UNAIDS calls for an increase in vaccine research

On HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, 18 May, UNAIDS is calling for an increase in research and investment to find an effective ...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
Dicerna’s hyperoxaluria treatment gets orphan status from FDA

 Singapore- Dicerna Pharmaceutical’s drug recently received an orphan drug status designation for i...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
Ligand Pharma readies $650M convertible debt offering

Singapore- Ligand Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing or acquiring technologies announced...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
Cerus receives $15M government contract

Singapore- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Res...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
FDA approves first non-opioid treatment for opioid withdrawal

Singapore- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved privately held US WorldMeds LLC's Lucemyra (lofexidine hydroch...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
ASLAN Pharma to present two posters on varlitinib at ASCO

Singapore- ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company targeting cancers that are both highly prev...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
Orgenesis, Atvio to present at the WATRM Congress

Orgenesis Inc., a manufacturer, service provider and developer of advanced cell therapies has announced that the Company...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
Qventus receives $30M investment to bring AI to hospital workflows

Healthcare management tech platform Qventus has announced that it landed $30 million Series B funding in a rou...

May 16, 2018 | Wednesday | News
US researchers develop tool to improve diagnostic accuracy

A research team at the University at Buffalo (UB) in the US has developed a new protein analysis tool called IonStar whi...

May 15, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Agilent completes acquisition of Genohm

Agilent Technologies, Inc. has completed the acquisition of Lausanne, Switzerland-based Genohm, a developer of highly di...

May 15, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Organogenesis CEO joins Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Board

Organogenesis has announced that Gary S. Gillheeney, Sr., President and CEO of Organogenesis Inc., has been appointed to...

May 15, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Discngine receives €600,000 funding from Bpifrance

Discngine, a software company specialized in developing applications for life sciences research, has received funding of...

May 14, 2018 | Monday | News
Emergex Vaccines receives grant for universal flu vaccine programme

Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited (‘Emergex’), a biotechnology company pioneering a new approach to vaccine d...

May 14, 2018 | Monday | News
Eli Lilly to buy Armo BioSciences for US$1.6B

Eli Lilly and Co said on Thursday it is willing to buy Armo BioSciences Inc, for US$1.6 billion, an offer of US$50 per s...

May 11, 2018 | Friday | News
FDA says there is shortage of Mylan’s Epipen in US

U.S. regulators said on Wednesday that Mylan NV's EpiPen products are in shortage due to manufacturing delays that are c...

May 10, 2018 | Thursday | News
MRI ‘glove’ provides clear images of hand anatomy

Researchers from NYU School of Medicine have developed a glove-shaped magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detector that can...

May 9, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Openwater Prepares to Build Developer Kits

Openwater is a healthcare company that is revolutionizing and minitiarizing the way we read and write our body and brain...

May 9, 2018 | Wednesday | News
WHO starts its first Cholera vaccine campaign in Yemen

The first vaccine campaign against cholera in Yemen has been started by the World Health Organization (WHO), a year and ...

May 8, 2018 | Tuesday | News