated the Research Centre for Assistive Technology (RCATech) to s...

November 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Asep Medical signs Joint Venture agreement with Sansure Biotech in China

Canada-based Asep Medical Holdings Inc., through its subsidiary Sepset Biosciences Inc., has signed a definitive jo...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Experimental Drug Development Centre inks new collaboration with Chinese startup XtalPi

XtalPi, an innovative technology company powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, has signed a Memoran...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Acrometa to strengthen biopharma sector by developing co-working lab space biz in China

Acrometa Group, an established specialist engineering service provider in the field of controlled environments serving m...

November 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China-based Meihua International unveils AI-powered medical device logistics platform

Meihua International Medical Technologies Co. (MHUA), a manufacturer and provider of Class I, II and III disposable medi...

November 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Hong Kong Jockey Club Global Health Institute to bolster global preparedness for future pandemics

The University of Hong Kong (HKU), the University of Cambridge (UCAM), and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) hav...

November 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Jiahui Health develops international CAR-T treatment platform in China

Jiahui Health and IASO Biotechnology have announced a deepening of their strategic collaboration to jointly build a ...

November 16, 2023 | Thursday | News
Africa and China commit to deepen cooperation for public healthcare

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the China Centres for Disease Control and Prevent...

November 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
China gives regulatory nod to J&J's Monarch Platform for Bronchoscopy

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) MedTech has announced that the Monarch Platform and Monarch Bronchoscope have obtained r...

November 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
AstraZeneca inks billion dollar deal with Chinese startup Eccogene

China-based startup Eccogene has entered into an exclusive license agreement with UK-based pharmaceutical firm AstraZene...

November 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Startups in China use AI models to facilitate AAV gene therapy development

China-based startup Porton Advanced has announced the establishment of a strategic partnership with BioMap. Founded...

November 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
BioNTech inks $1 B oncology deal with Chinese startup Biotheus

China-based startup Biotheus Inc., a clinical-stage biotech company dedicated to the discovery and development of biolog...

November 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
XtalPi & CK Life Sciences to develop cancer molecular diagnostic models using AI in China

XtalPi, a leading global technology company in combining artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to drive the discover...

November 6, 2023 | Monday | News
China announces new collaboration on innovative drug development for infectious diseases

The Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Bio...

November 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong develops multimodal robot for post-stroke ankle, foot tele-rehabilitation

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has achieved another breakthrough in rehabilitation device development. The...

November 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim inks agreement with Chinese startup for oncology companion diagnostics

China-based startup Burning Rock Biotech and German pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim have signed the Master Serv...

October 31, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Merck strengthens oncology pipeline through strategic partnership with China's Hengrui Pharma

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced a strategic collaboration with China-based Jiangsu Hengru...

October 30, 2023 | Monday | News
GSK inks $85 M deal with China's Hansoh Pharma

British pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Chinese biopharmaceutical company Hansoh Pharma have entered in...

October 27, 2023 | Friday | News
Importance of building Australia-China biotech collaborations

China is Australia’s greatest two-way trading partner in products and services, making up close to one-third of th...

October 26, 2023 | Thursday | Opinion
Fapon forms strategic collaboration with Swiss biotechs for sepsis diagnosis in China

China-based life sciences company Fapon has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with two Swiss biotech compan...

October 27, 2023 | Friday | News
LianBio inks $350 M deal with Bristol Myers Squibb to provide cardiac drug in China & other Asian markets

LianBio, a biotechnology startup dedicated to bringing innovative medicines to patients in China and other major Asian m...

October 25, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong-based Cellomics ropes in Andy A. Liu as new Group CEO

Hong Kong-based startup Cellomics, a leader in liquid biopsy technology for cancer screening and precision diagnosis, ha...

October 24, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China's Mindray expands cardiac biomarker portfolio with cutting-edge assays

Mindray, a medical devices and solutions company based in China, has launched cardiac biomarkers of troponin I (hs-cTnI)...

October 24, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore furthers cooperation with China in traditional chinese medicine

Singapore will further its cooperation in several areas of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with the People’s Re...

