Korean firm Celltrion’s mAb candidate effective against Delta variant

South Korean firm Celltrion Group has announced new results from an in vivo efficacy study showing that regdan...

July 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea develops brain-mimicking interface to study neurological diseases

A research team and collaborators at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has revealed a new...

July 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korean firm Seegene develops detection test for delta and delta plus variants

South Korea's biotechnology firm Seegene Inc. has announced the launch of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant diagnostic test ...

July 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea uses machine learning to detect thyroid cancer

A joint research team in Korea, at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), has proposed a new non-in...

July 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea identifies repurposed drugs for COVID-19 treatment via virtual screening assays

A joint research group from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Institut Pasteur Ko...

July 8, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea provides new insights for effective vaccine strategies against COVID-19

An immunology research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has found that m...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Seegene expands diagnostic biz to US in partnership with Bio-Rad

Seegene Inc., a South Korean leading biotechnology firm, has signed a partnership agreement with Ame...

July 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
S.Korea's Y-Biologics to globalize immuno-oncology therapeutics with French partner

The South Korean biotech company Y-Biologics and the French pharmaceutical group Pierre Fabre have entered int...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Standigm to open synthetic research centre for drug development

South Korea-based startup Standigm Inc. and SK Chemicals have announced that they have signed a strategic partnership co...

July 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea inspects companies working with mRNA technology

Korea National Institute of Health (KNIH), Korea's top research center in the field of hygiene and medicine (with Kwon J...

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Samsung to embed Korea's AI-powered algorithms in premium mobile X-ray system

South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) developer, VUNO Inc., has announced a partnership with Samsung Electronics Co....

July 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea's Seegene unveils mobile station for on-site routine diagnostic testing

South Korea-based Seegene Inc. has introduced its new deployable container laboratory "MOBILE STATION", at the...

June 30, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Fresenius Medical Care opens first healthcare training centre in Korea

US-based Fresenius Medical Care, the world's leading provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseas...

June 28, 2021 | Monday | News
Avantor recognized for advancing biopharmaceutical manufacturing and enabling efficiencies in upstream processes

Avantor, a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the life sciences and advan...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
Adjuvant-free Avian influenza vaccines in the works at Korea

Professor Inhwan Hwang and Ph.D. candidate Shi-Jian Song of the Department of Life Science at the Pohang University of S...

June 24, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea presents innovative eye surface reconstruction method

A team of scientists at South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has developed a new...

June 18, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea-India partnership to offer integrated platform for NGS analysis

South Korean firm Celemics has announced a partnership with India-based Strand Life Sciences, a leading precision medici...

June 17, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea lays focus on digital therapy services for neuropsychiatric disorders

Korea's largest telecommunications service provider KT Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding with NeuroSigma, In...

June 15, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea makes medical imaging smarter with big data & deep learning

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science ...

June 10, 2021 | Thursday | News
US-based Cardiac Insight takes health wearable tech to APAC market

Cardiac Insight has signed a marketing agreement with i.SigNal, DreamTech's digital healthcare specialty ...

June 9, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Countries, health partners discuss efforts to curb COVID-19 in WHO South-East Asia Region

The World Health Organization convened a meeting of member countries and health partners to discuss the strengthening of...

June 3, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea's IVI to develop adaptive Ph 1b/2a schistosomiasis vaccine trial

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea has announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has ...

June 3, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea's Samsung Biologics inks manufacturing deal for cancer immunotherapy

Samsung Biologics, the world's leading contract development and manufacturing organization, signed a strategic partnersh...

June 3, 2021 | Thursday | News
Samsung Biologics strengthens mRNA vaccine manufacturing services in Korea

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

June 1, 2021 | Tuesday | News
CEPI injects additional funding of $173.4 M into Korean firm SK bioscience's vaccine project

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and SK bioscience have announced an expanded partnership to d...

May 28, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea's Samsung Biologics to provide fill-finish manufacturing for Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

Moderna and Samsung Biologics, a leading global CDMO providing a fully integrated end-to-end contract development and ma...

May 26, 2021 | Wednesday | News
South Korea explores expansion of COVID-19 vaccine activities

Novavax, Inc., a US-based biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, has...

May 25, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Seegene diagnostic system to diagnose COVID-19 variants at ECCMID

Seegene Inc., a biotechnology firm specializing in molecular diagnostics has once again been recognized for its unique...

