PerkinElmer receives CE mark for multi-analyte respiratory panel including COVID-19

PerkinElmer, Inc. has announced that its PKamp™ Respiratory SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Panel has received cl...

October 27, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Avidity Science expands biomedical research solutions

Avidity Science, a leader in water purification and delivery, control and monitoring and service solutions for the ...

October 27, 2020 | Tuesday | News
PerkinElmer's immunoassay disrupts SARS-CoV-2 spike protein/ACE2 interaction

PerkinElmer, Inc. has announced that a research team at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences&nb...

October 22, 2020 | Thursday | News
Stryker unveils industry's first completely wireless hospital bed

Stryker, one of the world's leading medical technology companies based in the US, has announced the global launch of the...

October 20, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Cancer study leverages proteomics profiling to drive precision medicine advancements

In line with its commitment to delivering the promise of proteomics to improve human health, Thermo Fisher Scientific ha...

October 20, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Pivotal trends propelling mHealth market growth in APAC along with US & EU

Rapid expansion of digital healthcare for the provision of delivery, medical support, and intervention through mobile te...

October 20, 2020 | Tuesday | Analysis
Strong profitable growth at Sartorius

 Nine-month results: Order intake1 up 37.8 percent; sales revenue up 25.2 percent; underlying  EBITDA1 margi...

October 20, 2020 | Tuesday | Company results
Versantis receives FDA RPDD for treatment of urea cycle disorders

Versantis AG, a clinical-stage company developing novel therapies for orphan liver diseases based in Switzerland, has re...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen test to support high-volume testing of COVID-19 suspects

Roche announced on 13 Oct 2020 that it intends to launch a high-volume SARS-CoV-2 Antigen test as an aid in th...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
GCC states Aster DM Healthcare honored for its CSR and COVID-19 efforts

Aster DM Healthcare, the largest private healthcare service providers operating in multiple GCC states has bee...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Lilly reports reduced recovery time in critically ill COVID-19 patients with Baricitinib

US based Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte shared additional data showing baricitinib in combination with remdesivir...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | News
SII to produce 200 million COVID-19 vaccines doses for India and LMICs in 2021

A further collaboration among the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volu...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
EU secures 400 million doses of Janssen’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

  Johnson & Johnson on 8 Oct 2020 announced that the European Commission (EC), acting on behalf of the Europea...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
Development of CRISPR/Cas9 method for genome editing receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to Emmanuelle Charpentier...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
HelpMeSee launches revolutionary technology to address global cataract crisis

HelpMeSee, the not-for-profit global campaign to end cataract blindness, on 9 Oct 2020 announced a landmark achieve...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
Frost & Sullivan estimates $1.4B investment in 2020 for mental health management

Isolation and loneliness due to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused stress, anxiety, and depression, generating a signific...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
CEPI establishes global centralized COVID-19 vaccine candidates assessment network

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in Norway has announced partnerships with five clinical sampl...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
Transgene, NEC, BostonGene collaborate for ovarian and head & neck cancers trials

Transgene, a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, a leader...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Research on thirst wins 2020 Eppendorf & Science prize

The American scientist Christopher Zimmerman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute in Prin...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Mercy Ships announces world's largest NGO hospital ship

US-based Mercy Ships that uses hospital ships to deliver free, world-class healthcare services, capacity building, and s...

October 6, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Hepatitis C virus discovery gets Nobel Prize 2020 in Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medic...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News
Healthcare consulting firm Nordic expands its reach to Europe and Asia

Nordic, a top-rated healthcare consulting firm, on 2 Oct 2020 announced its acquisition of Tasman Global, a healthc...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News
APAC Health and Finance Ministers commit to building stronger health systems

Building on the learnings from the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, in mid-September, