PharmaJet unites with Genexine to develop DNA vaccine

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Feb, 2018

A South Korean company PharmaJet® is the maker of innovative, needle-free injection technology. The company announced a global license agreement with Genexine, a leading biotherapeutic...Read more

Merck receives Patents from Korea and Israel

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Feb, 2018

Merck, a leading science and technology company and leader in genome editing, announced that the Korean Intellectual Property Office and the Israel Patent Office have each issued notices gr...Read more

Eli Lilly discontinues Ph II trials for arthritis drug

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Feb, 2018

Korea’s Hanmi Pharma recently announced that its partner Eli Lilly has discontinued the clinical study for HM71224, an experimental Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor for the tr...Read more

CHA Biotech receives patent for stem cell culture medium

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Feb, 2018

South Korea based CHA Biotech has acquired a patent for a stem cell culture medium related to preventing skin aging and regenerating it. The patent acquisition relates to the use of t...Read more

Korea's GC Pharm inks a deal with Lee's Pharmaceutical

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Feb, 2018

Korea’s GC Pharma and Lee's Pharmaceutical have joined hands and inked an agreement that grants Lee's Pharm exclusive rights to develop and commercialize GCC-4401C, GC Pharma's i...Read more

Agilent collaborates with Korea Doping Control Center

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Feb, 2018

Agilent Technologies Inc. is a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets. The company has announced that it will collaborate with the Doping Control Center i...Read more

Alkem partners with Dong A to launch anti-diabetic drug

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Feb, 2018

Mumbai-based Alkem Pharma is foraying into the antidiabetic drug market in the country through partnership with South Korean drug maker Dong A to launch the latter&rsquo...Read more

Shire Korea gets approval for hemophilia A treatment

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Feb, 2018

Shire Korea, the local branch of the global biotech pharmaceutical Shire, has received the approval from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for Adynovate, its long-lasting factor VIII gen...Read more

PharmAbcine collaborates with MSD for evaluating cancer therapy

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Feb, 2018

PharmAbcine Inc., a clinical-stage biotech company headquartered in South Korea has entered into a collaborative agreement with MSD (Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., USA), through a...Read more

Vetter introduces South Korea’s pharma and biotech community to meet Company management

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Feb, 2018

In an event at its new branch office attended by key customers and business associates, Vetter’s senior management representatives presented the company’s service portfolio alon...Read more

Singapore, Korea buy stake in Australia fertility clinic

Korea |  News | 1 Comment | 01 Feb, 2018

South Korea's CHA Healthcare Co Ltd and Singapore Medical Group Ltd have together bought a majority stake in Australia's fourth-largest fertility clinic operator, City Fertility C...Read more

Daewoong Pharmaceuticals signs $21 M agreement for Nabota export

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Feb, 2018

South Korea-based bioengineering company Daewoong Pharmaceuticals has signed two contracts worth a combined $21 million to take its botulinum toxin product Nabota to markets in Brazil and E...Read more

South Korean pharma company invests in Ireland

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 29 Jan, 2018

Marking Korea’s first pharma investment in Ireland, the country’s SK Biotek a global life sciences company announced the acquisition of the former Bristol-Myers Squibb API facil...Read more

Korea's Pharma Industry Association appoints a new chairman

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Jan, 2018

According to reports by a leading Korean news portal- Korea Biomedical Review, The Korea Research-based Pharma Industry Association (KRPIA) has elected Avi BenShoshan, the CEO of MSD Korea,...Read more

Merck and IFEZ ink MoU for expanding investment

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 23 Jan, 2018

Merck and the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish the German firm's life science center at the Songdo Bio Cluster. Reclaimed from ...Read more

Seoul tops the list of most clinical trials conducted in a city

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Jan, 2018

Seoul ranks first in the world in number of clinical trials per city. It is meaningful that the city shows a significant gap with Houston of U.S., which took second place in the world. The...Read more

Daewoong Pharmaceuticals gets CFDA nod to start Nabota clinical trials in China

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Jan, 2018

Korea’s Daewoong Pharmaceutical recently announced that it has received China’s regulatory nod for running clinical trials of its botulinum toxin treatment (BTX) type A product,...Read more

KPBMA seeks expanded govt support and funding in 2018

Korea |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Jan, 2018

A news report by Korea’s leading portal The Korean Herald stated that South Korea’s representative biopharmaceutical business body has urged the government for increased funding...Read more