Merck and IFEZ ink MoU for expanding investment

Merck and the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish the German f...

January 23, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Seoul tops the list of most clinical trials conducted in a city

Seoul ranks first in the world in number of clinical trials per city. It is meaningful that the city shows a significant...

January 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Daewoong Pharmaceuticals gets CFDA nod to start Nabota clinical trials in China

Korea’s Daewoong Pharmaceutical recently announced that it has received China’s regulatory nod for running c...

January 12, 2018 | Friday | News
KPBMA seeks expanded govt support and funding in 2018

A news report by Korea’s leading portal The Korean Herald stated that South Korea’s representative biopharma...

January 1, 2018 | Monday | News
Korean Ministry awards UNIST Professor

Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) has awarded Professor Jeong Beom Kim, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National...

January 1, 2018 | Monday | News
KCDC designates India as disease prone

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has highlighted that from next year, India and Syria will be...

December 29, 2017 | Friday | News
EDGC to expand into Asian market

Korea based genetic analysis company, Eone-Diagnomics Genome Center (EDGC), is planning to expand its business into East...

December 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Japan is the largest importer of Korean drugs

According to the 2017 pharmaceutical industry data and statistics information released by the Korea Pharmaceutical and B...

December 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Samsung Medical Centre to focus on liver cancer treatment

Leading academic medical centre in Seoul, Republic of Korea, Samsung Medical Center (SMC) is collaborating with scientis...

December 14, 2017 | Thursday | News
Korea to ease regulations on biotech

The South Korean government is planning to ease regulations on embryonic stem cell research and gene therapy product dev...

December 11, 2017 | Monday | News
Biogen Korea ropes in new CEO

The Korean branch of the American multinational biotech Biogen, has selected Hwang Se-eun as its new CEO. Hwang is expec...

November 27, 2017 | Monday | News
Uzbek MoH collaborates with S Korean clinics

A number of meetings have been taking place with the heads of the South Korean leading clinics at the Uzbek Health Minis...

November 23, 2017 | Thursday | News
Korea's Dongsung Pharmaceuticals opens a new cancer research center in Seoul

In a bid to further strengthen its pipeline of cancer treatments, Korea’s Dongsung Pharmaceuticals has recently op...

November 14, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Korean researchers use acupuncture for cancer treatment

Researchers at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea are using nanotechnology-enhanced ...

November 9, 2017 | Thursday | News
UNIST Professor receives Young Investigator award

Professor Chunghun Lim in the School of Life Sciences at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) ...

November 2, 2017 | Thursday | News
Bio Hub at Seoul to support health startups

The Seoul Metropolitan Government recently held a ceremony celebrating the opening of the first main building in the Seo...

October 31, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Researchers in Korea develop blood test technique for Alzheimer’s

A group of researchers at the Seoul National University (SNU) in South Korea have developed a new technique for a series...

October 27, 2017 | Friday | News
Korea to get an AI healthcare system soon

Samsung Medical Center (SMC) is collaborating with Microsoft Korea to build a Korean artificial intelligence (AI) precis...

October 24, 2017 | Tuesday | News
New applications laboratory opens in South Korea

Avantor has recently opened a new life sciences research and applications laboratory in the GwangGyo district, Suwon, So...

October 17, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Korea's Boryung Pharmaceuticals to launch two antihypertensive drugs in SE Asia

After launching Karnab, South Korean drug major, Boryung Pharmaceuticals has joined hands again with Zuellig Pharma to&n...

October 12, 2017 | Thursday | News
Korean scientists invent hydrogel to combat rheumatoid arthritis

Scientists at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea have invented a hydrogel to fight rheumatoid arthritis and ...

October 12, 2017 | Thursday | News
Scientists in Korea develop sensor for detecting amphetamines

Researchers in Korea have developed a wireless sensor and a smartphone app that can detect the presence of amphetamine i...

October 6, 2017 | Friday | News
Korea to inject 500 billion won into pharma sector; aims to launch 100 new drugs by 2026

 In  a bid to place Korea on the biotech global map, the Korean government announced plans to will inject 500 ...

September 30, 2017 | Saturday | News
Amid escalating tensions about North Korea, Celltrion plans to invest abroad

According to a report by Reuters, South Korea’s biosimilar giant Celltrion has said that it would drop plans to bu...

September 30, 2017 | Saturday | News
Korean scientists use bilirubin nanoparticles for cancer therapy

A team of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed combined photoacoustic imaging...

September 27, 2017 | Wednesday | News
CPhI Korea reveals growth of domestic pharma companies in South Korea

CPhI Korea, organized by UBM, closed its doors in Seoul that attracted 4,300 attendees and 147 exhibitors. During the ev...

