The National Agricultural Research Council (NARC) is Nepal's premier agriculture agency under the ministry of agricultur...
Singapore: Gerresheimer, one of the world's leading partners of the pharma and healthcare industry, has acquired the maj...
Singapore: Speaking to BioSpectrum, Mr Anand Shirur, CMD, South Asia &China, underscores ConvaTec's India mission an...
Singapore: Suven Life Sciences received three product patents, two from Eurasia and one from Canada for its new chemica...
Intramuscular and oral administrations have been the most widely used methods of delivery of vaccines so far. However, t...
Hyderabad: The first day of the BioAsia 2013, which started amidst much pomp and grandeur in the nawab city of Hyderabad...
The biopharma sector, which contributes about 60 percent of the Indian biotechnology industry, has been witnessing a com...
New Delhi: Daiichi Sankyo and Ranbaxy will work in synergy in Brazil to expand the business of both companies in the cou...
Bangalore: India has numerous healthcare problems, ranging from inadequate policy monitoring to the widespread lack of h...
Leveraging on the back of increasing sales of generic medicines, continued growth in chronic therapies and a greater pen...
Mumbai: Novartis has discovered that some of its employees are adopting unethical means to promote its diabetes drug Gal...
Bangalore: Indian company Trivitron Healthcare acquired Finland-based Ani Labsystem, a leader in the in vitro diagnosti...
Compared to the times of complete despair and loss of hope, there has been a remarkable scale up of treatment over the p...
In 2011, the number of mergers and acquisitions in the life sciences field of Asia Pacific witnessed a fall. An indepen...
The Nobel prize for Physiology to two stem cell research scientists in 2012 has firmly put the spotlight on this promisi...
Singapore: India-based Orchid Pharma entered into a strategic partnership with Europe-based Allecra Therapeutics to deve...
Singapore: Munich-based Wacker Group is restructuring its sales network for biotech products in Asia to enhance efficien...
Thanks to the Human Genome Project, scientists now have a set of tools that can be readily used to understand the comple...
Singapore: In a bid to expand its product portfolio, India's fourth largest domestic drug maker (in terms of revenue) is...
Singapore: ClinACE has collaborated with a stem cell banking and therapy company for conducting end-to-end clinical deve...
Bangalore: India-based premier biotechnology company, Biocon, has been ranked 19th in Science magazine's annual global '...
Bangalore: Improving access through innovation and research and development aimed at finding tomorrow's cures will conti...
Singapore: On January 10 2014, members of Association of Contract Research Organizations (ACRO INDIA) met and Mr D A Pra...
New Delhi: A month after the Indian government banned the popular anti-diabetes drug Pioglitazone, it is now planning to...
Boston: India has announced the much-awaited new and simple regulatory guidelines for similar biologics which have been...
Biologics manufacturers in Asia have to be more vigilant and give higher priority to product safety and product efficacy...
New Delhi: The global business intelligence firm, ResearchandMarket has filed their latest report with their projections...
Singapore: India's leading drug firm Strides Arcolab, with an agenda to foray into the semi-solid market in the US, has ...
A radical shift in how healthcare is delivered globally is underway. Game-changing developments in sensor technologies w...
Bangalore: Ranbaxy is going to exit its Bangalore-based vaccine manufacturing company, Biovel, according to Business Sta...
Bangalore: LifeCell International, India's largest and most accredited stem cell bank, secured an investment of $7 milli...
Any regulatory body's primary concern is to provide safe and efficacious medicine at an acceptable healthcare cost to ...
Hyderabad: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, together with its subsidiaries, announced the intended public offer to acquire the...
I completed my graduation and post graduation from the University of Mysore. My first job, after my post doctoral studie...
New Delhi: The project team for Eurartesim, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DHA-PQP), the first novel chemical entity d...
Chennai: Chennai-based global pharma major, Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals has exited its 50:50 manufacturing joi...
New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has cleared the clot-specific streptokinase (CSSK), a pioneering...
Mumbai: Cipla, one of India's leading pharmaceutical companies announced the appointment of Mr Frank Pieters as the head...
Bangalore: Intercell has partnered with Biological E to launch JEEV, a vaccine designed to protect children and adults ...
The pioneering research of Nobel Laureates Sir John Gurdon and Dr Shinya Yamanaka on reprogramming adult stem cells has ...
Microbial geneticist Dr Gyanu Lamichhane of the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research is one of the foremost au...
India's drug regulator, the Central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), had in 2012 received World Health Organi...
Keeping health security of the country in mind and the success of the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), India has ...
Singapore: Global pharmaceutical giants Mylan and Teva are planning to launch manufacturing units in the city of Indore,...
New Delhi: The state government of Punjab in Pakistan has instructed pharmaceutical companies to not use raw materials t...
Hyderabad: The state undertaking of Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Development, India, signed a memorandum of ...
Singapore: India pharmaceutical companies have yet again emerged as the biggest overseas sources of medicines sold in th...
