Pilot programme to apply whole genome sequencing for routine cancer care in Korea

US-based Genome Insight, a cancer whole genome platform company, is launching a pilot programme in Ajou University Medic...

September 1, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korean firms lay focus on next-gen CAR-NK cell therapy

South Korea-based GI Cell has announced research and development collaboration for allogenic CAR-NK candidates with HK i...

August 29, 2022 | Monday | News
South Korea-based BIORCHESTRA announces new appointment

BIORCHESTRA, a biotech startup headquartered in Daejeon, South Korea, has appointed Dr. Gabriel Helmlinger (Ph.D., ...

August 25, 2022 | Thursday | News
South Korean firm DxGen Corp lays global focus on diabetes point-of-care testing

US-based Precision Diabetes, Inc. and South Korea's DxGen Corp. have entered in an exclusive agreement in the US to laun...

August 23, 2022 | Tuesday | News
South Korean biotech startup Avelos Therapeutics raises $8 M

South Korea-based innovative biotechnology company specializing in new drug discovery and development, Avelos Therapeuti...

August 23, 2022 | Tuesday | News
South Korean startup AIRS Medical raises $20M for global expansion

AIRS Medical, a healthcare startup based in South Korea, has raised approximately $20M in Series B funding. The rou...

August 22, 2022 | Monday | News
Standigm names Carl Foster as Chief Business Officer

South Korea-based startup Standigm Inc. has announced the appointment of Chief Business Officer Carl Foster. Based ...

August 19, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea deploys AI & 3D bioprinting for diabetes foot and osteoarthritis treatment

South Korea-based ROKIT Healthcare will provide a hyper-personalized medical platform that uses 3D bioprinting and artif...

August 16, 2022 | Tuesday | News
South Korea approves Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine for use in adolescents

US-based Novavax, Inc. has announced that partner, SK bioscience, has received a Post Approval Change Application approv...

August 14, 2022 | Sunday | News
Panacell Biotech begins hunt for long COVID treatment

According to South Korea-based Panacell Biotech, NK cells, exosomes, and brown adipose-derived stem cells are effective ...

August 11, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korean firm develops new CRISPR/Cas technology specific for bacteriophage

iNtRON Biotechnology has developed its unique CRISPR/Cas system customized for the genetic modification of certain bacte...

August 10, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea develops new therapeutic drug for Alzheimer’s disease

Although Aduhelm, a monoclonal antibody targeting amyloid beta (Aβ), recently became the first US FDA app...

August 9, 2022 | Tuesday | News
South Korean startup Vuno receives MFDS certification for electrocardiogram device

South Korea based VUNO, a global medical artificial intelligence solution company, has obtained the Ministry of Food and...

August 3, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea's GenKOre develops new base-editing technology for treating genetic diseases

GenKOre, a biotech startup in South Korea, succeeded in the development of adenine base editors (ABEs) based on its own ...

August 2, 2022 | Tuesday | News
SK bioscience seeks European approval for COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience, a global innovative vaccine and biotech company dedicated to promoting human health fro...

August 3, 2022 | Wednesday | News
South Korea-based ilooda's device wins US FDA approval for treating scars post

Secret Duo of South Korea's ilooda Co., Ltd., which develops, manufactures and sells specialized medical devices to...

July 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
World-class Foot and Mouth Disease vaccine site to come up in South Korea

Argentina-based Biogénesis Bagó, an international biotechnology company focused on animal health and globa...

July 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Baxter launches new diabetic retinopathy screening device in South Korea

US-based firm Baxter has launched Welch Allyn RetinaVue 100 Imager PRO in South Korea, that enables diabetic retino...

July 25, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea's IVI inks MoU with Moderna for vaccine R&D

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and US-based Moderna have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (...

July 21, 2022 | Thursday | News
SK bioscience to manufacture Novavax' COVID-19 vaccine against omicron

South Korea's SK bioscience has extended its partnership with Novavax, a US-based biotechnology company specializing in ...

July 22, 2022 | Friday | News
Samsung Biologics further invests KRW 426 B for Bio Campus 2

Samsung Biologics, a South Korea-based contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has signed a land pur...

July 18, 2022 | Monday | News
Eurofarma to sell SK Biopharmaceuticals' epilepsy drug in Latin America

South Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals has entered into a licensing agreement for Eurofarma, a Brazilian pharmaceutical com...

July 15, 2022 | Friday | News
GenScript ProBio partners with DAAN Bio Therapeutics for novel drug discovery

GenScript ProBio, a global CDMO, and South Korea-based startup DAAN Bio Therapeutics, have entered into a strategic...