October 23, 2023 | Monday | News
WuXi XDC and HKSTP promote development of bioconjugate drug industry in Hong Kong

WuXi XDC, a China-based Contract, Research, Development, Manufacturing Organisation (CRDMO) focused on the antibody drug...

October 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
PolyU and Rohto join forces to establish Centre of Research Excellence for eye care in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has partnered with Rohto, an eye care brand under Mentholatum, to establish...

October 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
GSK and Zhifei announce exclusive strategic vaccine partnership in China

British pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reached an exclusive agreement with Chongqing Zhifei Biologic...

October 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Chinese University of Hong Kong and Olympus sign MoU to develop novel medical technologies

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) and Japan-based Olympus Corporation...

October 16, 2023 | Monday | News
China to support localised vaccine production in Zimbabwe and Africa

Dr Deckster Tonny SAVADYE, CEO of Zimbabwe National Biotechnology Authority (NBA), and Dr Yang Yili, Internati...

October 11, 2023 | Wednesday | News
New antibiotic drug by researchers in Hong Kong receives approval for clinical trials in humans

A new antibiotic drug developed by a research team from the Department of Chemistry at The University of Hong Kong (HKU)...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Colombian National Cancer Institute inks MoU with China's BGI Genomics to combat cancer

China-based BGI Genomics, an integral part of BGI Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with t...

October 9, 2023 | Monday | News
Pfizer launches Rimegepant in Hong Kong, first market in Asia for migraine management

US-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer has announced the availability of Rimegepant in Hong Kong, the first market ...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Junshi Biosciences receives IND approval in China’s for DotBio's first multi-target oncology candidate

Singapore headquarterd biopharmaceutical company DotBio, excelling in antibody therapeutic modalities announced tha...

September 7, 2023 | Thursday | News
“The better the AI gets, the harder it is to ignore”

Insilico Medicine has garnered attention for its innovative utilisation of artificial intelligence (AI) in drug discover...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
WuXi unveils first vaccines CDMO site in China

WuXi Vaccines, a leading contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) focused on vaccine discovery, develo...

September 27, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Chinese University of Hong Kong to further enhance AI in medical education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) recently received a donation of HK$30 million from Li Ka-shing to support the...

September 29, 2023 | Friday | News
Everest Medicines signs $125.5 M deal with Kezar Life Sciences for Greater China and other Asian markets

Everest Medicines has entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Kezar Life Sciences to develop and commerc...

September 21, 2023 | Thursday | News
Chinese startup Canton Biologics completes 300+ M Yuan series C financing

China-based startup Canton Biologics recently completed a Series C financing round exceeding 300 million yuan. This roun...

September 19, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Cytiva expands scientific, digital, and training offering in China

Recognising the long-term needs of the biopharma industry in China and Asia-Pacific, global life sciences leader Cytiva ...

September 18, 2023 | Monday | News
Chinese startups Cure Genetics and Frametact ink $60 M deal to develop gene therapy for familial neurological diseases

China-based startup Cure Genetics and Frametact, founded by a molecular neuroscience research team at The...

September 16, 2023 | Saturday | News
Hong Kong unveils novel microelectrode for use in implantable bioelectronic devices

Electronic devices that can be attached to the skin or even implanted in the body will become more and more prevalent in...

September 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Clover Biopharma launches quadrivalent influenza vaccine in Mainland China

Clover Biopharmaceuticals has announced the launch of AdimFlu-S (QIS) in mainland China, where it is the only imported q...

September 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Genesis MedTech introduces China's first domestic brand of NPMA-approved antibacterial sutures

Singapore-based Genesis MedTech, a leading medical device company, has announced that its absorbable sutures with antiba...

September 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China-based startup Grit Biotechnology raises $60 M in Series B financing

Grit Biotechnology has announced the completion of a Series B financing round, raising over $60 million. The investment ...

September 11, 2023 | Monday | News
China approves Gloria Biosciences' drug for cervical cancer treatment

Guangzhou Gloria Biosciences (GloriaBio), a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on the discovery, develo...

September 8, 2023 | Friday | News
Eminence opens new GMP cell culture media manufacturing facility in China

Eminence Biotechnology (Suzhou) Co. has announced that its state-of-the-art facility for the commercial production of ce...