September 25, 2017 | Monday | News
Alere and FIND introduce new diagnostic test for sleeping sickness

US-based diagnostics firm Alere’s subsidiary Standard Diagnostics in the Republic of Korea and global nonprofit or...

September 19, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Korean companies mull on using AI for drug discovery

In a bid to speed up drug discovery process and boost R&D efforts, Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio-pharma Manufacturers...

September 1, 2017 | Friday | News
Top Korean pharma companies increase their R&D spending in H1

A recent industry data showed that, major South Korean pharmaceutical companies have increased their spending on researc...

August 16, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Korean Pharma Association mulls on use of AI to speed drug discovery

Singapore: In a bid to spur the country’s drug development and research, South Korea’s leading biopharmaceu...

July 25, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Korean scientists create first nanoparticle-based tissue adhesive

Researchers at the Center for Nanoparticle Research, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in collaboration with ...

July 21, 2017 | Friday | News
Celltrion eyes product and sales expansion after IPO

Ina recent press conference held in Seoul, Korean biosimilar giant Celltrion said that it would actively seek out new dr...

July 17, 2017 | Monday | News
Korean researchers discover a drug for treating stent patients

Researchers at the Seoul National University Hospital have found out that coating stents with an erectile dysfunction dr...

July 13, 2017 | Thursday | News
Sun Pharma, Samsung Biologics ink deal for psoriasis drug

India’s drug giant Sun Pharma has inked a long term manufacturing agreement with Korea’s Samsung Biologics f...

July 5, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Orum Therapeutics raises $8 mn funding

Orum Therapeutics based in Korea announced the completion of an $8 million Series A financing with InterVest, KB Investm...

June 20, 2017 | Tuesday | News
New Korean drugs to hit the market

Singapore: South Korean pharmaceutical companies are poised to release a series of important drugs in the second half of...

June 9, 2017 | Friday | News
Smart contact lens sensor developed

A recent study, affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea has proposed the...

May 5, 2017 | Friday | News
NeuroVive in partnership with Yungjin Pharm Corporation Ltd

NeuroVive Pharmaceutical AB and Yungjin Pharm Corporation Ltd jointly announced that they have entered into a global lic...

May 2, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Samsung GC70 digital radiography system receives FDA clearance

Samsung announced that the GC70 Digital Radiography (DR) system received FDA 510(k) clearance for the U.S. market, under...

April 28, 2017 | Friday | News
Korea announces $100 mn fund for bio startups

Singapore: In a bid to further provide a boost to South Korea's burgeoning biotech industry, the science ministry has es...

April 3, 2017 | Monday | News
Korea to inaugurate country's first biosafety level-4 lab

Singapore: The Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced the opening of the country's first bi...

March 20, 2017 | Monday | News
South Korea approves commercialization of Zestra

Singapore: San Diego Based Innovus Pharmaceuticals has announced that its partner J&H Co. LTD, a South Korean compan...

February 6, 2017 | Monday | News
South Korea's Mezzion Pharma files lawsuit against India's Dr Reddy's laboratories

Singapore: South Korean pharmaceutical firm Mezzion Pharma has filed a suit against India's Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd ...

January 31, 2017 | Tuesday | News
Korea's pharma workforce up by 27 percent

Singapore: With the South Korean pharma industry expanding, the size of the local pharma workforce grew by 27 percent co...

December 6, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Clinical trials for Rituxan biosimilar begin in Korea

Singapore: Clinical trials for new Rituxan biosimilar has been initiated by a joint venture between Samsung Biologics an...

November 29, 2016 | Tuesday | News
UK, Korea ink pact to promote biological standardization

Singapore: Korea's National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation (NIFDS) has inked a deal with UK's National Ins...

October 25, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Teva to buy Korea's Celltrion?

Singapore: With a view to strengthen its biosimilars portfolio, Isreali drug giant Teva pharmaceuticals said that it may...

October 18, 2016 | Tuesday | News
South Korea's Hanmi pharmaceuticals in troubled waters!

Singapore: New blockbuster cancer drug from South Korea's Hanmi pharmaceuticals is in troubled waters after a patient di...

October 14, 2016 | Friday | News
Korea's Hanmi inks deal with Roche's Genetech

Singapore: South Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical has inked a deal with Roche's Genentech (to develop and commercialize Hanm...

September 30, 2016 | Friday | News
GE opens Bioprocessing Technology and Training Center in South Korea

Singapore: GE Healthcare's Life Sciences business has announced the opening of a GE Fast Trak Center in Songdo, Incheon ...

