Korea's Seegene to share Syndromic PCR technologies to prevent future pandemics

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

March 29, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean startup Noul receives $3.1 M support to enhance microscopic diagnosis of malaria

South Korea-based startup Noul Co. has signed an agreement with The RIGHT Foundation to conduct a global clinical s...

March 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea designs artificial kidney for early detection of drug toxicity

A research team from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in South Korea, has engineered an artif...

March 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea strengthens biotechnology entrepreneurial ecosystem

Orange Grove Bio, a drug investment and development firm in the US, has established new strategic collaborations with th...

March 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Korean firm launches PlaClin-M, a revolutionary disinfection device

CodeSteri, a leading provider of disinfection solutions in South Korea, has announced the launch of PlaClin-M, a revolut...

March 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea brings cutting-edge iPSC technology to biomedical community in India

GV Research Platform (GVRP), a renowned provider of preclinical research services in India, has announced a partnership ...

March 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korean firm Lunit set to launch 3D Breast Tomosynthesis AI solution in European market

South Korea-based Lunit, a leading global provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cancer solutions, has announc...

March 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea's Samsung Biologics invests over KRW 1.9 T in new facility

Samsung Biologics, a leading contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) based in South Korea, has announ...

March 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Collaboration in Korea to develop innovative therapeutic antibodies

Genuv Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology startup focused on drug discovery, and South Korea headquartred Celltrion, a ...

March 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea's LG Chem to supply UNICEF with $200 M worth of essential vaccines

South Korean firm LG Chem has announced that it will supply essential vaccines, including polio vaccines, for infants an...

March 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Medit launches new occlusion analyser app for dental professionals

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

March 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea announces global study to determine burden of HPV among girls and women

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), in South Korea, has announced the start of a multi-country study to better un...

March 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea develops nanoparticle-based deep brain stimulation therapy to treat Parkinson’s Disease

One of the various therapeutic approaches for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, th...

March 3, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea-based CJ BIO invests in Australian biotech startup Provectus Algae

Australian startup Provectus Algae has secured an undisclosed strategic investment from CJ BIO, a division of CJ CheilJe...

March 2, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea's GC Biopharma buys rare disease pipeline in haematology from Catalyst Biosciences

GC Biopharma, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in South Korea, has signed an Asset Purchase Agreement wi...

February 28, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea's diabetes drug Envlo to enter $1.54 B market in Brazil and Mexico

South Korean firm Daewoong Pharmaceutical has announced the launching of their national new drug #36, 'Envlo (ingredient...

March 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Rayence unveils first X-ray detector with next-gen technology

South Korea-based company Rayence has successfully applied the 'SPAD-GS' technology to 3D detectors. The technology...

February 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Japan's Olympus buys Korean gastrointestinal stent firm Taewoong Medical for $370 M

Olympus Corporation, a global medtech company headquartered in Japan, has agreed to acquire Taewoong Medical Co.,&n...

February 24, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea proposes use of light to treat wounds, instead of topical ointments

A team of scientists at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has developed an i...

February 23, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea's GC Biopharma receives WHO prequalification for chickenpox vaccine

GC Biopharma, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in South Korea, has announced that the World Health Organ...

February 22, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Uniting microbiome industry leaders in APAC with 'Microbiome Connect: Asia'

With Asia Pacific (APAC) set to experience transformative growth, the need to build meaningful connections with microbio...

February 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korean firms to develop novel microbiome treatment for Parkinson's disease

South Korean startup LISCure Biosciences Inc. has announced a multi-year strategic R&D collaboration with Celltrion ...

February 21, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Anthill and SparkLabs to boost international growth for Indian and Korean startups

Anthill Ventures, an India-headquartered startup accelerator fund and growth ecosystem, and SparkLabs, a renowned global...

February 17, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea's LegoChemBio buys first-in-class antibody from Swiss startup for cancer therapy

South Korea's LegoChem Biosciences Inc. has announced a license agreement with Elthera AG, a biotechnology sta...

February 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's HanAll Biopharma invests in American biotech startup Interon

South Korea based HanAll Biopharma is investing in Interon Laboratories, Inc., a US-based biotechnology company focusing...

February 14, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea designs smart contact lens for diagnosing and treating glaucoma

A research team at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has developed a smart conta...

February 13, 2023 | Monday | News
SK bioscience invests $261 M to establish vaccine-biopharma hub in Korea

SK bioscience, a South Korea-based innovative vaccine and biotech company committed to promoting human health from preve...

