Cell Gene Biobank-based innovation centre to open in South Korea

South Korea-based CHA Bio Group and CIC, a Cambridge, US-based global leader in building and operating innovation commun...

May 13, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea-Saudi Arabia discuss healthcare cooperation

Minister of Health and Welfare in South Korea, Cho Kyoo-Hong recently met with Yousef Bin Abdullah Al-Benyan, Minister o...

May 10, 2024 | Friday | News
Korea & America join hands to advance global health research and capability

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Baylor College of Medicin, a health science university and a Te...

May 9, 2024 | Thursday | News
Avance Clinical expands further into APAC with new clinical operations in South Korea

Avance Clinical has announced the opening of new clinical operations in Seoul, South Korea. Avance Clinic...

May 8, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Sciwind Biosciences & HK inno.N ink $56 M deal to treat metabolic diseases in Korea

Sciwind Biosciences Co., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments for metabolic disea...

May 7, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korea Vaccine Center for Assisting Safety & Technology signs MoU with IVI for regulatory science and training

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Korea Vaccine Center for Assisting Safety & Technology (K-VCAST) h...

May 2, 2024 | Thursday | News
The Flagship Antibody-Drug Conjugate Event is Back! – World ADC Asia 2024

With a storm of collaborations and novel innovations happening, all eyes are turning towards the APAC region for ...

April 26, 2024 | Friday | News
Korean firms OSR Holdings and SillaJen ink deal to develop innovative therapies and enter US market

South Korea-based biotech startup OSR Holdings has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SillaJen, a Kosdaq-li...

April 23, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korean firm Hyundai Bioscience soon to initiate global clinical development on dengue antiviral candidate

South Korea's biotechnology company Hyundai Bioscience has completed the development of a niclosamide-based fo...

April 22, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea-based EuBiologics’ cholera vaccine achieves WHO prequalification

EuBiologics and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), based in South Korea, have announced that Euvichol-S, an impr...

April 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korean firm LG accelerates B2B medical device biz with full lineup of diagnostic monitors

South Korea-headquartered LG Electronics is accelerating its B2B medical device business, leveraging a full lineup of di...

April 17, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Nxera Pharma inks deal with Handok to distribute PIVLAZ in South Korea

Japan-based Nxera Pharma, formerly known as Sosei Group or Sosei Heptares, has entered into an exclusive supply and...

April 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
World Orphan Drug Alliance expands to Japan & South Korea

The World Orphan Drug Alliance (WODA), a global alliance of commercial distributors dedicated to providing access to tre...

April 12, 2024 | Friday | News
Korea-based Medit unveils next evolution of Intraoral Scanners

South Korea-based Medit, a leading provider of dental 3D scanners and digital dentistry solutions, has announced th...

April 9, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Celltrion picks Wood to expand Songdo biopharma manufacturing hub in South Korea

Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering, has been selected by leading biopharmaceutical firm Celltrion to ...

April 8, 2024 | Monday | News
New England Biolabs opens subsidiary in South Korea

US-headquartered New England Biolabs (NEB), a world leader in the production of reagents for the life science industry, ...

April 4, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korea leverages JLABS global network to enhance growth of biotech and medtech startups

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Innovation has commemorated an agreement with the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of ...

April 1, 2024 | Monday | News
“AI will be integrally involved in not only the diagnosis of cancer but also in determining the prognosis and best therapeutic option”

What inspired Deep Bio to focus on developing in vitro diagnostic software for cancer pathology? With the advancement o...

April 1, 2024 | Monday | Opinion
Korean government to institute four healthcare reform tasks

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW), Government of the Republic of Korea has announced its 2024 Action Plan f...

March 29, 2024 | Friday | News
Korea expands healthcare cooperation with Turkmenistan, Paraguay, and Mongolia

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) in South Korea recently held bilateral meetings with deleg...

March 27, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Merck invests € 300+ M in new life science production site in Korea

Merck invests more than €300 million into a new Bioprocessing Production Centre in Daejeon, South Korea. The new si...

March 21, 2024 | Thursday | News
Japan's Shonan iPark commences collaboration with KBIOHealth in South Korea

Japan-based iPark Institute and Korea’s Osong Medical Innovation Foundation, a public institution in South Korea a...

March 20, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Samsung Medison partners with Italy-based Bracco Imaging for diagnostic ultrasound technology

South Korea-based Samsung Medison and Italy headquartered Bracco Imaging have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...

March 19, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Lunit delivers AI-powered cancer screening solution to France and Portugal

Lunit, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, has...

March 18, 2024 | Monday | News
Japan's Olympus rescinds purchase of Korean gastrointestinal stent firm Taewoong Medical

Japan's Olympus Corporation has agreed with the former shareholders of Taewoong Medical Co., a Korean medical devi...

March 15, 2024 | Friday | News
Korea develops medical waste sterilisation technology for hospitals

A medical waste treatment system, which is capable of 99.99 percent sterilisation by using high-temperature and high-pre...

March 14, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korea develops healthcare device to track chronic diabetic wounds​

A group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) has developed digital healthcare t...

March 12, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korea designs transparent ultrasound transducer to revolutionise biomedical imaging technology

Researchers from the Department of Convergence IT Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the School ...

March 11, 2024 | Monday | News
Samsung Biologics signs MoU with Seoul National University to foster bio experts

South Korea-based Samsung Biologics and Seoul National University (SNU) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ...

March 8, 2024 | Friday | News
SK bioscience expands manufacturing facility in Korea for pneumococcal vaccine production

SK bioscience, South Korea-based vaccine and biotech company, has broken ground on a major expansion of its vaccine manu...

March 7, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korea's International Vaccine Institute opens country office in Kenya

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) will open a Country and Project Office in Kenya dedicated to the...

March 5, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korea develops implant coating triggering antibiotic release against bacterial infection

A collaborative research team from the Department of Chemical Engineering and the School of Convergence Science and Tech...

March 4, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea using new rapid test for early outbreak control of Hantavirus

Orthohantaviruses, highly transmissible zoonotic pathogens, are notorious for causing haemorrhagic fever with renal synd...

March 1, 2024 | Friday | News
Korea and Singapore sign agreement on good manufacturing practice for medicinal products

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) in South Korea has signed the Mutual Recognition Agreement on Good Manufactu...

February 28, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK bioscience obtains WHO prequalification for typhoid conjugate vaccine

SK bioscience, a South Korea-based vaccine and biotech company, has obtained prequalification (PQ) certification from th...

February 27, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Kakao Brain launches web-based radiology report service

South Korea's startup Kakao Brain has unveiled the research use only (RUO) web-based solution powered by "KARA-CXR" (Kak...

February 26, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea's MediThinQ emerges as first Asian startup to globally launch XR surgical displays

MediThinQ, a Korean startup specialising in extended reality (XR) wearable displays for surgery, is making waves as the ...

February 20, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup AIRS Medical takes AI-powered MRI solutions to Australia & New Zealand

South Korea-based startup AIRS Medical Inc., a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered healthcare solut...

February 19, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea government invests KRW 910 B to raise more venture capital fund for startups

The Ministry of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and Startups in Korea has recently announced its plans to invest KRW...

February 15, 2024 | Thursday | News
Noul becomes first Korean diagnostic company to join Swiss Malaria Group

South Korea-based health tech startup Noul Co. has announced that its European subsidiary (noul GmbH) has become an offi...

February 13, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup C-Biomex announces oncology research partnership with US-based MD Anderson

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the US, and South Korea-based startup C-Biomex have announced ...

February 12, 2024 | Monday | News
Samsung Biologics & LegoChem Biosciences in Korea team up for ADC development

South Korea-based Samsung Biologics, a global contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has signed a p...

February 9, 2024 | Friday | News
UltraSight & Selvas Healthcare to commercialise AI-powered cardiac ultrasound software in Asia

Israel-based UltraSight, a digital health pioneer transforming cardiac imaging through the power of artificial intellige...

February 7, 2024 | Wednesday | News
China's Luye Pharma partners with Korea-based Myung In Pharm to improve Alzheimer's related dementia treatment

China-based Luye Pharma Group has entered into an agreement with South Korea's Myung In Pharm, granting the latter the e...

February 7, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK chemicals targets US medical packaging market with circular recycling solution

South Korea-based SK chemicals aims to enter the medical packaging market by unveiling a circular recycling solution at ...

February 2, 2024 | Friday | News
Researchers in Korea develop sweat resistant wearable robot sensor​

New electromyography (EMG) sensor technology that allows the long-term stable control of wearable robots and is not affe...

January 30, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Olympus aquires Korean Gastrointestinal Stent Company, Taewoong Medical

Olympus Corporation, the global MedTech company has aquired Taewoong Medical Co., Ltd, (Taewoong Medical), a Korea-...

January 25, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korean startup Wellysis takes ECG monitor to US and Indian markets

Digital healthcare innovator Wellysis is making waves in the global market with its revolutionary electrocardiogram...

January 26, 2024 | Friday | News
Korea's Seegene enhances automated diagnostic reagent development system with Microsoft

Seegene Inc., a leading South Korean company providing a total solution for PCR molecular diagnostics, has announced its...