Singapore: Indian pharmaceutical company Ideal Cures will launch its newly developed delayed release delivery system, In...
Singapore: After facing a wave of troubles from the US drug regulatory body through the last 12 months, leading Indian d...
Singapore: In what was being dubbed to be one of the biggest consolidation attempt in the Indian pharmaceutical industry...
New Delhi: One year after the historic United Nations high level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), Medtronic...
New Delhi: India's Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) has revoked a patent granted in India to F Hoffmann-La R...
Pune-based Jehangir Clinical Development Center (JCDC) was formed in 2006 to focus on clinical trials. Since then, the c...
New Delhi: Aiming at becoming one of the global manufacturing hubs, besides being a large healthcare market, India has i...
Bangalore: The flagship biotech event of the State of Karnataka, India - Bangalore India BIO, will be holding its 13th e...
The Asia Pacific region, barring the developed nations of Australia and Singapore, needs "critical mass" where interdepe...
Mumbai: Univar, a leading global chemical distributor, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with India-...
Singapore: After hitting headlines for its $3.2 billion acquisition of Ranbaxy for months, leading Indian drug maker Sun...
Singapore: Frost & Sullivan has announced that its 6th Annual India Healthcare Excellence Awards 2014 will be held o...
Bangalore: Agila Specialties, a wholly owned subsidiary of Strides Arcolab, has received ANDA approval for Zoledronic A...
Singapore: The pharmaceuticals industry in the Asia Pacific is thriving on the back of escalating population and increa...
The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...
Bangalore: The Custom Pharmaceutical Services (CPS) business of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories announced expansion in the are...
Mumbai: Piramal's Healthcare is going to invest $2.5 million at its FDA approved antibody drug conjugate (ADC) manufactu...
New Delhi: Imagine if you come to know that the pill you just popped down to get relief from a bad ailment is a fake. Th...
Asia's two leading economies, India and China are actively working on new strategies to attract money into the bioscienc...
Singapore: Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) recently published an original infographic and supporting arti...
This edition of the magazine captures the leading developments, hits, and misses of 2013 and also hints at the trends th...
Bangalore: Biocon has entered into an option agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb for Biocon's IN-105, a prandial oral in...
As part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Fisher Scientific India has been a channel partner for not just the parent company'...
Bangalore: The 10th edition of BioAsia, the flagship annual biotech event of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, will be...
Vaccines are considered among the most important medical inventions made by man. Indian vaccine manufacturers, who are w...
Singapore: New Delhi-based Curadev Pharma has successfully advanced its oncology program to the next stage with its clin...
New Delhi: India-based drugmaker Panacea Biotec said it is preparing to resume supplies of its pentavalent vaccine Easyf...
Dr Ingeborg Hochmair is the founder and CEO of worldwide hearing implant leader MED-EL. In September 2013, Dr Ingeborg H...
Bt cotton has been a very successful story in Indian agricultural history. The adoption rate of the crop has been very r...
New Delhi: In a major relief to India's agri-biotechnology industry, the Supreme Court of India ruled out any possibilit...
Mumbai: Indian drugmaker Cipla has postponed its plans to acquire majority stakes in South African firm Medpro on accoun...
Singapore: India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) will be taking up 32 foreign investment proposals on August...
In March 2012, the termination of a multi-million dollar deal between India's top biotechnology company Biocon and globa...
Singapore: Indian Biotechnology major Biocon and US generic drug maker Mylan, who have been selling their jointly develo...
The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...
Singapore: Apollo's Medical e-learning initiative, Medvarsity, has tied up with University of New South Wales (UNSW),to ...
Bangalore: Merck Millipore India, a division of Merck, Germany, has entered into a partnership with Toshvin Analytical i...
Singapore: Claiming that the drugs supplied by at least 45 Indian pharmaceutical companies are not of standard quality (...
Mumbai: Indian drug giant Lupin Pharma has begun trial run at Mihan that it expects to become fully functional in two ye...
Given that India pharma market currently ranks 13th by value and fourth by volume globally, and it has the maximum numbe...
Big pharma companies are gearing up to combat the shortage of injectables in the US through acquiring companies with app...
Singapore: The seventh India-Russia Trade and Investment Forum will be focusing on pharmaceuticals, tourism and services...
The pharmaceutical market in India is highly competitive because of affordable medicine with low-priced, locally-produce...
Mumbai: Dr Gyanendra Shukla has been appointed as the managing director of Monsanto India effective March 1, 2013. He wi...
Singapore: Japan's largest research organization, Riken has launched two virtual Joint Research Centers with India's pre...
Countries in Asia are pushing policies to attract investments. India has taken many steps to encourage investments and t...
Singapore: In a bid to derive a way to negotiate and bring down the prices of patented drugs in India, the government ha...
Bangalore: The recently launched bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS), which is also known as disappearing stent, is be...
Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo and Ranbaxy Laboratories will integrate their business operations in Thailand, in order to lev...
New Delhi: The facilities of the Indian generics major Ranbaxy have come under the scanner of the country's health minis...