February 9, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea's Wellmarker Bio inks cancer drug trial collaboration with Merck

South Korean firm Wellmarker Bio (WMBIO) has entered a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Merck (kno...

February 10, 2023 | Friday | News
Dutch biotech firm Synaffix announces first partnership with Korean company

Synaffix B.V., a Dutch biotechnology company focused on commercialising its clinical-stage platform technology for the d...

February 8, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Qurient inks agreement with TB Alliance for new anti-tuberculosis agent

Qurient, a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in South Korea, and TB Alliance, a not-for-profit organisation ded...

February 6, 2023 | Monday | News
Guardant Health strengthens partnership with Korean startup Lunit to enhance cancer biomarker detection

South Korea-based startup Lunit, in partnership with leading precision oncology company Guardant Health in the US, has a...

February 1, 2023 | Wednesday | News
SN BioScience, Boryeong ink licensing agreement of first generic of anti-cancer drug Abraxane in Korea

Biotech startup SN BioScience and pharma major Boryeong have signed a domestic manufacturing technology transfer an...

January 30, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's Samsung Biologics to continue expansion in capacity, geography and portfolio in 2023

At the 2023 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in January, Samsung Biologics, a fully integrated CDMO offering state...

January 27, 2023 | Friday | News
Korea's GenKOre inks $300 M deal with US to develop in vivo gene-editing therapies

GenKOre, Inc., a Korea-based biotech company with hypercompact CRISPR-Cas tools, has entered into a ...

January 26, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea's International Vaccine Institute opens Country Office in Austria

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), based in Seoul (South Korea) has launched an IVI Country Office in&...

January 25, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Lotte Biologics announces $3 B investment plan to leap forward as global CDMO

Lotte Biologics CEO Richard Won-jik Lee has announced a blueprint to leap forward as a global contract development and m...

January 24, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea gives fast track approval to promising DNA vaccine for advanced cervical cancer

Genexine, a clinical-staged Korean biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery and development of novel biologi...

January 23, 2023 | Monday | News
SK Bioscience accelerates global growth strategy by picking talent from Big Pharma

South Korea-based SK bioscience has announced that Richard Kensinger, PhD (Left), former Director and Head of Drug Subst...

January 23, 2023 | Monday | News
South Korea's NGeneBio expands to ASEAN precision diagnosis market

South Korean diagnostics company NGeneBio Co. is accelerating its expansion into the ASEAN precision diagnosis market. ...

January 20, 2023 | Friday | News
South Korea approves Novavax Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine as adult booster

US-based Novavax, Inc. has announced that partner SK bioscience, based in South Korea, has received expanded manufacturi...

January 19, 2023 | Thursday | News
Korea provides new equation to US FDA for improving drug interaction prediction

Since it is practically impossible to evaluate all interactions between new drug candidates and all marketed drugs durin...

January 18, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Toray rolls out Remitch tablets for Pruritus treatment in Korea

Japan-based Toray Industries, Inc., has announced that Korean marketing partner SK Chemicals Co. has begun selling REMIT...

January 17, 2023 | Tuesday | News
New partnerships in Korea to transform mRNA technology into more vaccines

Gachon University, the Korea mRNA Vaccine Initiative (KmVAC), and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) recently exc...

January 16, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea-based Celltrion to supply 342,000 ampoules of infliximab to Brazil for autoimmune diseases treatment

Celltrion Healthcare, a South Korean biopharmaceutical company specialising in the development and production of biosimi...

January 13, 2023 | Friday | News
Southern Star Research announces expansion into South Korea and Singapore

Southern Star Research, an Australian contract research organisation (CRO) specialising in clinical trial acceleration w...

January 12, 2023 | Thursday | News
IVI, Batavia Biosciences sign MoU for vaccine research and development

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), a South Korea-based international organisation devoted to vaccines for global...

January 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Lunit provides AI-based chest X-Ray solution to Latin America's largest hospital

South Korea-based startup Lunit has signed a software license agreement with the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in S...

January 9, 2023 | Monday | News
South Korea's Alteogen partners with Sandoz AG for biosimilars

South Korean firm Alteogen Inc has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Sandoz AG. Under the terms of t...

January 4, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm LifeSemantics unveils digital therapeutics for patients requiring pulmonary rehabilitation

South Korea-based LifeSemantics has launched Redpill Breath, a digital therapeutics (DTx) for patients requiri...

December 30, 2022 | Friday | News
South Korea's EOFlow takes wearable insulin patch to US market

EOFlow, a provider of wearable drug delivery systems (DDS), has announced that it has submitted a 510(k) application to ...

