Medivir lowers research costs to focus on clinical development

Singapore - Medivir AB announced plans to reduce activities not critical to its development pipeline of drug candidates ...

October 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Beckman Coulter Diagnostics collaborates with Johns Hopkins Medicine

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a global leader in the clinical diagnostics industry, is embarking on an innovation collabo...

October 17, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Prevent oral infections with bacteria-killing dentures

Candidiasis is a yeast infection that affects many people who wear dentures, causing difficulty eating and drinking &nda...

October 15, 2018 | Monday | News
CPhI recognizes Merck for innovative products

Merck, the vibrant science and technology company, announced that it has won two CPhI Pharma Awards for innovative produ...

October 14, 2018 | Sunday | News
Optina Diagnostics secures C$4 M funding

Montreal based Optina Diagnostics Inc., a leader in early detection of Alzheimer through the use of Artificial Intellige...

October 13, 2018 | Saturday | News
OpenMTA to lead way for global biotech innovation

A new easy-to-use legal tool, OpenMTA, has been launched recently that enables open exchange of biological materials. Th...

October 12, 2018 | Friday | News
Siemens receives FDA approval for new MRI scanner

Siemens Healthineers has secured clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Magnetom Sola MRI scan...

October 12, 2018 | Friday | News
Revance appoints Tobin C. Schilke as CFO

Singapore  – Revance Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing neuromodulators for use in treating aes...

October 11, 2018 | Thursday | News
Universal Robots marks 25,000 cobot milestone

Singapore  – Universal Robots (UR), the pioneer and market leader in collaborative robots (cobots), has cemen...

October 11, 2018 | Thursday | News
FDA lifts clinical hold on gene therapy for sickle cell disease

CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals have announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has lifte...

October 11, 2018 | Thursday | News
Ionis, Roche unite to treat Complement-Mediated Diseases

Ionis Pharmaceuticals announced a new collaboration with Roche to develop IONIS-FB-LRx for the treatment of complement-m...

October 11, 2018 | Thursday | News
Merck offers new platform to enhance bioprocessing

Merck is collaborating with GlycoBac LLC to offer a Sf-9 insect cell line. GlycoBac’s development of a proven rhab...

October 10, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Neurocrine Bio teams up with Jnana for drug discovery

Singapore - Neurocrine Biosciences and Jnana Therapeutics announced that they have entered into a research collaboration...

October 10, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Breathtec acquires Nash Pharmaceuticals

Singapore - Breathtec Biomedical  is pleased to announce that further to its press release of August 2, 2018, it ha...

October 10, 2018 | Wednesday | News
FDA issues new guidance for developers of complex generics

 Singapore - The FDA has released new guidance documents aimed at advancing development of generic versio...

October 10, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Novartis’ crizanlizumab relieves patients from sickle cell pain crisis

Results from a post hoc analysis of the Phase II SUSTAIN study of crizanlizumab, a humanized anti-P-selectin monoclonal ...

October 10, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Bionure appoints Dr. Laurent Nguyen as CEO

Bionure Farma, a spin-off from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona (Spain) specialized in neuroprotection has announced the...

October 8, 2018 | Monday | News
Roche receives US FDA nod for blockbuster Hemlibra

Roche recently announced  that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Hemlibra (emicizumab-kxwh) fo...

October 8, 2018 | Monday | News
Axonics Modulation Technologies readies $86M IPO

Singapore - Irvine, CA-based Axonics Modulation Technologies (AXNX) has filed a prospectus for an $8...

October 8, 2018 | Monday | News
UCL, Pall Biotech collaborate for biotech research and training

Singapore - Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, has progressed a strategic par...

October 8, 2018 | Monday | News
Aptar Pharma brings new respiratory drug delivery device

Drug delivery systems provider Aptar Pharma has introduced a new portable, drug delivery device called PureHale to help ...

October 7, 2018 | Sunday | News
Cambridge Consultants, CATALOG reveal plans for scalable DNA data encoding machine

Singapore - Breakthrough innovation specialists Cambridge Consultants and CATALOG Technologies, a company which dev...

October 4, 2018 | Thursday | News
Exscientia appoints Georgy Egorov as CFO

Exscientia, announced the appointment of Mr Georgy Egorov as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective immediately. ...

October 4, 2018 | Thursday | News
Scythian Biosciences appoints new CEO

Singapore - Scythian Biosciences announced Brady Cobb, a leading voice in the medical cannabis industry, has been appoin...

October 4, 2018 | Thursday | News
J&J abandons partnership for Geron’s cancer drug

Singapore - Johnson & Johnson has dissolved its four-year-old partnership with Geron for cancer drug imetelstat...