July 14, 2022 | Thursday | News
GenScript ProBio signs MoU with ACT Therapeutics to develop new CAR-T cell therapies

GenScript ProBio, a global CDMO, and South Korea-based ACT Therapeutics have entered into a strategic partnership M...

July 13, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea designs AI-based precision medicine technology for immunotherapy response

A team of researchers at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has improved the ...

July 11, 2022 | Monday | News
Korean firms acquire US-based Meridian Bioscience for $1.53 B

US-based Meridian Bioscience, a leading global provider of diagnostic testing solutions and life science raw materials, ...

July 8, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea's Samyang Holdings Biopharma offers new filler for dermatologists

Research results confirm the long-term safety and efficacy of the new Lafullen filler from South Korea-based S...

July 4, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea accelerates vaccine sovereignty by developing domestic COVID-19 vaccines

SK bioscience has announced that ‘SKYCovione,’ South Korea’s first COVID-19 vaccine candidate adjuvant...

July 1, 2022 | Friday | News
Seegene develops PCR test to detect monkeypox virus

Seegene Inc., South Korea-based molecular diagnostics (MDx) company, has developed a PCR test to detect the mo...

June 29, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Can we hear better with skin than ears?

Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the Pohang University of Science a...

June 27, 2022 | Monday | News
Korean startup Lunit commercialises AI solution suite for radiology in Canada

South Korea-based startup Lunit has received commercial approval in Canada for Lunit INSIGHT, the company’s A...

June 23, 2022 | Thursday | News
Waters and BioInfra establish ASEAN Academy for Bioanalysis in Korea

Waters Corporation has announced a collaboration with BioInfra, a pioneering contract research organization (CRO) compan...

June 21, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea brings technology to visualise vascular movements in real-time

A research team at South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has developed an integra...

June 20, 2022 | Monday | News
Boston Scientific buys $230M worth stake in Korean medtech firm

US headquartered Boston Scientific has entered into a definitive agreement with Synergy Innovation to purchase its major...

June 17, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea expands typhoid conjugate vaccine delivery options in public health programmes

A new study jointly conducted by South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and collaborators shows multido...

June 15, 2022 | Wednesday | News
South Korea approves Agilent's diagnostic platform to identify NSCLC patients

South Korea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has approved the Agilent Technologies PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx as a co...

June 15, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea gives new hope to patients suffering from chronic shoulder pain

A research team at Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea has developed a complex tissue platform...

June 13, 2022 | Monday | News
Parse Biosciences inks pact with Molecular Diagnostics Korea

US-based Parse Biosciences, a leading provider of scalable single-cell sequencing solutions, has announced a partnership...

June 7, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korean startups ILIAS Biologics and HK inno.N join hands for new biomedicines

South Korean startup ILIAS Biologics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HK inno.N for joint research to...

June 6, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea designs master’s degree programme to strengthen competitiveness in AI

With the digital transformation accelerating across many industries including healthcare, medical, biotech, finding digi...

June 3, 2022 | Friday | News
Standigm signs MOU with Merck Korea for AI drug discovery research

South Korea-based startup Standigm Inc. has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Merck Kore...

June 2, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea designs self-powered, ‘one-terminal’ tactile sensor for wearable medical devices

Over the past few decades, researchers have developed a wide array of tactile sensors that form the basic platform of an...

May 30, 2022 | Monday | News
Seegene unveils '$12 PCR testing' initiative to help end COVID-19 pandemic

Seegene Inc., South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics (MDx) company, has unveiled a global initiative for ...

May 26, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea, Ethiopia establish collaborating centre for joint vaccine research

South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), established by the...

May 25, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Hanmi FC to invest 10 billion KRW for building facilities for 'high-tech CDMOs'

South Korea-based Hanmi Fine Chemical, a subsidiary of Hanmi Pharmaceutical Group specializing in APIs (Active Pharmaceu...

May 23, 2022 | Monday | News
SK Biopharmaceuticals partners with Cala to fuel innovation in neurology

South Korea-based SK Biopharmaceuticals has announced that together with its parent investment company SK Inc., the two ...

May 23, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea develops tool for studying inflammatory diseases related to COVID-19

Apart from the symptoms associated with COVID-19 infection, it has recently been reported that the coronavirus also lead...

May 20, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea expands collaboration in vaccine development, delivery & training

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), Republic of Korea (ROK),...

