Impax to acquire two pharma companies

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Oct, 2014

Singapore: Impax Laboratories announced that it has agreed to buy private pharmaceutical companies Tower Holdings Inc and Lineage Therapeutics Inc for $700 million in cash. The acquisition...Read more

SHL, Taipei university sign MoU to start Swiss apprentice program

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Sep, 2012

Singapore: Taiwan-based drug delivery company, SHL, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) to mark the official start to a Swiss...Read more

Taiwan accuses FDA of fallacious GM foods ad

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 Jun, 2014

Singapore: While consumers are demanding food companies to specify the genetically modified ingredients of the food, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had released an advertisement ...Read more

UK based Ergomed opens drug development services centre in Taiwan

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Apr, 2015

Singapore: UK-based Ergomed providing specialised services to the pharmaceutical industry and the development of new drugs, has opened a new office in Taiwan for clinical research and consu...Read more

Taiwan firm gets FDA nod for ph II trial of gout drug

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 Dec, 2014

Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Pharmaceuticals has received US FDA and Taiwan FDA approval of a protocol for a Phase II clinical trial of its AC-201 controlled-release (CR) tablets for the ind...Read more

Taiwan seeks to attract global investors

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 23 Jul, 2013

Singapore: BioBusiness Asia concluded in Taiwan on July 18, 2013, with a message that the global biotech fraternity needs to get connected to the global value chain. Industrial Technology R...Read more

Taipei firm to offer aerial medical tours

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 02 Jul, 2014

Singapore: Taipei-based healthcare company, Show 101 Royal Health Care, announced its partnership with Aerospace Industrial Development Corp (AIDC) to offer aerial medical tourism services ...Read more

ITC enters consent decree against Apex on ResMed request

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Jul, 2013

Singapore: A US government investigation started at the request of ResMed against Taiwanese manufacturer Apex Medical has resulted in an administrative law judge at the International Trade ...Read more

Taiwan invents 'Smart tooth' to track smoking, drinking

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Sep, 2013

Singapore: Researchers at the National University of Taiwan have developed a new 'smart tooth' that monitors an individual's oral habits by recording gross and minute movement of the jaw. ...Read more

Three new avian flu viral strains detected in Taiwan

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Jan, 2015

Singapore: Amid sporadic avian flu cases still surfacing in Asia, a new strain H5N3 has been now identified by the Taiwan Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine. The vi...Read more

Ssu Cheng Biotech inks a pact with Taiwan COA

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 16 Oct, 2014

Singapore: Taiwan-based Ssu Cheng Biotech has signed an exclusive agreement with the Council of Agriculture (COA) in Taiwan. The pact authorizes SSu Cheng Biotech to use COA's pesticide res...Read more

Taiwan-China to collaborate on new drug discovery

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 05 Sep, 2014

Singapore: The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) recently announced that Taiwan and China have reached a concrete consensus in new drug research and development. According to reports, during ...Read more

ScinoPharm's revenue falls flat in 2014

Taiwan |  Company results | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 04 Feb, 2015

Singapore: Taiwan-based biopharmaceutical firm, ScinoPharm, had a sluggish revenue in 2014, generated $135 million (unaudited revenue) as compared to $167.6 million in 2013 which was record...Read more

Taiwanese children more prone to liver tumors

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 19 Aug, 2014

Singapore: Scientists at the Division of Hematology and Oncology of Taipei Veterans General Hospital's Department of Pediatrics confirmed in a study that Taiwanese children are twice as pro...Read more

Taiwan foundation announces biotech awards

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 22 Dec, 2014

Singapore: The Taiwan Bio-Development Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses to develop the nation's biotechnology sector, recently announced this year biotechnology awards. Th...Read more

Taiwan to adopt 11 healthcare facilites in Sierra Leone

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 06 Apr, 2015

Singapore: In a bid to improve healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone, the Taiwan-based Buddhist Tzu chi Foundation has offered to adopt eleven healthcare facilities in the country. The Foun...Read more

Novartis drug-A game changer for COPD

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 08 Sep, 2014

Singapore: A study presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress at Munich, Germany, by Novartis highlighted that consuming a single dose of Ultibro Breezhaler, reduced the rate of...Read more

TWi completes patient enrollment for gout trial

Taiwan |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 21 Jun, 2013

Singapore: Taiwan-based TWi Biotechnology, has completed the patient enrollment in a phase II trial of AC-201 for Gout Flare Prophylaxis (GFP) during urate-lowering therapy (ULT). This rand...Read more