October 4, 2018 | Thursday | News
Enesi, Public Health England carry out R&D collaboration

Singapore - Enesi Pharma, an innovative pharmaceutical company developing unique injectable solid dosevac...

October 3, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher now offers vacuum concentrators with custom-made programs

  Chemists, chromatographers and molecular biologists can now benefit from the first-ever line of vacuum concentra...

October 3, 2018 | Wednesday | News
FDA OKs prefilled syringe formulations for Roche's Xolair

Singapore - Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has appro...

October 1, 2018 | Monday | News
Eppendorf announces applications for Award 2019 for young scientists

From October 1, 2018, until January 15, 2019, young researchers not older than 35 years, with an advanced degree, who ar...

October 1, 2018 | Monday | News
Bioconjugation expertise and increased productivity over next 5-years, forecasts a bioLive report

Ahead of the inaugural edition of bioLIVE, the bioprocessing and manufacturing event opening October (9-11) in Madrid, C...

October 1, 2018 | Monday | News
GSK TB vaccine shows promise in phII study

Pharma giant GSK and Aeras reported that GSK’s candidate vaccine significantly reduced the incidence of pulmonary ...

September 30, 2018 | Sunday | News
New drug blocks pancreatic cancer growth

A newly developed drug can prevent the most common type of pancreatic cancer from growing and spreading in laboratory mi...

September 28, 2018 | Friday | News
Vetter Grants Award for Novel Idea at Injection 2.0

Taking part in the Open Innovation Challenge – Injection 2.0, which initially began in June, 18 participants ...

September 27, 2018 | Thursday | News
Alexion to acquire Syntimmune

Alexion Pharmaceuticals and Syntimmune have entered into a definitive agreement for Alexion to acquire Syntimmune, a cli...

September 26, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Breakthrough treatment helps prolong life of metastatic lung cancer patients

Singapore - When lung cancer has spread, or metastasized, to other parts of the body, standard chemotherapy offers ...

September 26, 2018 | Wednesday | News
C-CIT Sensors to provide biosensors for Zurich Project Liver4Life

Liver4Life is a project of Wyss Zurich, a joint research and development center of the ETH Zurich and the University of ...

September 26, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Cancer Genetics inks supply contract with Agilent

Singapore - Cancer Genetics, a leader in enabling precision medicine for immuno-oncology and genomics through molecular ...

September 26, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Senzer's inhaler delivers cannabinoids faster at lower doses

Singapore - The physical uptake of pharmaceutical cannabinoids when inhaled through Senzer's unique respiratory device i...

September 26, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Integer appoints new finance chief

Singapore - Integer Holdings Corporation, a leading medical device outsource (MDO) manufacturer, announced that Jason Ga...

September 26, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Cobra Biologics, GE and CPI team up to advance Gene Therapy

Cobra Biologics (Cobra), an international contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) of biologics and ph...

September 25, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Roche launches blood test for cancer detection

Roche has launched a blood test that can identify 70 of the most commonly mutated genes in solid tumours, as the company...

September 25, 2018 | Tuesday | News
FDA lifts clinical hold on Sarepta's DMD gene therapy program

Singapore - Sarepta Therapeutics, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development ...

September 24, 2018 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher launches single quadrupole mass spectrometer

Chromatographers looking for bold confidence in their samples can now benefit from a single quadrupole mass spectrometer...

September 24, 2018 | Monday | News
Proxima Clinical Research appoints David Novotny as CSO

David T. Novotny was recently named Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Proxima Clinical Research, Inc., a leader in clinica...

September 24, 2018 | Monday | News
Plexis Healthcare Systems and Santéch announce strategic partnership

PLEXIS Healthcare Systems, a global provider of core payer technologies for healthcare claims administration, and Sant&e...

September 21, 2018 | Friday | News
St. Jude, Tessa Therapeutics announce strategic collaboration

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (St. Jude), the U.S. hospital leading the way the world understands, treats ...

September 21, 2018 | Friday | News
WHO calls for urgent action to end TB

Fewer people fell ill and died from tuberculosis (TB) last year but countries are still not doing enough to end TB by 20...

September 20, 2018 | Thursday | News
Novel computational models of human lung show personalized medicine potential

Singapore – Details of novel computational models of the human lung have been presented at the 10th International ...

September 20, 2018 | Thursday | News
Lonza expands Ibex™ solutions for complete product lifecycle in one location

Lonza is one of the world's leading and most-trusted suppliers to the pharmaceutical, biotech and specialty ingredients ...