January 25, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korea develops artificial muscle device to invoke various movements

Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a fluid switch using ionic...

January 24, 2024 | Wednesday | News
WuXi XDC and Celltrion sign MoU for integrated services for Antibody-Drug Conjugates

WuXi XDC, China-based contract research, development and manufacturing organisation (CRDMO) focused on antibody drug con...

January 24, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Lotte Biologics inks deal with US-based NJ Bio for antibody drug conjugates services

South Korean firm Lotte Biologics has recently signed a strategic business agreement with NJ Bio (hereinafter refer...

January 22, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea's Samsung Electronics develops hip-assist robot to advance fitness in elderly

With the advancement of science and technology, robotics have infiltrated numerous sectors, including healthcare. Samsun...

January 18, 2024 | Thursday | News
Korean FUST Lab's DEBREX Nano-Emulsion/Dispersion equipment enters Japan market

Korean spin-off company from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, FUST Lab's DEBREX Nano-Emulsion...

January 16, 2024 | Tuesday | News
Dental Bridge from South Korea marks entry into Indian market

In a significant move to advance facial aesthetics treatments in India, Dbridge India, a subsidiary of South Korea's Den...

January 15, 2024 | Monday | News
Korea designs wrist rotation module to enhance usability and efficiency in prosthetic limbs

Robotic assistive devices play a crucial role in supporting the daily activities of individuals with congenital disabili...

January 12, 2024 | Friday | News
CEPI partners with Korean biotech startup Lemonex to advance mRNA vaccine delivery

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations(CEPI) has partnered with Lemonex Inc. (Lemonex), a bi...

January 5, 2024 | Friday | News
Korea gives license to Euvichol-S, simplified formulation of oral cholera vaccine

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and EuBiologics Co have announced the licensure for export by the Korean Minis...

January 2, 2024 | Tuesday | News
“Pharma companies in South Korea will need to invest in skill development”

How is the contract manufacturing/development sector evolving in Korea? How is West leveraging opportunities in this spa...

January 5, 2024 | Friday | Opinion
“The Open Innovation Program has become a trend in the molecular diagnostics industry”

Molecular diagnostics (MDx) is a powerful tool in healthcare. Could you explain why it's considered the most effective m...

January 11, 2024 | Thursday | Opinion
Korea's LegoChem Biosciences inks $1.7 B pact with J&J for ADC development

South Korea's LegoChem Biosciences (LCB) has entered into a license agreement with Janssen Biotech, Inc. (Janssen), a Jo...

December 28, 2023 | Thursday | News
Dx&Vx to develop bio-healthcare big data platform with IT firm LG CNS in Korea

South Korea-based firm Dx&Vx will develop a bio-healthcare big data platform utilising artificial intelligence (AI)&...

December 20, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Canadian healthcare startup Lydia AI expands reach in Korea

Lydia AI, a leading Canadian health artificial intelligence (AI) company, has announced its strategic collaborations wit...

December 18, 2023 | Monday | News
South Korea's Lunit buys NZ-based Volpara Health Technologies for $193 M

South Korea-based startup Lunit, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for cancer diagnos...

December 15, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea, Japan and China pledge to cooperate closely on healthcare

Second Vice-Minister of Health and Welfare in South Korea, Park Minsoo attended the 16th Tripartite Health Ministers' Me...

December 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
CEPI supports novel mRNA vaccine development in Korea to protect against future Disease X

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) has partnered with Korea’s Chungbuk National U...

December 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea to inject more than KRW 250 billion in Bio-health sector next year

The Ministry of Health and Welfare of South Korea government recently held the ‘K-Bio Investment Conference&r...

December 8, 2023 | Friday | News
GC Biopharma establishes mRNA production facility in Korea

GC Biopharma, a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, has completed the construction mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid)...

December 4, 2023 | Monday | News
CEPI, IVI and MRC Unit The Gambia to bolster clinical research capacity in West Africa to combat regional viral threat

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Republic of Korea-based International Vaccine Institute ...

November 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
DxVx plans clinical trials of cancer vaccine in Asia, including Korea and China

South Korea-based DxVx will conduct its own clinical trials of OVM-200, an anti-cancer vaccine from Oxford Vacmedix (OVM...

November 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea-UK advanced biotech cooperation to strengthen technological partnership

A number of Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on advanced biotechnology cooperation in the fields of synthetic biology, b...

November 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea accelerates innovations in vaccines and immunology

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have signed...

November 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea and Sri Lanka strengthen foundation for greater cooperation in healthcare

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW) in Korea, the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare (KOFIH) ...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
SK bioscience and Hilleman Laboratories to develop Zaire Ebola Virus vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience has entered into a development licensing agreement with Hilleman Laboratories, in Singap...