May 24, 2021 | Monday | News
Seoul Innovation QuickFire Challenge on Smart Surgery sets in

Johnson & Johnson Medical Korea Ltd. and Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC have announced the launch of the Seoul...

May 24, 2021 | Monday | News
South Korea, Saudi Arabia muster support to tackle infectious diseases

South Korea based International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Future Investment Initiative Institute (FII-I) in Saudi ...

May 21, 2021 | Friday | News
Korean firm Seegene to supply COVID-19 test kits worth $4.8M to Kuwait

Seegene Inc., South Korea's molecular diagnostics firm, will be supplying COVID-19 diagnostic kits worth over&...

May 19, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm MDimune focuses on novel targeted extracellular vesicle-based therapeutics

Navigo Proteins, a protein engineering biotech company generating scaffold protein-based affinity ligands, and MDimune, ...

May 12, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea uses 3D printing for developing artificial diabetic skin

A research team led by Professor Dong-Woo Cho and Minjun Ahn of the Pohang University of Science and Technology or POSTE...

May 11, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea adopts a sustainable system to produce renewable biofuel energy

Korea's Green New Deal Policies focuses on realizing the sustainable growth in economic, social, and environmental secto...

May 10, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea brings world's first pancreatic beta cell regeneration to cure diabetes

Nexturn Bio Inc., a subsidiary of South Korea based Nexturn Bioscience Co., Ltd., has selected its first technological i...

May 10, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea develops world's first vest-like hybrid brace for scoliosis patients

VNTC, a MedTech company based in South Korea, has developed Spinamic, the world's first vest-like wearable hybrid scolio...

May 7, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea's Soulbrain Holdings picks bio-healthcare industry as engine for growth

PixCell Medical, an Israel based innovator of rapid diagnostic solutions at the point-of-care, has announced that S...

May 6, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korean firm Pharmcadd plans expansion in India, US & France

South Korea's Pharmcadd Co. Ltd., a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) and physics-based drug discovery platform,...

May 4, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korean firm Celltrion receives FDA EUA for COVID-19 Ag rapid test

South Korean firm Celltrion has announced that DiaTrust™ (Celltrion DiaTrust™ COVID-19 Ag Rapid Te...

April 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
Samsung Biologics , TG Therapeutics address potential global demand for mAb ublituximab

South Korea based Samsung Biologics, the world’s leading contract development and manufacturing organization and U...

April 26, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea establishes methods for safe cardio pharmacology

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) in Korea has published a guidance on cardiovascular safety pharmacology eval...

April 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
BIO KOREA 2021 preparing to unravel Biohealth market

The 16th edition of BIO KOREA, the reference B2B event for global biotech and health industry professionals interes...

April 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Prestige Biopharma to open vaccine production centre in South Korea

Prestige Biopharma Limited (PBP), based in Singapore, has announced that the company will be introducing a vaccine devel...

April 20, 2021 | Tuesday | News
S. Korea's Peptron licenses global development of ADCs for cancer treatment

Peptron, Inc., a South Korea-based biotech company, and Qilu Pharmaceutical, a China-based pharmaceutical company f...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea's Single-cell analysis services to offer tumor genome profiling to researchers

ROSALIND®, a software leader in extracting meaningful insights from diverse pools of life science data, on Apri...

April 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Korean firm Seegene expands influence in Italy's PCR diagnostic industry

South Korea based Seegene Inc. has said that its Italian subsidiary, the Arrow Diagnostics Srl, has secured the public p...

April 16, 2021 | Friday | News
Korean firm introduces new botulinum toxin for aesthetic market

Aquavit Holdings LLC, with its manufacturing partner is Huons Bio Pharma, has announced that it acquired an exclusi...

April 15, 2021 | Thursday | News
Seegene begins exporting new COVID-19 variant tests worldwide

Seegene Inc., a biotech company specializing in molecular diagnostics, has announced that it has obtained an export perm...

April 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea’s SNU Medicine bags $50K ATMI Grant by Terumo

Singapore's 'Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies' has announced its Asia Pacific Advanced Therapy Manufacturing & Inn...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea pushes R&D of infectious disease therapeutics and vaccines

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Institut Pasteur Korea (IPK) have signed a memorandum of understanding...

