Sanofi, Novartis and GSK in race to buy Elder Pharma

Mumbai: Sanofi, Novartis and GSK, all multinational pharmaceutical firms, are looking to acquire domestic formulations b...

June 27, 2013 | Thursday | News
Medtronic MD: We are growing at a double digit rate

Medtronic was founded in 1949 in the US as a medical equipment repair show by Mr Earl Bakken and Mr Palmer Hermundslie. ...

January 25, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Why did mergers & acquisitions plunge in APAC?

The global bioscience industry, in 2012, reported 450 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions valued at $67 bill...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
India seeks to cancel Roche cancer patent

New Delhi: India's health ministry has asked for a cancellation of patent to Roche's breast cancer medicine Trastuzumab,...

July 29, 2013 | Monday | News
Contract manufacturing to reach $18 bn by 2017: Frost

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical contract manufacturing market earned revenue of $13.43 billion in 2012 and is estimated...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Indian top court to review drug pricing policy

New Delhi: India's Supreme Court has agreed to examine the new national pharmaceutical pricing policy framed by the cou...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Academia Sinica signs deal with Indian academy

Singapore: Academia Sinica of Taiwan and the Indian National Science Academy have signed an agreement on scientific coop...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Pacmachine awards for ACG packaging products

Mumbai: ACG Worldwide has won recognition for multiple products at the Pacmachine 2012 awards. Organised by the Indian...

January 21, 2013 | Monday | News
India continues to attract FDI in pharma

Indian pharmaceutical companies continue to receive approval from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), a natio...

June 25, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Waters to continue investing in India

Waters India, a fully owned subsidiary of Waters in the US, is celebrating its silver jubilee anniversary in India. Driv...

July 16, 2012 | Monday | Influencers
Groupe Athena, Eskayef Bangladesh join hands

Mumbai: Groupe Athena has entered into a multiyear contract with Eskayef Bangladesh, a leading Indian pharmaceutical man...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
CSIR, HP launch cloud-enabled eHealth initiative

New Delhi: India's premier research and development body, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Hew...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Eppendorf expands product range in India

Bangalore: Eppendorf expanded its tissue culture consumables (TCC) product range with launch of new Easypet 3, cell coun...

August 16, 2012 | Thursday | News
YM BioSciences appoints Kapil Dhingra to its board

Singapore: US-based YM BioSciences, a drug development company advancing hematology and cancer related products, appoint...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
India gets new guidelines for distribution practices of drugs

Bangalore: India is being touted to play a crucial role in the domain of biologics and biosimilars, as their presence be...

October 31, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Deadly outbreak of Swine flu grips India

Singapore: A deadly swine flu outbreak has gripped India, killing nearly 206 people in a single week, thus raising this ...

February 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
Cipla launches first rheumatic drug biosimilar in India

Mumbai: Cipla launched the first biosimilar of Etanercept in India under the brand name, Etacept, indicated for the trea...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Advinus gets $36 mn research funding from Takeda

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical and Advinus Therapeutics jointly announced that they would be initiating a three-year d...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Fujifilm, Dr Reddy's terminate generics JV

Hyderabad: Fujifilm and Dr Reddy's Laboratories have decided to terminate the memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enter...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Dr Reddy's launches generic fracture drug

Hyderabad: Dr Reddy's Laboratories (DRL) launched Zoledronic Acid Injection (4 mg/5 mL), a bioequivalent generic versio...

March 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
India budget 2013: A fillip for bioagri

Giving a boost to agriculture in India, the Finance Minister of the country, Mr P Chidamabaram, announced $4.9 billion (...

February 28, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Torrent to acquire Eleder Pharma at $325 mn

Singapore: India-based Torrent Pharmaceuticals plans to acquire Elder Pharmaceuticals for approximately $325 million. El...

December 16, 2013 | Monday | News
Sanofi is top bidder for Elder Pharma

Mumbai: Sanofi has emerged, as the highest bidder for all brands of Mumbai-based Elder Pharma, valuing the Indian firm a...

July 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioAsia 2013 kickstarts in Hyderabad, India

Bangalore: BioAsia, one of Asia's biggest technology and bio-business platform for biotechnology and life sciences, kick...