December 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm LegoChem Biosciences inks $1.25 B research collaboration with Amgen

South Korea-based LegoChem Biosciences, Inc. (LCB) has entered into a research collaboration and license agree...

December 26, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea's Amorepacific inks beauty research agreement with Johns Hopkins University

Amorepacific Corporation, a South Korean beauty and cosmetics conglomerate, has announced its successful execution of a ...

December 21, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Researchers at Australia & Korea investigate effect of COVID-19 virus on vision

A study, co-led by Australia-based Griffith University’s Menzies Health Institute and South Korea’s Center f...

December 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea designs Myocardial Infarction treatment patch

Myocardial infarction is an ischemic disease in which a coronary artery supplying blood to the heart muscle is stenotic ...

December 19, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea, Singapore strengthen bilateral cooperation over digital health medical devices

South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) recently held a bilateral meeting with Health Sciences Authori...

December 16, 2022 | Friday | News
SK Biopharma unveils vision for digital healthcare in Korea

South Korea-based SK Biopharmaceuticals has introduced its roadmap and vision for its digital healthcare business. ...

December 14, 2022 | Wednesday | News
US promotes networking and investment for Korean medical startups

Over the past several months, the Korean Startup Center (KSC) Seattle and IntuitiveX (IX), in partnership with...

December 12, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea convened ROK-ASEAN invitational meeting for enhancing cooperation in healthcare

The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Health Promotion Institute held a ROK-ASEAN In...

December 8, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea's Daewoong Pharma aims to bring new diabetes drug in over 50 countries by 2030

South Korea-based Daewoong Pharmaceutical's "Envlo 0.3mg", a new sodium-glucose cotransporters 2 inhibitor (SGLT2) devel...

December 8, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea lays focus on AI-based seizure detection medical device

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) presented its preliminary study result of seizure monitoring for pati...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
SK Biopharmaceuticals appoints new CEO

South Korea-based SK Biopharmaceuticals has named Donghoon Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of Bio Investment Cent...

December 1, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea develops highly productive bioprocessing system

Bioprocesses, meant for increasing the number of living cells or other biologic systems/components such as bacteria, vir...

November 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Everest Medicines announces major regulatory updates in Taiwan and South Korea

China-based biopharma firm Everest Medicines has announced that the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration and Ministry of ...

November 28, 2022 | Monday | News
IVI, ST Pharm exchange MoU on clinical development of COVID-19 vaccine

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and ST Pharm have exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a...

November 25, 2022 | Friday | News
Biovac, IVI to develop & manufacture oral cholera vaccine for African and global markets

South African based biopharmaceutical company Biovac has concluded a ground-breaking licensing and technology transfer a...

November 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
Lunit accelerates AI-powered medical imaging across major overseas channels

South Korea-based startup Lunit has signed a global distribution agreement with Indian firm CARPL.ai, an end-to-end heal...

November 24, 2022 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience announces KRW 3 Bn donation to IVI to support advancement of global vaccine R&D

SK bioscience, a leading vaccine manufacturer based in the Republic of Korea and a key partner of the International Vacc...

November 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea inks MoU with US to establish precision medicine research platform

Seoul National University (SNU) Bundang Hospital Biomedical Research Institute has concluded a Memorandum of Understandi...

November 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Oramed signs deal with Medicox to commercialise oral insulin in South Korea

Oramed Pharmaceuticals, a US and Israel-based clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development of oral d...

November 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korean CRO expands partnership with Medidata to enhance clinical operations

US-based Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, has announced that C&R Research, the largest Korean CRO, has ...

November 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea Drug Development Fund invests in novel oncology candidate

South Korea-based SK Biopharmaceuticals has announced that the state-run Korea Drug Development Fund (KDDF) has decided ...

November 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Lemonex, IVI exchange MoU on joint vaccine development in Korea

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), in South Korea, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Lemonex, ...

November 14, 2022 | Monday | News
TAE Life Sciences to launch cancer radiation therapy in South Korea

US-based TAE Life Sciences (TLS), a biological-targeted radiation therapy company developing next-generation boron neutr...

November 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Alpinion Medical Systems introduces latest intelligent ultrasound technology

Alpinion Medical Systems, a subsidiary of South Korea-based ILJIN Group, plans to present a new range of high-performanc...

November 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience announces new strategy for continuous growth

South Korea-based SK bioscience has announced a future growth strategy to secure global top-tier vaccine development cap...

November 7, 2022 | Monday | News
Ono Pharma receives approval for mAb treatment of NSCLC in South Korea

Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical has announced that its Korean subsidiary of ONO, has received the approval of Opdivo (nivol...

