Partnership in Korea to advance 3D printing medical device technology

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), in collaboration with Pusan National University Yangsan Hosp...

September 20, 2023 | Wednesday | News
ST Pharm invests $110 M in new oligonucleotide facility in Korea

South Korea-based ST Pharm has successfully marked the completion of its groundbreaking ceremony, signaling a significan...

September 19, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Remedi introduces affordable & innovative handheld X-ray solution in India

Remedi, a leading Korean research & radiology device company with cutting-edge products known for its expertise in r...

September 18, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's Samsung Biologics expands oncology agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb

South Korea-based Samsung Biologics has announced a new agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) for large-scale manufa...

September 18, 2023 | Monday | News
IVI and Grid Biosciences partner for Epstein-Barr virus vaccine development for global access

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organisation with a mission to discover, devel...

September 16, 2023 | Saturday | News
MGI and Bio-Medical Science to deliver cutting-edge sequencing platforms to South Korea

MGI, a China-based company, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korean firm Bio-Medica...

September 14, 2023 | Thursday | News
Gilead Sciences appoints new GM for Korea

Gilead Sciences has announced the appointment of Jae Yeon Choi as General Manager (GM), Korea, effective 1st October 202...

September 14, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea & Vietnam to expand collaboration on drugs and medical devices into cosmetic sector

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), South Korea is holding a bilateral collaboration meeting with the Drug...

September 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Samsung Bioepis inks immunology biosimilar deal with Sandoz

Sandoz, a division of Swiss firm Novartis in generic and biosimilar medicine, has entered into a development and commerc...

September 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea-Serbia collaboration to establish vaccine manufacturing facilities

South Korea-based SK bioscience has announced that Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia (Serbia) visit...

September 8, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea develops novel DNA biosensor for early diagnosis of cervical cancer

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has recently garnered attention among materials science researchers owing to its ability to ...

September 8, 2023 | Friday | 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
Korea to support fill and finish of oral cholera vaccine in Ghana

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), EuBiologics, and DEK Vaccines have signed a Memorandum of Under...

September 6, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Seegene unveils Open Innovation Programme in partnership with Springer Nature

Seegene Inc., a leading South Korean company providing a total solution for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) molecular di...

September 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korean Health Ministry earmarks KRW 122.5 Trillion for 2024 budget, up 12.2% from 2023

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) in South Korea said the 2024 budget has been approved at Cabinet Meeting....

September 4, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's IVI renews partnership with CEPI to accelerate development of vaccines

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the International Vaccine Insti...

September 4, 2023 | Monday | News
South Korea poised to become Medical AI Powerhouse

South Korea is ramping up efforts to bolster AI development in life sciences.The country is implementing strategic initi...

September 1, 2023 | Friday | Analysis
Korea's IVI launches typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign in Africa

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organisation with a mission to discover, devel...

August 28, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's GC Biopharma to produce cholera vaccines jointly with Eubiologics

South Korea-based GC Biopharma has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Eubiologics (also based in South Kore...

August 25, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia-Korea joint development agreement for needle-free patch delivery of typhoid vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience has entered into a collaboration agreement with Vaxxas, an Australian biotechnology comp...

August 29, 2023 | Tuesday | 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
Korea's SK Biopharma enters MENA through strategic partnership with Hikma

London-based Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC has announced a new strategic partnership and exclusive licensing agreement...

August 21, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea designs non-invasive test as breakthrough in early diagnosis of bladder cancer

Bladder cancer has a five-year survival rate of over 80% when detected early, but this rate declines significantly as th...

August 18, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea-US partnership to revolutionise AI-based early drug discovery

South Korea-based startup Standigm, a company using artificial intelligence (AI) technology for drug discovery and devel...

August 16, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Surging demand for Korean pharma in 2023 ahead of CPHI Korea

The industry in Korea has seen its ‘growth potential’ increase by 7% in the 2023 CPHI Annual Survey. With th...

August 10, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korean startup Kakao Healthcare inks MoU with Novo Nordisk Pharma

South Korea-based startup Kakao Healthcare has signed a business agreement with Denmark-headquartered Novo Nordisk Pharm...

August 8, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Pharmanovia appoints new GM for Korea & Japan

Pharmanovia, a UK-based pharmaceutical company that commercialises novel medicines and revitalises, extends and expands ...

August 9, 2023 | Wednesday | News
SK bioscience announces equity investment in Novavax to strengthen strategic partnership

South Korea-based SK bioscience, an innovative vaccine and biotech company, has decided to make an equity investment in ...