November 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea highlights golden future of wearable devices in healthcare

A research team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology ...

November 20, 2023 | Monday | News
Successful conclusion of Korea Life Science Week 2023!

Korea Life Science Week 2023, where one can grasp the latest research and development technologies and trends in th...

November 18, 2023 | Saturday | News
Japan-Korea partnership to propel growth of advanced biotechnology sector

Japan-based iPark Institute has announced the signing of a groundbreaking business agreement with South Korea's Small an...

November 16, 2023 | Thursday | News
Guardant Health launches Shield blood-based screening test for colorectal cancer in South Korea

US-based precision oncology company Guardant Health has launched its blood-based colorectal cancer screening test, ...

November 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's digital health brand H2U enters South Korean market to expand offerings

H2U, Taiwan's premier digital health brand, has announced another successful round of funding this year after receiving ...

November 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Lunit expands reach of AI-powered chest screening solution to global military health institutions

South Korea based startup Lunit has announced the successful supply of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chest sc...

November 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea develops metal-enhanced fluorescence probes for influenza A virus detection

In recent years, fluorescence-based lateral flow immunoassay (LFI) has gained popularity as a diagnostic tool for viral ...

November 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
Singapore, Korea become WHO-listed regulatory authorities

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Singapore; the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), Republic of Korea; and the ...

November 8, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK Bioscience to boost vaccine manufacturing in Africa

South Korea-based SK bioscience recently announced that Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General, African Centers...

November 6, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea develops new hydrogels for wound management

Wound management is essential to ensure a speedy and safe recovery, and tissue adhesive patches are an attractive option...

November 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea organises training programme for African vaccine manufacturing players

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has partnered with KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTR...

November 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea to launch governmental control tower for creation of new bio-health markets

The Ministry of Health and Welfare in South Korea has announced that the government has enacted the Presidential Decree&...

October 30, 2023 | Monday | News
Korean startup Lunit joins hands with Seha Virtual Hospital in Saudi Arabia for cancer screening

Lunit, a South Korea-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therape...

October 27, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea's GC Cell to share cell gene therapy technology with US Cancer Moonshot Project

South Korea-based GC Cell has announced its participation in CancerX, part of the US Cancer Moonshot project. The Cancer...

October 25, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Samsung Biologics to further expand footprint into European market

Samsung Biologics, South Korea-based contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), and Kurma Partners, a E...

October 24, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korean firm Celltrion announces business merger for achieving KRW 12 Tn in sales by 2030

South Korea-based Celltrion Group has announced that the merger agreement between Celltrion, Inc. and Celltrion Healthca...

October 23, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea showcases traditional medicines at world's first expo on health and healing

The 2023 Sancheong World Traditional Medicine Antiaging Expo ended on the 19th with a closing ceremony after its big run...

October 20, 2023 | Friday | News
Korean startup Sky Labs attracts investments totaling KRW 20.7 B in series C round

South Korea-based healthcare startup Sky Labs has attracted investments amounting to KRW 20.7 billion in a Ser...

October 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Vaccine production workforce training programme to enhance APAC's pandemic-response capacity

The Ministry of Health and Welfare in South Korea has announced that the Ministry and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a...

October 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore-Korea partnership for new ovarian cancer therapy

Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics Asia Pte Ltd (ST) has signed a license deal with Kore...

October 16, 2023 | Monday | News
South Korean startup Hexainnoheal develops new home-use device for pain management

Home-use medical device manufacturer in South Korea, Hexainnoheal has been gaining recognition for its pain therapy prod...

October 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea and Denmark share policies on welfare of elderly

South Korea's Minister of Health and Welfare Cho, KyooHong met with Denmark’s Minister for Senior Citizens, Mette ...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Noul enters cancer diagnostic biz with launch of cervical cell analysis product

South Korea-based startup Noul Co has newly introduced 'miLab™ Cartridge CER', a cervical cell analysis product at...

October 9, 2023 | Monday | News
KOREA LIFE SCIENCE WEEK 2023 (with KOREA LAB Autumn) to open on November 14

  KOREA LIFE SCIENCE WEEK 2023, where you can grasp the latest research and development technologies and trends in...

October 9, 2023 | Monday | News
Lotte Biologics to establish three new bio plants in Korea by 2030

Lotte Biologics has signed a land purchase agreement with the Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (IFEZ) for the establ...

October 5, 2023 | Thursday | News
“Lunit is poised to evolve from an AI-based medical imaging company into a pioneering provider of AI healthcare platform”

Can you provide a brief overview of Lunit's mission and its core focus in the field of medical AI? Lunit is a medical A...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion

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