September 29, 2016 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific opens new clinical services facility in Korea

Singapore: With a view to address the growing demand in clinical services, Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a new cli...

September 19, 2016 | Monday | News
Roche Korea apppoints a new GM

Singapore: Swiss pharma giant Roche recently appointed Mr Matt Sause as the new general manger for its Korean branch. Mr...

April 26, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Koreans to wear Zika-proof uniforms in the Olympics

Singapore: With the international Olympic games alls et to kick off in Brazil this year, South Korea has invented new Zi...

April 29, 2016 | Friday | News
CEVEC, Yuhan sign deal for immortalized cell lines

Singapore: CEVEC Pharmaceuticals, the developer of a novel human expression system derived from amniocytes, and Yuhan, ...

December 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
Samsung's Humira biosimilar accepted for review by EU

Singapore: Korean drug giant Samsung Bioepis, recently revealed that it is seeking regulatory approval in Europe to sell...

July 19, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo inks marketing pact with Daewoong Pharmaceutical

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Daiichi Sankyo Korea and Daewoong Phar...

December 29, 2015 | Tuesday | News
China Cord Blood, Cordlife join hands for stem cell therapy services

Singapore: China Cord Blood Corporation (CCBC) and Cordlife Group, a multi-product healthcare company catering to the mo...

July 25, 2014 | Friday | News
Korea to nurture pharma sector with capital assistance

Singapore: The Korean Ministry of health and welfare have announced the start of second phase of Global Pharmaceutical I...

February 6, 2015 | Friday | News
Amgen to acquire rights of three drugs from GSK

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Amgen, has plans to reacquire all of its remaining rights from GSK on Prolia (...

December 16, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Asia's lung cancer burden

Lung cancer occurs in two types, small cell lung cancer and the more prevalent non-small scale lung cancer. According to...

April 8, 2016 | Friday | Analysis
Biosimilars to push growth in China, Korea, India

Singapore: The annual revenue for biopharmaceuticals has been consistently growing since 2001, accounting for 15.6 perc...

October 5, 2012 | Friday | News
Bayer Korea appoints a new CEO

Singapore: Bayer Korea recently announced the appointment of Ms Ingrid Drechsel as its new CEO. The company said in a st...

January 27, 2015 | Tuesday | News
TWi Biotech secures patent for diabetes drug in Korea

Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Biotechnology has been granted patent in Korea for it diabetes drug, AC-201, from the Korean...

October 28, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Green cross expands cell therapy business in China

Singapore: South Korean biopharmaceutical company, Green Cross, is expanding its presence in China by building a cell th...

March 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
Singapore, Korea partner to boost innovation in MedTech

Singapore: Singapore-Stanford Biodesign (SSB) has inked a three-year pact with Korea's Dongguk University (DU) to train ...

May 4, 2015 | Monday | News
Korean President rolls out plans to beef up biotech sector

Singapore: With a view to bolster the country's burgeoning biotech sector, the South Korean government recently announce...

April 28, 2016 | Thursday | News
Top 20: SOUTH KOREA - Registers 5% Growth

South Korean publicly listed bioscience companies in 2013 registered combined revenue of $8.3 billion. The leading pu...

July 7, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Anteo Diagnostic to enter Korea market

Singapore: Australia based global medical technology company, Anteo Diagnostics, has entered into a non-exclusive distri...

October 20, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Novartis in bribery scandal again,this time in Korea

Singapore:The latest in a string of scandals related to Novartis comes from Korea. As reported by the Korean Herald, six...

August 11, 2016 | Thursday | News
Seegene develops real-time array to fuel POCT

Singapore: Seegene has developed a novel real-time array technology designed specifically to accelerate the development ...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Asian endoscopy market clocked $264.7 mn in 2012

Singapore: Endoscopy devices market in Australia, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, earned revenues of USD264.7 million i...

December 10, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Korea's LSK Global strengthens ties with Medidata

Singapore: Korea's leading CRO, LSK Global has expanded its use of Medidata Clinical cloud platform, thus strengthening ...

June 14, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Linagliptin efficacy further established in specific patient populations

Seoul: Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly & Company have announced new data that reinforces the efficacy and tolerab...

November 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim, Hanmi to co-develop lung cancer drug

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and Korea's Hanmi Pharmaceutical have collaborated for the development and global commer...

July 30, 2015 | Thursday | News
South Korea, EU join hands for bio-nano research

Singapore: In a bid to boost its biotech and nanotechnology sectors, South Korea has inked a $80 million pact with the E...

June 17, 2015 | Wednesday | News
CrystalGenomics partners with Dong-A for Acelex commercialization

Singapore: Korea based CrystalGenomics has signed a sales and marketing agreement with Dong-A ST for the commercializati...