January 28, 2013 | Monday | News
Medical coding needs better documentation technology

In most US healthcare information technology (HIT) environments, the speed and accuracy of medical coding relies heavi...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Genome Life Sciences lab gets recognition in India

New Delhi: Chennai-based bioinformatics and biomarker company Genome Life Sciences (GLS) recently received recognition f...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
India's National Vaccine Policy: What next?

A year after India released its National Vaccine Policy, industry experts say it is time to draw up a plan to put the gu...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
KIRAN to encourage women scientists

Singapore: Announcing a special promotion scheme for women Scientists "KIRAN", the science and technology minister revea...

September 17, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Mr Steven Kaufman, SHL Group: 2013 will be an exciting year for drug delivery devices

Pharmaceutical companies in the region are starting to take more interest in biologics and biosimilars, and of course wi...

December 25, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Trivitron to tap critical life support solutions market

Bangalore: Trivitron Healthcare, the largest Indian multinational in medical technology, has shifted its focus to the cr...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Life after TB diagnostic ban in India?

Every year, an estimated 1.5 million patients are subjected to the diagnostic tests of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ind...

February 20, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
TGA gives Venus nod to export to Australia

New Delhi: Venus Remedies received Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administratio...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Lupin launches generic of Abbott's Tricor

Mumbai: Lupin's subsidiary Lupin Pharmaceuticals, US, launched its Fenofibrate tablets (48 mg and 145 mg strengths) in ...

November 21, 2012 | Wednesday | News
SII gets 500,000 SoloFlow needles from Telezon

Singapore: Telezon has dispatched the first of three shiments for the 500,000 SoloFlow commercial order to Serum Institu...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
FDA trains Indian market to boost exports

Singapore: As a measure, to improvise on Indian exports, the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has deputed three s...

May 20, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Aeras signs deal with GSK to develop TB vaccine

Singapore: Aeras, a not-for-profit fully integrated tuberculosis vaccine development organization, has signed an agreeme...

October 11, 2012 | Thursday | News
Ranbaxy to market Desvenlafaxine in the US

Bangalore: Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories, has entered into an in-licensing...

March 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
The latest in cancer immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is a very active area of cancer research wherein the treatment makes the immune system fight against cance...

August 28, 2012 | Tuesday | Opinion
Is India suffering from drug pipeline deficit?

It is estimated that about 40-to-60 percent of the Indian population still doesn't have access to vital life saving drug...

January 15, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Health awareness is fueling diagnostics in Asia

Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmac...

September 19, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
Krishna Sudheendra is group CFO of Opto Circuits

Mumbai: Opto Circuits, India, appointed Mr Krishna Sudheendra as the group chief financial officer. This was approved by...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Mylan Q2 2012 results out, grows 15%

Singapore: Mylan reported its financial results for the three and six months ending on June 30, 2012. The company's adju...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | Company results
BioAsia kicks off with partnerships and collaborations

Hyderabad: BioAsia, Asia's biggest technology and bio-business platform, today kick started with an inauguration ceremo...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Wockhardt recalls its drugs in the US

Singapore: Drug major Wockhardt has decided to recall over 8,000 bottles of anti-hypertension drug Metoprolol Succinate ...

June 27, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
FDA nod for Aurobindo generic migraine tablets

Bangalore: The US FDA granted final approval to India-based Aurobindo Pharma to manufacture and market rizatriptan benzo...

January 2, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Lupin, Aurobindo get approval for HIV drugs

Bangalore: Pharma majors Lupin and Aurobindo have announced that they have received approvals for their respective gener...

May 17, 2012 | Thursday | News
British Medical Journal to launch India awards

Bangalore: Open-access peer-reviewed medical journal BMJ, which was originally called the British Medical Journal until ...

February 25, 2013 | Monday | News
India to review its pharma FDI policies

New Delhi: The Indian government will be reviewing the foreign direct investment (FDI) policies for the pharmaceutical i...

July 22, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
India, US to collaborate on diabetes research

Bangalore: Further strengthening the US-India relations in Science and technology, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, union minister f...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | News
India to create a healthcare data collection system

Singapore: The Indian health minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan announced that a Management Information System (MIS) using IT to...

