Fisher&Paykel appoints Atcor's chairman as its director

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 Oct, 2012

Singapore: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has appointed Mr Donal O'Dwyer as an additional non-executive director of the company effective December 01, 2012. "As part of the board's ongoin...Read more

Video message from women leaders in bioscience

New Zealand |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 05 Mar, 2013

We come across several women in the field of biosciences at the graduation and post-graduation level of education. However, there are only those select few who are able to climb the ladder ...Read more

NZ Pharma to supply drug candidate for NIH trial

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Oct, 2012

Singapore: New Zealand Pharmaceuticals (NZP), a manufacturer of pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs, will manufacture DEX-M74 for clinical trial to evaluate it as a treatment for patients...Read more

Which domain of clinical research do APAC CROs focus on?

New Zealand |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Sep, 2013

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conducted in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR), yet again identifie...Read more

BLIS Technologies plans to raise more money

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Sep, 2012

Singapore: The board of BLIS Technologies, a New Zealand-based company, has advised the company to revise its guidance for this financial year ending March 31, 2013, to an operating deficit...Read more

Echo Therapeutics expands agreement with Ferndale

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 12 Jul, 2012

Singapore: US-based Echo Therapeutics, a company developing its needle-free Symphony tCGM System as a non-invasive, wireless, transdermal continuous glucose monitoring system and its Prelud...Read more

New Zealand slashes price of Sanofi arthritis drug

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Sep, 2012

Singapore: PHARMAC, the Pharmaceutical Management Agency in New Zealand, has slashed the price of arthritis drug Arava (leflunomide) in the country. The agency announced the change in price...Read more

Drug developed in New Zealand gets go ahead for trial

New Zealand |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 Aug, 2012

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for PR610, an anticancer "stealth" drug invented in New Zealand, to move forward to human clinical trials through i...Read more

Oramed granted patent in New Zealand

New Zealand |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 May, 2012

Singapore: The New Zealand patent office granted an approval to Oramed Pharmaceuticals for a key patent titled, 'Methods and Compositions for Oral Administration of Exenatide', covering ora...Read more

High school kid named 'neuroscientist of the future'

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Feb, 2013

Singapore: Mr Jackson Huang from the Queensland Academy of Science, Mathematics and Technology, has been named Australia's 'neuroscientist of the future' after he won the Australian Brain B...Read more

BSA-CMR Survey: Oncology is the top therapeutic focus area for CROs in APAC

New Zealand |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Sep, 2013

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conducted in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR), yet again identifie...Read more

BSA-CMR Survey: India, China lead in APAC CRO sector

New Zealand |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Sep, 2013

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conducted in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR), yet again identifie...Read more

Ziena Jalil: NZ, Singapore have much to learn from each other

New Zealand |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 May, 2013

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is New Zealand government's national economic development agency and works to stimulate economic growth by helping to boost export earnings, strength...Read more

NZ value-added dairy product launches in Japan

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 13 Jun, 2013

Singapore: New Zealand-based dairy biotechnology company, Quantec, announced that it has signed a distribution and supply agreement with a major Japanese specialty ingredients company, Kane...Read more

BioSpectrum Asia honors Asia's best in bioscience

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Mar, 2013

Singapore: The fifth BioSpectrum Asia Pacific Awards 2013 were given away at a glittering ceremony at Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore, on March 15, 2013. Industry leaders and heads of compani...Read more

What is the revenue size, range of CROs in APAC?

New Zealand |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Sep, 2013

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conducted in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR), yet again identifie...Read more

Researcher wins Rutherford Medal for brain injury drug

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 22 Nov, 2012

Singapore: New Zealand's highest science and technology honor, the Rutherford Medal, was awarded to chemist Professor Margaret Brimble of the School of Chemical Sciences, The University of ...Read more

CoDa Therapeutics raises $19.8 mn from Russian firm

New Zealand |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Aug, 2012

Singapore: CoDa Therapeutics has raised an additional $19.8 million (NZ$24.5 million) from Russian investment firm RusnanoMedInvest (RMI) under its Series B round. The total funding now sta...Read more