September 20, 2018 | Thursday | News
Emergex signs MoU with Fiocruz to develop viral vaccines

Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited (Emergex), a biotechnology company pioneering a new approach to synthetic vaccine devel...

September 20, 2018 | Thursday | News
IME Medical Electrospinning establishes new facility for regenerative medicine

Medical Technology company IME Medical Electrospinning, developer, producer and scientific partner in the field of biome...

September 20, 2018 | Thursday | News
CISCRP releases a video to improve diversity in clinical research

The Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP), a Boston-based nonprofit organization,...

September 19, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Neurimmune achieves milestone with Ono Pharmaceutical

Neurimmune has announced the achievement of a key preclinical milestone in the ongoing collaboration with Ono Pharmaceut...

September 18, 2018 | Tuesday | News
New AI tool accurately identifies lung cancer type

Singapore - A new computer program can analyze images of patients' lung tumors, specify cancer types, and even identify ...

September 18, 2018 | Tuesday | News
BioCity wins contract to provide support to Scottish companies

Life sciences incubator, BioCity, has won a contract tendered by Scottish Enterprise to provide specialist support and a...

September 18, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Canadian researchers to convert any blood group to Type O

A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia, Canada has isolated an enzyme in the gut that reliably co...

September 18, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Accenture, Merck, Amazon partner to advance drug innovation and research

Accenture and Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS),...

September 18, 2018 | Tuesday | News
NIH to accelerate genetic therapies for sickle cell disease

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the launch of a new initiative to help speed the development of cu...

September 17, 2018 | Monday | News
Rostec to build unique oncology treatment centre in Russian Far East

State Corporation Rostec and the administration of the Primorsky Krai, a federal subject in the Russian Far East, have s...

September 14, 2018 | Friday | News
Cigna launches $250 M venture fund

Health services organization Cigna has launched Cigna Ventures, a corporate venture fund with an infusion of $250 millio...

September 14, 2018 | Friday | News
IFC invests $40 M in Fullerton Health

Singapore – Fullerton Healthcare Corporation announced that its wholly owned subsidiaries, Fullerton Health P...

September 13, 2018 | Thursday | News
Systech, FarmaTrust to deliver foolproof pharma Blockchain solution

Systech, a global technology leader in brand protection and product authentication, and FarmaTrust, a leader in pharmace...

September 12, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Manchester team develops non-antibiotic drug against TB

A group of scientists at the University of Manchester, UK has developed the first non-antibiotic drug to successfully tr...

September 12, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Genesys Spine launches AIS-C Stand-Alone System

Genesys Spine is pleased to announce the FDA clearance of our latest product line, the AIS-C Stand-Alone System. The AI...

September 11, 2018 | Tuesday | News
BloodCenter awarded $5 million NIH glycosciences grant

Singapore - BloodCenter of Wisconsin, part of Versiti, is among four academic and research centers which will recei...

September 10, 2018 | Monday | News
UK regulator declines Roche MS drug

Singapore - The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence rejected Roche's OCREVUS (ocrelizumab) for p...

September 10, 2018 | Monday | News
Medivir appoints new CMO

Singapore - Medivir AB announced it has appointed Linda Basse as Chief Medical Officer effective October ...

September 10, 2018 | Monday | News
Oryzon gets approval for conducting Phase IIa trial of Vafidemstat

Oryzon Genomics, a public clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leveraging epigenetics to develop therapies in diseas...

September 10, 2018 | Monday | News
Cytogel Pharma brings Alan W. Dunton on Board

Dean Maglaris, CEO of Cytogel Pharma has announced that Alan W. Dunton, M.D. has been named to the Board of Cytogel.&nbs...

September 10, 2018 | Monday | News
Samsung opens new AI centre in New York

Samsung Electronics is all set to open a new artificial intelligence (AI) research centre in New York City, U.S., to str...

September 10, 2018 | Monday | News
LimaCorporate to Expand Digital Footprint in Orthopaedics

LimaCorporate, a pioneer and leader in a 3D printing of Orthopaedic implants, announces the milestone-based acquisition ...

September 7, 2018 | Friday | News
HBA, Healthcare Companies partner for Gender Parity

The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) has announced that twelve prominent healthcare and life science c...

September 7, 2018 | Friday | News
Ex-Amgen execs launch $320M Life Science venture fund

Westlake Village BioPartners, a new venture firm exclusively focused on investing in life sciences has announced the lau...

September 7, 2018 | Friday | News
AGC Biologics increases manufacturing capacity at Denmark

AGC Biologics, a contract development and manufacturing organization specializing in the clinical and commercial manufac...

September 7, 2018 | Friday | News
Curetis to use AI for detecting microbial infections

Ares Genetics, a division of German molecular diagnostics company Curetis, has initiated the development of a new diagno...