May 17, 2022 | Tuesday | News
SK bioscience acquires approval for typhoid conjugate vaccine

South Korea-based SK Bioscience has secured another approval for in-house vaccine. SK Bioscience obtained an export lic...

May 17, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea's LOTTE buys Bristol Myers Squibb's US facility for expanding CDMO biz

South Korean firm LOTTE has agreed to purchase Bristol Myers Squibb’s manufacturing facility in East Syracuse, New...

May 16, 2022 | Monday | News
GenScript ProBio builds up presence in APAC

GenScript ProBio, a global CDMO company from GenScript Biotech Corporation, has announced the opening of a legal entity ...

May 13, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea to open new chapter in world's antiviral drug history

The birth of a universal antiviral drug with a mechanism applicable to all viral infections is approaching. This antivir...

May 12, 2022 | Thursday | News
UK inks agreement with Korea for disease control and prevention

Dr Dame Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), has signed a Memorandum of Understandin...

May 9, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea builds deep learning model to predict adverse drug-drug interactions

The intake of multiple drugs can result in adverse health effects due to unexpected drug-drug interactions (DDIs). Now, ...

May 6, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea develops wireless brain neurochemical system to study Parkinson’s disease

A group of researchers at Korea University have developed an electronic medical system that can be inserted into de...

May 4, 2022 | Wednesday | News
SK bioscience reaches final stage of developing Korea´s first COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea-based SK bioscience and GSK have announced submission of a biologics license application for SKYCovione a re...

May 2, 2022 | Monday | News
South Korean firms lay focus on immune cell therapy

Daewoong Pharmaceutical has signed a joint research and development agreement with UCI Therapeutics (CEO Sooyoung Jung),...

April 29, 2022 | Friday | News
Korean firm GC Biopharma explores use of lipid nanoparticle delivery system in mRNA vaccines

GC Biopharma, based in South Korea, and Canadian firm Acuitas Therapeutics, a company focused on developing lipid nanopa...

April 28, 2022 | Thursday | News
PharmAbcine announces positive results for its novel TIE2-activating antibody in GLP toxicology study

Korea's PharmAbcine Inc., a clinical-stage biotech company focusing on the development of next-generation antibody thera...

April 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Seegene unveils world's first commercialised '3 Ct' PCR assay

Seegene Inc., South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics (MDx) company, has announced the development of the ...

April 27, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Adge Pharma, Cyan Bio advance treatments for rare paediatric diseases in Asian countries

Adge Pharmaceuticals has entered into a license agreement with South Korea-based Cyan Bio, Inc. Cyan will receive exclus...

April 26, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korean firm Vuno partners with Mayo Clinic for AI-based precision oncology

South Korea-based startup Vuno has signed a research agreement with Mayo Clinic in the US. The research agreement, which...

April 25, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea develops COVID-19 detection platform by 'slowing down light'

A research group led by Professor Young Min Song of the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea h...

April 22, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea's LG Chem pushes targeting of global atopic dermatitis market worth KRW 29 trillion

South Korea's LG Chem has announced that its Chinese counterpart TransThera Sciences received the IND clearance fro...

April 21, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korean firm GC buys US-based CDMO BioCentriq to enhance global capabilities

GC corp., the holding (system) company for GC group in South Korea with major operating companies across healthcare se...

April 20, 2022 | Wednesday | News
GeneQuantum and AIMEDBIO collaborate on a first-in-class antibody drug conjugate

China's GeneQuantum Healthcare, a company specializing in site-specific bioconjugation for next generation biotherapeuti...

April 19, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea's Bridge Biotherapeutics to enhance solutions for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Bridge Biotherapeutics, a South Korean clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel drugs for fibros...

April 19, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea puts focus on AI-powered analytic tool for lung cancer immunotherapy

Professor Tony MOK Shu Kam from The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s (CUHK) Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) has...

April 18, 2022 | Monday | News
CytoReason expands reach in Asia, leveraging ML in drug development for Korean drugmakers

Israel's CytoReason, a leading developer of computational disease models for efficient drug discovery and developme...

April 13, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korean firms back US-based Turn Bio for mRNA therapies

South Korea-based Daewoong Pharmaceutical  and HanAll Biopharma have announced expansion of their open collabo...

April 12, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea's OliX Pharmaceuticals identifies target genes for NASH treatment candidate

Korea's OliX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading developer of RNAi therapeutics, has identified effective inhibition o...

April 11, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea promotes vaccine development & delivery, bio-manufacturing training for LMICs

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Republic of Korea, have agreed ...