August 9, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean startup Lunit accelerates expansion across Middle East with new supply contract

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

July 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Daewoong Pharma steps into Africa's digestive health market with $20.32 M deal

South Korea-based Daewoong Pharmaceutical has signed an agreement for license and distribution of potassium-competitive ...

July 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
NAVER injects 30 B KRW to support digital bio research at Seoul National University Hospital

NAVER Corporation has announced a donation of 30 billion KRW over a span of three years to Seoul National University Hos...

July 25, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea's GC Biopharma gets its first-ever approval of quadrivalent flu vaccine in Africa

GC Biopharma, a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, has announced that its quadrivalent flu vaccine called GC F...

July 24, 2023 | Monday | News
Sosei Heptares buys Idorsia’s pharma business in Japan and Korea for JPY65 B

Japan-headquartered Sosei Group Corporation is acquiring from Swiss firm Idorsia Ltd and Idorsia Pharmaceutical Ltd...

July 24, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea picks five regions to build Global Bio Campus to train biomanufacturing workforce

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW) in South Korea has announced the results of the public contest held to sel...

July 20, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea approves SGLT2i + metformin combination drug Envlomet for diabetes treatment

South Korea-based Daewoong Pharmaceutical has obtained approval for a SGLT-2 inhibitor+metformin combination drug in jus...

July 19, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK Biopharma seeks to become major player in radiopharmaceutical therapy in Asia

SK Biopharmaceuticals, based in South Korea, has unveiled its new strategy that will enable the company take a leap towa...

July 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
MSIT-Google collaborate to nurture AI development in Korea

The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) in South Korea and Google jointly coordinated ‘AI for Korea 2023,’ wh...

July 17, 2023 | Monday | News
South Korea injects $9.5 M to establish 100 bed hospital in Nepal

The Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal and the Embassy of Republic of Korea in Nepal have signed a Memorandum of U...

July 13, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korean firm Lotte Biologics internalises Antibody-Drug Conjugate services

South Korea-based Lotte Biologics has recently signed an agreement for contract research and joint development regarding...

July 11, 2023 | Tuesday | News
SK bioscience to transfer technology for strengthening vaccine manufacturing in Thailand

South Korea-based biotech firm SK bioscience has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government Pha...

July 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea develops novel hydrogel as hope for infertility and fertility challenges

The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service revealed that over the last year, more than 370,000 Koreans sought ...

July 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea's SK bioscience inks agreement on influenza research with Doherty Institute in Australia

SK bioscience, a global innovative vaccine and biotech company based in South Korea, has signed a collaboratio...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | News
US-Korea partnership for hyper-personalised digital blood sugar management service

South Korea-based Kakao Healthcare has signed a Global Collaboration Agreement for business cooperation in Continuous Gl...

June 26, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea uncovers new cancer reversion treatment strategy

Despite decades of intensive cancer research by numerous biomedical scientists, cancer still holds its place as the numb...

June 23, 2023 | Friday | News
International Vaccine Institute inks new agreement with Seoul National University

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Seoul National University signed an agreement to expand collaboration in r...

June 21, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK bioscience receives WHO Emergency Use Listing of COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience has received the World Health Organisation (WHO) Emergency Use Listing (EUL) of its COVI...

June 20, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea designs implantable electronic system to treat urinary disorders

A research team at KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, in collaboration with a research team f...

June 16, 2023 | Friday | News
Korean firm Seegene strengthens business expansion in Spain & Portugal

Seegene, a leading South Korean company which provides a total solution for PCR molecular diagnostics, has announced an ...

June 15, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea-Africa establish new partnership for vaccine R&D and biomanufacturing training

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) in West Africa, have signed ...

June 14, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea announces national project worth $3.6 M converging semiconductor and biotechnology

DxVx has won the national project, 'Korea-led K-Sensor Technology Development for Market Leadership' supported by the Mi...

June 12, 2023 | Monday | News
FIND deepens ties with Korea to improve access to diagnostic testing in LMICs

FIND, a global health non-profit based in Geneva, Switzerland, has announced that two Memoranda of Understanding (M...

June 13, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea's Samsung Biologics and Pfizer partner for long-term manufacturing of biosimilars portfolio

South Korea-based Samsung Biologics and American pharma firm Pfizer have recently announced a strategic partnership aime...