September 7, 2018 | Friday | News
Active Biotech regains rights of laquinimod from Teva

Active Biotech has announced that it regains the global development and commercialization rights to laquinimod from...

September 6, 2018 | Thursday | News
Agios, Celgene terminate partnership for developing cancer treatment

 Singapore - Agios Pharmaceuticals and Celgene have mutually agreed to terminate their collaboration and ...

September 6, 2018 | Thursday | News
Pfizer receives Breakthrough Therapy designation for inhibitor drug

Singapore - Pfizer announced its investigational oral Janus kinase 3 (JAK3) inhibitor PF-06651600 received Breakthr...

September 6, 2018 | Thursday | News
Nightingale Health to analyze largest blood-based study in Latin America

Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized blood biomarker technology for studying chron...

September 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
RxHealth raises $1.8M seed round, launches Bulk Prescription

Digital medicine platform Rx.Health, a Mount Sinai Health System spinoff and provider of RxUniverse has recently announc...

September 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Merck launches Next-Gen Tech for intensified drug production

Merck, the vibrant science and technology company, has launched three new products to help biomanufacturers navigate the...

September 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Tabula Healthcare acquires Mediture and eClusive

Singapore - Tabula Rasa HealthCare has acquired Mediture and eClusive, a leading electronic health record solu...

September 5, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Zebra introduces new healthcare specialization program for channel partners

Singapore –Zebra Technologies Corporation, an innovator at the edge of the enterprise with solutions and partners ...

September 4, 2018 | Tuesday | News
US team develops tool to identify disease-carrying mosquitoes

A team of researchers at the University of Texas has developed a new diagnostic tool to identify a species of mosquito t...

September 4, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Global orphan dermatology products market to beat $6B by 2024

The global orphan and rare dermatology premium products market is expected to grow rapidly from $1.64 billion in 2017 to...

September 3, 2018 | Monday | News
Sartorius sets up Life Science Factory for startup entrepreneurs

With its newly founded, independent Life Science Factory, Sartorius, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceu...

August 31, 2018 | Friday | News
TB Alliance Launches Clinical Trial for New TB drug

TB Alliance, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to finding faster-acting and affordable drug regimens to fight...

August 31, 2018 | Friday | News
Roche to create industry-ready graduates

Roche Diagnostics and the University of Indianapolis are partnering to create a custom talent pipeline for biomedical eq...

August 30, 2018 | Thursday | News
SOTIO acquires Cytune Pharma

SOTIO, a biotechnology company owned by the PPF Group, announces today the completion of the acquisition of Cytune Pharm...

August 30, 2018 | Thursday | News
ImaginAb, CPDC enter into an agreement

ImaginAb, Inc., an immuno-oncology imaging company, and Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC), a Can...

August 30, 2018 | Thursday | News
Are you Ready for EU FMD? Urgency, Consistency and Planning are Key

Singapore - In February 2019, the Delegated Regulation to the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) comes legally into for...

August 29, 2018 | Wednesday | News
CytoDyn signs definitive agreement to acquire Prostagene

Singapore – CytoDyn, a biotechnology company developing a novel humanized CCR5 monoclonal antibody for multiple th...

August 28, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Urovant licenses novel gene therapy for overactive bladder

Singapore - Urovant Sciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for urologic co...

August 28, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Patrys, Walter and Eliza Hall awarded grant

Singapore - Patrys Limited and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research have recently been awarded a...

August 28, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Eisai announces long-term cardiovascular outcomes data for anti-obesity Agent

Eisai Inc. recently announced that results from the CAMELLIA-TIMI 61 cardiovascular (CV) outcomes trial in patients trea...

August 28, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Study reveals reasons of death after non-cardiac surgery

The main reasons why people die after non-cardiac surgery are revealed in a study of more than 40,000 patients from six ...

August 28, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Researchers find new blood clot prevention strategy

Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Professor Alex C. Spyropoulos, MD, has uncovered an anticoagulant treatment str...

August 27, 2018 | Monday | News
BHF launches £30 M funding for cardiovascular research

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has launched the Big Beat Challenge, a unique research funding award that will bring ...

August 27, 2018 | Monday | News
Shire receives USFDA nod for TAKHZYRO

Shire, the leading global biotechnology company focused on rare diseases, has announced that following priority review, ...

August 27, 2018 | Monday | News
GT Biopharma appoints David Cardino as VP, Finance

GT Biopharma Inc. (GTBP) an immuno-oncology biotechnology company focused on innovative treatments based on the company'...

August 24, 2018 | Friday | News

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