June 27, 2014 | Friday | News
Indian nutra market to grow to $2731 mn in 2016

Bangalore: The Indian nutraceutical market earned revenues of $1480 Million in 2011 and could grow to $2731 million in 2...

June 13, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Dr. Reddy's profit margin drops in Q2 FY13

Mumbai: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the quarter ended September ...

November 1, 2012 | Thursday | Company results
India, China top 2013's GMP failures: EMA

Singapore: In a bid to bring about transparency, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has released the public version of ...

January 9, 2014 | Thursday | News
India, Scotland join hands at Bangalore India Bio

Bangalore: Bangalore India Bio 2013, which is India's premier biotech forum renowned for calibrating the pulse of the bi...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Goose launches new solution for pharma firms

Bangalore: Goose, a provider of pharmaceutical business re-engineering solutions, has launched Goose Proofreader, a 21 C...

October 8, 2012 | Monday | News
Bharat Biotech launches world's first Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine

Singapore: Hyderabad based company, Bharat Biotech has launched the world's first typhoid vaccine that can be given to i...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Opto firm to supply defibrillators to Chicago transit system

Bangalore: Cardiac Science, part of the India-headquartered Opto Circuit group, will supply medical devices to Chicago's...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
India to focus on diagnostics

New Delhi: Despite tremendous opportunities in the disease screening, the areas such as personalized diagnostics have no...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
DCGI nod for Zydus Cadila diabetic dyslipidemeia drug

Singapore: Days after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approved Cadila Healthcare's new chemical entity, Lipa...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia bags $6.6 bn M&A deals in 2013

Singapore: The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region attracted around 101 M&A deals in pharma, medical, and biotech industry in...

March 28, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
DIPP wants review of India's pharma FDI policy

New Delhi: Concerned over spate of acquisitions of domestic pharma firms by multinationals, India's Department of Indust...

June 17, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Cambridge University signs major MoU in India

Bangalore: The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, will fund a new initiative for chemical biology a...

September 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Afro-Asian event focuses on personalized cancer care

Bangalore: The Afro-Asian Conference of Transitional Research in oncology (ACTRO) kicked-started in Bangalore today. The...

February 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Probi's Indian IBS study published in journal

Bangalore: Both the intensity and the frequency of the key symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) declined signific...

August 20, 2012 | Monday | News
India defers pharma barcoding until July 2014

New Delhi: The Government of India has increased the deadline for affixing barcodes on primary level packaging of pharma...

April 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Shasun to focus on global regulatory markets

Singapore: Shasun pharmaceuticals an Indian pharmaceutical company, aims to focus on formulations manufacturing and mark...

June 2, 2014 | Monday | News
Will Ranbaxy, Wockhardt incidents affect brand India?

When the Indian generic sector forayed into the global arena almost two decades back, the affordability of its treatment...

May 29, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
India boosting regulatory forces by double

Singapore: India has finally responded to the regular alerts issued by the top US drug regulator Food and Drug Administr...

May 23, 2014 | Friday | News
Sun Pharma acquires US-based Dusa

Bangalore: Sun Pharmaceutical has entered into a definitive agreement with Dusa Pharmaceuticals to acquire the latter, ...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
MK Bhan: Biotech is not a business, its a societal tool

Dr Maharaj Kishan Bhan, former secretary of India's nodal biotechnology agency, is an eminent pediatrician and clinical ...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Pharma companies focusing more on core areas'

Bangalore: On April 25, 2014, Biocon declared its FY14 performance results at its Bangalore campus, revealing 16 percent...

May 5, 2014 | Monday | Company results
Pharma sector witnesses dip in hiring

New Delhi: The recruitment levels for the pharma sector in India witnessed a decrease of five percent in October 12, whe...

November 13, 2012 | Tuesday | News
India may halt foreign investment in pharma

Singapore: As a resolution to the ongoing debate about whether to restrict foreign direct investment (FDI) in the existi...

September 20, 2013 | Friday | News
AIDS 2014 kicks off in Melbourne

Singapore: 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014), kicked off in Melbourne on July 20th, with a gathering of ove...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News
Pharma industry sets eyes on $25 bn exports by 2014

Hyderabad: Innovation and government support are key to reach the $25 billion export target set by the India government ...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Indian pharma to put up a grand show at Tokyo fair

Singapore: The Indian Department of Commerce is showcasing the achievement of the country's pharmaceutical sector at the...