June 9, 2023 | Friday | News
US-based Rani Therapeutics expands biologics partnership with Korean firm Celltrion

Rani Therapeutics Holdings, a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company focused on the oral delivery of biologics and drugs...

June 8, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea-Sweden partnership to address radiologist shortage with AI-powered mammography analysis

South Korea-based startup Lunit, a leading global provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cancer diagnostic sol...

June 6, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea's Seegene obtains European certification for 30 diagnostic assays

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

June 5, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's GC Biopharma to build plasma fractionation plant in Indonesia

GC Biopharma, a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, has successfully obtained final approval from the Indonesian Min...

June 2, 2023 | Friday | News
Yuhan Corp & J INTS BIO ink $325 M worth oncology deal in Korea

South Korea-based Yuhan Corporation has signed an in-license agreement with J INTS BIO for a Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor (...

May 31, 2023 | Wednesday | News
SK bioscience receives marketing authorisation of COVID-19 vaccine in UK

SK bioscience, based in South Korea, has announced the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (M...

May 31, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Lunit and Japan National Cancer Center Hospital East partner in AI pathology

South Korea-based startup Lunit, has announced collaboration with the National Cancer Center Hospital East (NCCHE) to ev...

May 31, 2023 | Wednesday | News
WHO and Korea sign landmark agreement to boost biomanufacturing capacity

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Republic of Korea have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establi...

May 29, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea-US partnership to co-develop therapy for Parkinson's Disease

South Korean firms HanAll Biopharma and Daewoong Pharmaceutical have entered into a co-development agreement with N...

May 26, 2023 | Friday | News
Medtronic to acquire wearable insulin patch maker EOFlow in Korea for $738 M

Medtronic plc, Ireland-headquartered healthcare technology firm, has entered into a set of definitive agreements to...

May 29, 2023 | Monday | News
Korean firm Avixgen to expedite drug pipeline development and pursue IPO in 2025

South Korea-based Avixgen is currently having a strong pipeline in ophthalmic diseases such as age related macular degen...

May 25, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea's International Vaccine Institute establishes Joint Research Institution in China

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has sigend a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nankai ...

May 23, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Urgent Care Centre for people with developmental disabilities opens in Korea

Cho KyooHong, Minister of Health and Welfare, recently visited the inaugural urgent care centre for people with developm...

May 22, 2023 | Monday | News
DxVx appoints Yong Gu Lee as new CEO and Kevin Kwon as new president

South Korea's DxVx has appointed Yong Gu Lee as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Kevin Kwon, the former head of...

May 17, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Next&Bio to establish subsidiary in Singapore to prepare for global expansion

Next&Bio Inc., a South Korea-based startup that has developed an organoid-based precision medicine drug discove...

May 17, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's electronics firm Samsung gets FDA clearence for irregular heart rhythm notification tool

South Korea headquartered Samsung Electronics Co. has announced that the Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification (IHRN) feat...

May 16, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea announces strategic plan against emerging infectious diseases

The Korean Government has announced the medium- and long-term strategic plan against emerging infectious diseases. Under...

May 12, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea-US form high-tech alliance to set global standards for medical products

President Yoon Suk Yeol, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of the Republic of Korea (Minister Oh Yu-Kyoun...

May 8, 2023 | Monday | News
Bangalore Gastro Centre signs MoU with Korea's 3BIGS to transform diagnostic experience in India

The Bangalore Gastro Centre (BGC), a pioneer in top-quality specialist care for all digestive disorders, has signed...

May 5, 2023 | Friday | News
Korean startup Kalos gets $3.5 M grant to develop renal denervation device for hypertension treatment

Kalos Medical was selected as a participant in the 2023 Industrial Technology Innovation Project, administered by S...

May 5, 2023 | Friday | News
“As Precision Medicine is critical, we cannot think about one size fits all”

Can you explain what GPCR heteromers are and why they are a promising target for cancer therapeutics? Before I answer y...

May 3, 2023 | Wednesday | Opinion
Merck to open new Asia-Pacific Bioprocessing Centre in South Korea

US-based science and technology company, Merck has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Minis...

May 4, 2023 | Thursday | News
Importance of HPV Testing and Genotyping in Cervical Cancer Prevention

Dr. Mohd Azizuddin bin Mohd Yussof, CT (IAC), Bsc. (Biomedical), MHealthSc. (Biomedical), PhD (Pathology) is the Directo...

May 2, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Korea gears up to train physician-scientists by joining hands with US-based organisations​

Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with US-base...