September 7, 2023 | Thursday | News
Bristol Myers Squibb inks $50 M deal to treat immune-mediated diseases in Asia

US-based startup Zenas BioPharma has entered into a license and collaboration agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb Compan...

September 6, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Startups in China join forces to tackle challenges in brain health

China-based startups Infinite Brain Technologies (IBT) and ATLATL Innovation Centre (ATLATL) have entered a Memorandum o...

September 6, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong publishes policy paper on university-industry collaboration for Chinese Medicine innovation

The Policy Research Centre for Innovation and Technology (PReCIT) and the Research Centre for Chinese Medicine Innovatio...

September 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Chinese startup HiRO acquires US-based CRO Courante Oncology, extends global footprint

China-based startup Harvest Integrated Research Organization (HiRO), an innovation global contract research organisation...

September 1, 2023 | Friday | News
Israel's Rapid Medical gains approval in China for world’s only adjustable thrombectomy device

Israel-based Rapid Medical, a leading developer of advanced neurovascular devices, has announced Chinese approval for it...

September 4, 2023 | Monday | News
Chinese startup Epigenic Therapeutics raises $32 M to strengthen work on epigenome medicine

Epigenic Therapeutics, a China-based biotechnology startup dedicated to developing next-generation gene modulation thera...

August 30, 2023 | Wednesday | News
How blood-based protein biomarkers enable early detection and intervention of Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a rapidly growing global public health concern, with an estimated 55 million patients worldw...

September 1, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
XtalPi Inc. announces new automation facility in Shanghai for drug discovery

XtalPi Inc. (XtalPi), a leading technology platform company renowned for melding physics-based computation, artificial i...

August 29, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong develops novel injectable hydrogel to revolutionise regenerative medicine

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the HKU-Shenzhen Hospital and the Princeton University, have collabo...

August 25, 2023 | Friday | News
China-based MGI partners with Korean startup NGeneBio to advance precision medicine

MGI, a China-based company committed to building core tools and technology to lead life scienc,e and South Korea based s...

August 23, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Mirxes inks new deals to scale adoption of early cancer detection solutions in APAC

Mirxes, a Singapore headquartered RNA technology company that is making diagnostic solutions for the early detection of ...

August 22, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Novo Holdings participates in $290 M strategic financing of China's Sangon Biotech

Novo Holdings, a leading international life science investor, has participated in a $290 million strategic financin...

August 21, 2023 | Monday | News
Global CRO Tigermed opens international headquarters in Hong Kong

Tigermed, a leading global Contract Research Organisation (CRO) providing integrated research and development solutions ...

August 18, 2023 | Friday | News
Hong Kong promotes development of advanced eye and vision research

The Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR) and Aier Eye Hospital Group (Aier) have announced a strategic collaboratio...

August 16, 2023 | Wednesday | News
China's T-Maximum Biotech selects GenScript CRISPR reagents to target high-grade gliomas

US-based GenScript Biotech, and China-based startup T-Maximum Biotech, a biotechnology company pioneering universal...

August 10, 2023 | Thursday | News
China-based startup Zhejiang Innoforce Pharma names new CEO

China-based startup Zhejiang Innoforce Pharmaceuticals Co., a contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO)...

August 3, 2023 | Thursday | News
AHI and Changlin announce partnership for transformative leap into future of healthcare in China

Australian firm Advanced Health Intelligence (AHI) has executed a binding exclusive, perpetual license with Shangha...

August 3, 2023 | Thursday | News
Indonesia inks MoUs with China for new collaborations in biotech & healthcare sectors

The Indonesia-China Healthcare and Biotech Investment Forum, co-hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Ch...

August 1, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong-based startup Immuno Cure BioTech raises $12M in series A round

Immuno Cure BioTech, a biotechnology group based in the Hong Kong Science Park, has closed the $12 million tranche in th...

July 31, 2023 | Monday | News
China-based Fapon announces global launch of Chemiluminescence Immunoassay system Shine i8000/9000

China headquartered life sciences company Fapon has announced the launch of its latest chemiluminescence immunoassa...

July 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Hong Kong advances stem cell therapy, improves awareness of regenerative medicine

Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) partner companies Hong Kong Regen MedTech Limited (HKRM) and ...