April 8, 2022 | Friday | News
MolecuLight i:X receives regulatory clearance and reimbursement in South Korea

MolecuLight Inc., the leader in point-of-care fluorescence imaging for real-time detection of wounds containing elevated...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Seegene's Allplex RV Master assay receives Australian TGA approval, European CE-IVD mark

Seegene Inc., South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics (MDx) company, announced that its Allplex RV Master Assay has ...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korean MDx Seegene's Allplex RV Master Assay approved in Australia

Seegene Inc., South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics (MDx) company, has received approval from Austr...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea gears up for global stand in bio-health business

Korea is setting its platform to kick start BIO KOREA, the biggest bio-health convention in Asia to uphol...

April 7, 2022 | Thursday | News
Nanox opens South Korean fabrication Plant

Israel's NANO-X IMAGING, an innovative medical imaging technology company, has opened its new semiconductor chip fabrica...

April 6, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital inks MoU with GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to...

April 5, 2022 | Tuesday | News
CHA Medical & Bio Group opens new cell gene biobank facility in Korea

CHA Medical & Bio Group officially began construction of its Cell Gene Biobank (CGB) facility in Pangyo, South Korea...

March 31, 2022 | Thursday | News
Daewoong Pharmaceutical submits NDA for global new drug Fexuclue Tablets to the Philippines

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical has submitted the New Drug Application (NDA) for a new drug Fexuclue 40 mg Film-co...

March 29, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea Health Industry Development Institute lays focus on vaccine research

The state of Victoria (Australia) and Korea have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on mRNA vacci...

March 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Arum Therapeutics streamlines research data

Arum Therapeutics, a leading pharmaceutical company that specializes in the discovery of new molecules and molecule comb...

March 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea proposes ‘worm-on-a-chip’ device to help diagnose lung cancer

Scientists at Myongji University in South Korea have reported a device that uses tiny worms to detect lung cancer cells....

March 22, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea develops mind-reading system for decoding brain signals

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a mind-reading system for...

March 21, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea shows AI tool as novel biomarker for immunotherapy response

Lunit, a South Korea-based startup has announced the publication of its study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO)....

March 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Seegene appoints Dr. Glen Hansen as Head of Medical Affairs of U.S. subsidiary

Seegene Inc. , South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics company, announced the appointment of Dr. Glen Hans...

March 18, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea designs hair-thin patch for measuring pulse waves

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

March 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
RedHill inks deal worth $6M with Kukbo for COVID-19 drug in South Korea

RedHill Biopharma has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Kukbo Co., a South Korean corporation, for o...

March 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
DEKRA inks MoU with Korea Testing Laboratory

DEKRA has signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL) to develop cooperation opport...

March 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
South Korea lays focus on novel mRNA therapeutics

NuclixBio Inc., a South Korean biotech company that focuses on research and development of mRNA therapeutics, has signed...

March 15, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Innovations in APAC have become cornerstone of future development of IVD

PerkinElmer has made a number of acquisitions in life sciences and diagnostics as well as R&D investments with accel...

March 15, 2022 | Tuesday | Opinion
Everest Medicines offers treatment for primary IgA nephropathy in South Korea

Everest Medicines, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing transformative pharmaceutical p...

March 14, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea develops smart LED contact lenses for treating diabetic retinopathy

A research team at South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in collaboration with Dr San...

March 10, 2022 | Thursday | News
Medical Korea 2022 focuses on future directions of global healthcare industry

Medical Korea 2022 will be held on March 10 and 11 at the Korea International Exhibition and Convention Center (Coe...

March 9, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea reinforces strategic focus on fibrotic diseases

Bridge Biotherapeutics, a South Korean clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel drugs for fibros...

March 8, 2022 | Tuesday | News
South Korea's Aston Sci. raises $22.7 M in Series C

South Korea-based startup Aston Sci. has announced the completion of the Series C funding at a scale of $22.7 milli...

March 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea's Genome and Company partners with Merck for cancer drug trial

Genome and Company, a leading global microbiome anti-cancer drug development company in Korea, has entered into a first ...

March 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea's GC Labs partners with firms in Middle East and Cambodia

GC Labs,  the leading clinical diagnostics company in Korea, has  announced the new lab testing service a...

March 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea's Seegene appoints new CEO for its US subsidiary

Seegene Inc., South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics company, has announced the appointment of Dr. Richard S. ...

March 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea suggests disinfecting COVID-19 with plasma filter

A research team led by Nano-Bio Convergence at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) succeeded in develop...

March 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News

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