May 2, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea begins clinical development of new low-cost oral cholera vaccine in capsule form

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), based in South Korea, has begun clinical development of DuoChol, a new low-co...

May 1, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's Daewoong Pharma inks $477 M deal with US partner for autoimmune disease treatment

South Korea-based Daewoong Pharmaceutical has signed a Global License Agreement for its autoimmune disease drug can...

April 28, 2023 | Friday | News
India, Korea strengthen ties to boost pharma sector

The Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA) and the Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharma Manufacturers Associ...

April 27, 2023 | Thursday | News
Agilent & Theragen Bio to advance bioinformatic solutions for cancer genomic profiling in South Korea

American firm Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) wi...

April 27, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korean startup Lunit teams up with US-based Indica Labs for digital pathology AI workflows

US-based Indica Labs, an industry leader in quantitative digital pathology and image management innovations, and Lunit, ...

April 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
NGeneBio signs business agreement with Agilent Korea to expand NGS market

NGeneBio, a precision diagnosis platform based on next-generation sequencing (NGS), has signed a business agreement ...

April 25, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korean firms push development of mRNA-based cancer therapeutics

South Korea-based firms Samyang Holdings and LG Chem have announced their recent execution of strategic partnership agre...

April 21, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea designs highly-sensitive blood pressure sensing wearable device

A research team from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a highly sensitive, wearab...

April 20, 2023 | Thursday | News
New drug discovery research collaboration between Korea & UK

South Korean firm Daewoong Pharmaceutical has entered a research collaboration with UK-based Sygnature Discovery to expa...

April 19, 2023 | Wednesday | News
West Pharma announces extension of complete containment solution in Korea

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. has announced the extension of its complete containment solution, Ready Pack, in...

April 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
South Korean startup Neurophet's AI brain imaging device gets approval in Singapore

Neurophet, a company specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for brain disease imaging, has obtained medi...

April 17, 2023 | Monday | News
Korean firm Standigm announces Younsung Choo as Chief Executive Officer

South Korea based Standigm, a company using artificial intelligence (AI) technology for drug discovery and developm...

April 13, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea fabricates multi-organ on-a-chip for studying diabetes treatment

A team of researchers at South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and at Eunpyeong St. Ma...

April 13, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea announces groundbreaking AI-based liquid biopsy technology for multi-cancer early detection

South Korea-based GC Genome Corporation has announced the publication of a new study in Nature Communications, show...

April 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Don't Let Clinical Supply Risks Derail Your Success: Join Our Webinar

Title: Proactive Strategies to Evaluate and Mitigate Clinical Supply Risk Date: May 24, 2023 Synopsis ...

April 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Bora Pharmaceuticals and Celltrion partner to expand OSD capabilities in APAC market

Taiwan-based Bora Pharmaceuticals Co. and Celltrion Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of South Korea-based Celltrion Group Inc,...

April 8, 2023 | Saturday | News
Standigm and Institut Pasteur Korea identify drug candidates for resistant tuberculosis

Standigm, a South Korea-based startup using artificial intelligence (AI) technology for drug discovery and development, ...

April 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korean firm Hugel appoints Suk-yong Cha as Executive Chairman and Chairman of Board

Hugel, a South Korea-based medical aesthetics company, has announced the appointment of Suk-yong Cha, former Vice c...

April 5, 2023 | Wednesday | News
International Vaccine Institute exchanges MoU with Seegene on global HPV burden study

South Korea-based firm Seegene and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organisation dedicated to...

April 4, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea-Singapore research offers simultaneous diagnosis and treatment of cancer

A research team from South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) collaborated with researche...

April 3, 2023 | Monday | News
"Diagnostic market in the Asia Pacific region is currently in a critical period"

Proteomics has developed a versatile platform technology for discovering diagnostic tests based on differences in protei...

April 1, 2023 | Saturday | Opinion
Korean firm DxVx completes Phase 1a clinical trial of novel cancer vaccine

DXVX has announced that its affiliated company Oxford Vacmedix (OVM) has completed Phase 1a trial of cancer vaccine and ...

April 3, 2023 | Monday | News
UK-based PharmaVentures enhances access for South Korean biotechs

PharmaVentures has announced its new office in Korea as part of its continued strategic expansion. Headquartered in ...

March 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea's HanAll Biopharma assigns Su-jin Park as Co-CEO to drive next growth phase

South Korea-based HanAll Biopharma has announced that Su-jin Park has been appointed as new Co-Chief Executive Officer (...

March 30, 2023 | Thursday | News

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