July 24, 2023 | Monday | News
WuXi STA launches first high potency sterile injectable manufacturing line at Wuxi City, China

WuXi STA, a global Contract Research, Development, and Manufacturing Organisation (CRDMO), has launched a first high pot...

July 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Israel to promote medical and healthcare based companies in Hong Kong

Hong Kong-based UMP Healthcare Innov Centre has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the I...

July 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Hong Kong- Columbia scientists to initiate Global Pandemic Research Alliance

Acclaimed US-based Columbia University virologist Professor David Ho and The University of Hong Kong (HKU) microbiologis...

July 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Chinese startups provide strong support for innovative ADC drug R&D

China-based biotech startups GeneQuantum and InxMed have signed a collaboration agreement. GeneQuantum has granted non-e...

July 17, 2023 | Monday | News
COVID-19 affects placenta, causing number of pregnancy complications: China study

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have unveiled ...

July 14, 2023 | Friday | News
Bayer extends partnership with Peking University to foster pharma innovation in China

German firm Bayer and Peking University (PKU) in China will collaborate to foster the translation of basic pharmaceutica...

July 13, 2023 | Thursday | News
Biosyngen to set up China-Singapore Translational Medicine Centre

The 13th Singapore Guangdong Collaboration Council was recently held in Singapore, where leaders from bot...

July 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
China Scholarship Council and University of Melbourne partner to fund PhD candidates until 2027

The University of Melbourne, Australia has announced a partnership renewal with the China Scholarship Council for ...

July 11, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China's Doer Biologics inks biotherapeutics agreement with BioNTech

Zhejiang Doer Biologics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical startup in China developing innovative biotherapeutics for m...

July 11, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Pentax Medical establishes manufacturing, R&D centre in China

Pentax Medical, a division of Hoya Group in Japan, has announced an establishment of endoscope manufacturing, R&...

July 10, 2023 | Monday | News
CPHI & PMEC China 2023 to launch international roadshow in Guangzhou

CPHI & PMEC China will open a special roadshow to be hosted at the PWTC Expo (4-6 September, 2023) in the city of Gu...

July 10, 2023 | Monday | News
GenScript doubles manufacturing capacity with new facility in China

US-based GenScript Biotech Corporation has expanded its cGMP manufacturing capacity for single guide or sgRNA ...

July 7, 2023 | Friday | News
Merck invests € 70 M to expand reagent manufacturing in China

Merck, a leading science and technology company, is expanding production capacity for highly-purified reagents at its si...

July 5, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Brii Biosciences acquires exclusive license for Hepatitis B vaccine in APAC region

US-based firm VBI Vaccines Inc. has announced the expansion of its hepatitis B (HBV) partnership with Brii Biosciences, ...

July 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
Enhancing Cell and Gene Therapy scalability in Asia using 3D manufacturing platforms with microcarrier technology

China-based CytoNiche Biotechnology, a pioneer in 3D dissolvable porous microcarriers, has opened the Center of Excellen...

July 3, 2023 | Monday | Opinion
CSPC Pharma partners with Pfizer for oral COVID-19 treatment in China

CSPC Pharmaceutical Group has signed a strategic partnership agreement with American pharma firm Pfizer to la...

July 3, 2023 | Monday | News
Immuno-oncology company Biosyngen opens new cell therapy GMP facility in Singapore

Biosyngen, an immuno-oncology company with technology targeting the unmet medical needs in solid tumour and lymphoma tre...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | Company results
WuXi Biologics partners with Pharmadule Morimatsu for Singapore CRDMO centre

Pharmadule Morimatsu, a subsidiary of Morimatsu International Holdings, and WuXi Biologics have officially entered ...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | News
New research centre for infectious diseases opens at Chinese University of Hong Kong

The S.H. Ho Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, a new research centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Prenetics launches $200 M JV for multi-cancer early detection in Hong Kong

Prenetics Global, a leading genomics-driven health sciences company in Hong Kong, and Prof. Dennis Lo have entered ...

June 27, 2023 | Tuesday | News
I-Mab announces appointment of Raj Kannan as new CEO

I-Mab, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with presence in China and the US, has announced the appointment of Ra...

June 23, 2023 | Friday | News

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