July 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Planning Commission: India's target is $100 bn

Bangalore: India's Planning Commission has pointed out that the country's pharma industry will reach $100 billion by 20...

December 27, 2012 | Thursday | News
India declared free from bird flu

Singapore: India has declared itself free from the highly contagious avian influenza or bird flu, which could help in bo...

November 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Pharma will be key job creator in 2014: ASSOCHAM

Singapore: As per a recent report prepared by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry in India, the information...

December 31, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Fortis raising $13.5 million from StanChart PE

Singapore: Multispecialty hospital chain Fortis Healthcare is raising $13.5 million from Standard Chartered Private Equi...

July 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Takeshi Yura is AMRI Asia discovery VP

Singapore: Dr Takeshi Yura has been promoted by AMRI to the position of vice president of discovery and development serv...

February 26, 2013 | Tuesday | News
'India's disease pattern becoming similar to EU'

In the field of lifesciences, the Indo-European relationship is in line with European Union Delegation to India's global...

May 23, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
APAC stem cell therapy market to reach $972mn in 2018

Singapore: A new study by Reports and Reports predicted that the stem cell therapy market in Asia Pacific (APAC) will gr...

January 1, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Personal genomics to empower India

Personal genomics has the potential to revolutionize prognosis and treatment of diseases. Availability of a technology ...

June 20, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
ImmunoReagents appoints new distributors in Korea, India

Singapore: ImmunoReagents, a manufacturer of high quality polyclonal antibodies used by researchers, pharmaceutical and ...

October 15, 2012 | Monday | News
Ranbaxy deploys Cegedim compliance solutions

Singapore: Ranbaxy Laboratories has deployed US-based Cegedim Relationship Management's life science compliance solution...

January 4, 2013 | Friday | News
What ails vaccine manufacturing in India?

After the India government suspended the licenses of three private sector units on January 15, 2008, it drew a lot of fl...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Eli Lilly expanding diabetes portfolio in India

Singapore: With an aim to enhance its diabetes treatment portfolio in one of Asia's top markets, US based pharma major E...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News
World leader discuss health challenges at Qatar

Singapore: World leaders and policy makers have gathered in Doha, Qatar, to discuss innovative solutions to the most pre...

December 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Siro unveils new brand identity

Mumbai: Siro Clinpharm, a leading full service clinical research organization, unveiled its new brand identity. The new...

January 18, 2013 | Friday | News
BIRAC supports small biotechs in India

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a not-for-profit company of Government of India, has been se...

August 9, 2012 | Thursday | News
Nueclear Healthcare secures $4 million from NVP

Bangalore: Nueclear Healthcare (NHL), a radiology diagnostics company aiming to provide low cost nuclear imaging servic...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Pictor launches 5-in-1 infant testing kit in India

Singapore: More than 300,000 babies die within the first 24 hours of being born in India every year, according to the la...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
MEDIAN nominates Kapil Dhingra to its board

Bangalore: MEDIAN Technologies, a leading medical imaging software solutions developer, and a service provider for image...

November 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Novavax, CPL Biologicals, ICGEB join hands for malaria research

Bangalore: Novavax, CPL Biologicals (CPLB) and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | News
Another Ranbaxy plant faces US FDA ire

Singapore: The year 2014 is bringing back haunting memories of the way the year gone by had started for India's biggest ...

January 14, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Biocon gets positive results in insulin glargine study

Bangalore: Biocon has announced positive results from a phase I comparative study conducted in Germany of its biosimilar...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | News
GSK extends Genpact's finance contract by 5 years

Singapore: Genpact, a global leader in business process management and technology services, has been awarded a five-year...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Dr. Reddy's announces management changes

Hyderabad: Dr. Reddy's Laboratories announced that Mr Umang Vohra, who was the CFO of the company for the past four yea...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | News
India to help setup pharma hub in Sri Lanka

Bangalore: India is going to help Sri Lanka in setting up a proposed pharma hub, as part of its bilateral relationship w...

August 16, 2012 | Thursday | News

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