October 30, 2022 | Sunday | News
Eucure Biopharma partners with ISU ABXIS to develop cancer drugs

Eucure Biopharma, a China-based clinical-stage biotechnology startup focused on the development of antibody therapeutics...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Lotte Biologics signs MoU with Huons Global for biologics manufacturing

South Korea-based startup Lotte Biologics has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Huons Global for clinical ...

November 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
SK bioscience and Hilleman to co-develop novel vaccine platforms

South Korea's SK bioscience has entered a strategic partnership with Singapore based Hilleman Laboratories to co-develop...

October 27, 2022 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience gets $140 M from CEPI to develop mRNA vaccines

South Korea-based SK bioscience has made a new partnership agreement with Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedne...

October 26, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea develops novel skin-attachable auditory sensor

A research team at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTEC...

October 22, 2022 | Saturday | News
SK bioscience appoints new executives towards global business growth

South Korea-based SK bioscience has announced that Dr Harry Kleanthous, formerly Senior Programme Officer in Global...

October 22, 2022 | Saturday | News
Korea's LG Chem to acquire AVEO Oncology for $566 M

South Korean chemical company LG Chem has announced a definitive agreement with AVEO Oncology in which LG Chem will...

October 20, 2022 | Thursday | News
South Korea's iNtRON develops new tech for robot bacteriophage development

iNtRON Biotechnology has established the 2nd generation technology of Robot Bacteriophage development. The random t...

October 19, 2022 | Wednesday | News
GenScript ProBio signs MOU with GeneCraft for new AAV gene therapies

GenScript ProBio, a global CDMO, and GeneCraft, a global research team led by Professor Suk Chul Bae of lung cancer...

October 18, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Researchers in Korea study new set of biomarkers for diabetes, obesity treatment

According to International Diabetes Federation, approximately 537 million adults (20-79 years) are living with diabetes ...

October 14, 2022 | Friday | News
AdAlta and GPCR Therapeutics collaborate on novel cancer therapeutics

Australia based AdAlta Limited, the clinical stage drug discovery company and South Korea based GPCR Therapeutics Inc, a...

October 13, 2022 | Thursday | News
MUST.CONNECT 2022: Korean accelerator explores Singapore's bio startup ecosystem

Korea's Incheon-based startup accelerator MediaU held a global innovation road show MUST.CONNECT Singapore 2022 in Singa...

October 13, 2022 | Thursday | News
Samsung Biologics unlocks additional capacity for production at newest Plant 4

Samsung Biologics, South Korea-based contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has announced that its ...

October 12, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea explores AI support for prostate cancer diagnosis

South Korea-based startup Deep Bio Inc. has announced that it will sign trial purchase agreements with five Korean hospi...

October 11, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Fujifilm to establish subsidiary in South Korea to accelerate cell culture media biz

Japanese firm Fujifilm Corporation has announced the establishment of a local subsidiary in South Korea to accelerate bu...

October 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Vuno's AI-based solution receives medical device certification from Singapore

South Korean startup VUNO has announced that its artificial intelligence (AI)-based fundus reading solution VUNO Me...

September 30, 2022 | Friday | News
Samsung Biologics to launch new platforms for antibody development process

South Korea-based Samsung Biologics, a world-leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is laun...

September 30, 2022 | Friday | News
South Korea-based GC Labs becomes first to obtain US CDC certification

GC Labs, a leading South Korea clinical laboratory, has recently obtained certification of standardization programm...

September 29, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea develops world’s first nanomesh structured electronic skin device

A research team led by professor Lee Sungwon from the Department of physics and chemistry at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute o...

September 28, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea focuses on easier access to medical services

Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) has revamped the official website of Medical Korea, featuring i...

September 20, 2022 | Tuesday | News
South Korea uses 3D bioprinting to engineer organs at scale

A research team at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has developed a method for ...

September 19, 2022 | Monday | News
South Korea-based diagnostic technology firm Chowis makes global leap

With the advent of artificial inelligence (AI) and Big Data in the rapidly expanding beauty and cosmetic market, South K...

September 16, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea establishes novel strategy to tackle Huntington’s disease​

Through an international joint research effort involving ProQR Therapeutics of the Netherlands, Université Grenob...

September 13, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Denmark injects 4 M Danish kroner in Korea's International Vaccine Institute

The Danish Minister for Health, H.E. Magnus Heunicke, recently visited the South Korea-based International Vaccine Insti...

September 2, 2022 | Friday | News

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