August 14, 2015 | Friday | News
Samsung progresses on RA biosilimar drug ph 3 trial

Singapore: Korea pharma giant, Samsung Bioepis, has successfully completed Phase 3 clinical study of SB5, an investigati...

July 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Vigilant Biosciences enters Korea's oral cancer market

Singapore: Vigilant Biosciences, developer of early detection and intervention technology for oral cancer, has entered i...

March 11, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Dong-A Pharma diversifies portfolio to include biosimilars

Clocking revenues of $995.40 million, Dong-A pharmaceutical is acknowledged as a leading name in Korea's pharmaceutica...

June 4, 2013 | Tuesday | Analysis
Samsung to construct a new drug manufacturing plant

Singapore: Samsung BioLogics, biologic drug-manufacturing arm of Samsung Group said that it would invest 850 billion Kor...

December 1, 2015 | Tuesday | News
BioElectronics enters Korean pain relief market

Singapore: BioElectronics, the maker of unique pain relief, inexpensive, patented, consumer medical devices, begun produ...

April 5, 2013 | Friday | News
Asia an emerging hotspot in medical tourism

Singapore: BioSpectrum feels the pulse of Asia's top destinations and major players in medical tourism.  Medical tour...

March 9, 2015 | Monday | Analysis
Korean Shin Poong and French LFB set up JV

Singapore: South Korean drugmaker, Shin Poong Pharmaceutical, and France's Laboratoire francais du Fractionnement et des...

January 17, 2013 | Thursday | News
Green Cross to expand biologics market in Russia

Singapore: Korea based biopharmaceutical company, Green Cross, has partnered with Nanolek, a Russian pharmaceutical comp...

April 3, 2015 | Friday | News
China surpasses Korea in sci-tech competitiveness

Singapore: A report published on February 11 by the Hyundai Economic Research Institute titled, 'Comparison of Korea-Chi...

February 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Samsung eyes Nasdaq listing to raise cash

Singapore: Korean drugmaker Samsung Bioepis has declared plans to list on Nasdaq with eyes on raising cash to manufactur...

June 30, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Korean companies lag behind in new drug research: Report

Singapore: Korean pharmaceutical companies were found to be lagging behind in new product development, according to a ne...

August 4, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Korea's ImmunoMet raises $5.2 mn

Singapore: Korea based ImmunoMet Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing innovative drugs for the treatment of ...

March 14, 2016 | Monday | News
Green Cross builds biopharmaceutical facility in Canada

Singapore: Korea's Green Cross Biotherapeutics has started the construction of its biopharmaceutical facility located on...

June 5, 2015 | Friday | News
Soon, detect water contamination by smelling it!

Singapore: Korean scientists are developing a new bio-electronic device that can detect bacteria in water by smelling it...

September 11, 2015 | Friday | News
Korean 3D bioprinting company receives $3 mn funding from govt

Singapore: Rokit, a leading South Korean 3D printing company recently announced that it has received a $3 million govern...

July 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
Mundipharma to market Korea's Medifoam

Singapore: Singapore based pharmaceutical company, Mundipharma has collaborated with Korean firm Genewel for licensing a...

June 3, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Stem cell may extend life span'

Singapore: Korean researchers have determined the possibility that adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may extend health...

August 31, 2015 | Monday | News
Allianz Life Korea launches a healthcare app

Singapore: Allianz Life Korea has launched a new healthcare app that can check a person's blood pressure, heartbeat and ...

July 2, 2015 | Thursday | News
Sale of wound care devices spurs in Asia-Pacific: Frost & Sullivan analysis report

Singapore: Advanced wound care and modern wound closure products are gaining an edge over traditional wound dressings in...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Photonics commercializes tissue surgery laser

Singapore: Photonics, which recently received investments from Maxwell Biotech Venture Fund and RVC Seed Fund, has made ...

February 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
How will Asia tackle total drug resistant TB?

The latest concern to have plagued the field of tuberculosis (TB) is the emergence of total drug resistant TB (TDR-TB). ...

March 23, 2012 | Friday | News
Janssen faces suspension in S Korea, recalls drug

Singapore: Janssen Pharma, which is member of the Johnson&Johnson (J&J) group of companies, South Korean unit ha...

May 6, 2013 | Monday | News
Green Cross begins clinical trials for hepatitis drug

Singapore: South Korean biopharmaceutical company, Green Cross recently announced that it has received approval from the...

July 13, 2015 | Monday | News
OxOnc, Pfizer drug trial to be held in Asia

Singapore: OxOnc Development, an oncology development company founded by pharmaceutical development executives and oncol...

February 11, 2013 | Monday | News

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