April 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Hyundai Bioscience repurposes Niclosamide for treating intractable diseases

A research paper by a South Korean biotech company Hyundai Bioscience that demonstrated the drug repurposing of Nic...

April 9, 2021 | Friday | News
South Korea approves J&J COVID-19 vaccine

South Korea’s Food and Drug Safety Ministry has granted final approval for the use of Johnson & Johnson’...

April 7, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm Nanos transforms existing production facility to launch cancer drugs

Corden Pharma of Germany has entered into a technology alliance agreement with Nanos, based in South Korea, relating to ...

April 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
SK Biopharma seizures/epilepsy drug to launch in Europe

SK Biopharmaceuticals, Co., Ltd., a global innovative pharmaceutical company, announced that cenobamate received marketi...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea invents soft brain implant for treating neuro diseases

Researchers have invented a smartphone-controlled soft-brain implant that can be recharged wirelessly from outside the b...

April 1, 2021 | Thursday | News
Samsung Bioepis continues global market expansion

Biopharmaceutical firm Samsung Bioepis, based in South Korea, has announced its expansion of its global footprint to Aus...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Industry accelerates R&D of innovative antibody drugs

A global leading biotech company GenScript Biotech Corporation has announced that the Company has entered into a strateg...

March 26, 2021 | Friday | News
POSTECH produces artificial lung model using 3D printing

Scientists at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea have succeeded in producing ...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Samsung Biologics to establish Bio Campus 2 in Songdo for further innovation

Samsung Biologics has announced a strong year in 2020 as it reported 1 trillion won in target sales within jus...

March 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea identifies genetic pathway that suppresses neurodegenerative diseases

Nucleocytoplasmic transport (NCT) defects have been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, such as C9ORF72-associated...

March 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
UCLA partners with Yuyu Pharma to study stroke recovery

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the US has formed a research collaboration with South Korea based Yuyu...

March 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Medical Korea 2021 to share insights into latest global healthcare trends

The upcoming Medical Korea 2021, the 11th Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism Conference, is being held virtually to d...

March 12, 2021 | Friday | News
NANO-X Imaging scales up South Korean semiconductor fabrication plant

NANO-X Imaging Ltd, the innovative medical imaging technology company democratising healthcare, has announced the scalin...

March 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Lunit collaborates with Philips to enhance diagnostic suite

Lunit, a leading medical AI startup based in South Korea, has announced its partnership with Philips during th...

March 8, 2021 | Monday | News
GC Pharma to distribute 40M doses of Moderna vaccine in South Korea

GC Pharma has announced that it will support Moderna and the government of the Republic of Korea in the distribution of ...

March 5, 2021 | Friday | News
Korean scientists invent a technique to optimize disinfection in wastewater

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become a global threat today, owing in part to the efficiency with which resistance s...

March 4, 2021 | Thursday | News
Seegene's new COVID-19 test can simultaneously recognize 10 virus variants

Seegene, a South Korea based biotechnology company specializing in molecular diagnostics, has finished the development o...

March 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea to develop world's first microbiome based NASH treatment

On February 25th, 2021, LISCure Biosciences Inc., a South Korean biotech company that focuses on developing bacteri...

March 1, 2021 | Monday | News
Korean, Swiss firms leverage oncology expertise to initiate research collaboration

Genome & Company, a global leading immuno-oncology firm based in South Korea, and Debiopharm, a Swiss-based biopharm...

February 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea unravels strategy behind spontaneous brain circuitry

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have explained how the regularly structure...

February 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Malaysia, Korea collaborate for sandbox programmes, open innovations platforms

Futurise Sdn Bhd (Futurise) has announced the cooperation and collaborative efforts with Korea Development Institute (KD...

February 15, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea approves first anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment

Celltrion Group has announced that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) of South Korea has granted conditional ma...

February 8, 2021 | Monday | News
C-RAD takes surface-guided imaging solutions for radiation therapy to Korea

WITH-Global is a distribution mainly active in the field of diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy. With a team of 27 ...

February 4, 2021 | Thursday | News
Moderna to supply 40M COVID-19 Vaccine doses to Korea

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, on Jan 31, 2021,&...

January 31, 2021 | Sunday | News
Eisai launches Parkinson's disease treatment Equfina in South Korea

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that Eisai Korea Inc., (Eisai's subsidiary in South Korea) has launched the Parkinson's di...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Seegene develops world first COVID-19 variant test

South Korea's biotechnology firm Seegene has developed the world's first COVID-19 diagnostic variant test, capable ...

February 1, 2021 | Monday | News
Yozma Group Korea invests $3.4M in Israeli firm Todos Medical

Todos Medical, an in vitro diagnostics company headquartered in Israel  and focused on distributing compr...

January 29, 2021 | Friday | News
South Korean medical AI firm to assist COVID-19 screening and diagnosis in Indonesia

Lunit, a South Korean medical AI software company, on Jan 27, 2021, announced a partnership with a leading PACS provider...

January 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
GI-Cell, IVI ink MOU to develop next-generation COVID-19 vaccine

GI-Cell, an affiliate of GI-Innovation, a biotechnology company for cell therapy development, signed a memor...

January 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
South Korea approves redness reliever eye drops by Bausch + Lomb

Bausch + Lomb, a leading global eye health business of Bausch Health Companies Inc announced that LUMIFY (brimonidine ta...

January 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Pelican BioThermal partners with Asiana Airlines in South Korea

Pelican BioThermal, the global name in temperature controlled packaging, announces its latest partnership with Asiana Ai...

January 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Korean firm Seegene to advance business in Latin America

South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics firm Seegene Inc. said that it is expanding its business in Latin ...

January 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea invents nanocrystals that eradicate bacterial biofilm

A joint research team from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Ulsan National Institute of Science...

January 20, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Samsung Biologics plans to secure manufacturing facilities overseas

Samsung Biologics  set forth its dynamic growth plan for the next decade at the 2021 Annual JP Morgan Healthcare Co...

January 15, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea invents smallest radar for telehealth monitoring system

Bitsensing, a South Korean radar technology startup, introduces the new mini Healthcare Radar, mini-H, the smallest...

January 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korean firm presents solution package for coping with COVID-19

Hanmi Pharmaceutical, based in South Korea, has announced its global strategy and a solution package for coping wit...

January 13, 2021 | Wednesday | News
PharmAbcine Inc collaborates with LegoChem for R&D of ADCs

PharmAbcine Inc, a clinical-stage biotech company focusing on the development of fully human antibody therapeutics, ...

January 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea introduces world's first smart healthcare device

Korean startup ICON.AI unveiled the World 1st Smart Healthcare Device during CES 2021, the most influential te...

January 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korean firms repurpose FDA-approved drug for rheumatoid arthritis treatment

Standigm Inc, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based drug discovery company and SK Chemicals Co, Ltd, a life science and ...

January 11, 2021 | Monday | News
LG Chem contributes to global polio eradication with new vaccine

South Korean firm LG Chem has announced that its Sabin-Inactivated Polio Vaccine (Sabin-IPV) Eupolio™ received Wor...

January 8, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea designs low cost negative pressure room for COVID-19 patients

Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a low-cost and r...

January 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea develops 3D reconstituted organoids resembling human organs

A research team led by Professor Kunyoo Shin of POSTECH’s Department of Life Sciences has developed multi-layered ...

January 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Cellid inks vaccine research service contract with IVI

Cellid and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea have exchanged a collaborative research agreement to...

January 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea opens new academic-industry collaboration centre for medicine

South Korea's Ajou University’s LINC+ Project Group has opened the Chem-Bio Medicine (CBM) Industrial-Academic Col...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
IVI-SK’s new typhoid conjugate vaccine meets primary endpoints in ph III study in Nepal

Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine, developed jointly by the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and SK bioscience, has m...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
Moderna to supply 40 M COVID-19 vaccine doses to South Korea

Moderna, Inc., a US based biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today confirm...

December 31, 2020 | Thursday | News
Korea secures COVID-19 vaccines via deals with Janssen, Pfizer

The Korean government has concluded deals with global pharmaceutical giants Janssen of Johnson and Johnson and...

December 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Hyundai Bioscience develops injection drug for COVID-19 treatment

Hyundai Bioscience has announced that CNPharm, its major shareholding biotech company, has succeeded in developing 'Poly...

December 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Medit picks Straumann as distributor for intraoral scanners

Medit and Straumann have entered a global distribution partnership for intraoral scanners effective as of Janu...

December 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Pelican BioThermal expands network by partnering with Korean Air Cargo

Pelican BioThermal, the global name in temperature controlled packaging, announces its new partnership with Korean Air C...

December 21, 2020 | Monday | News

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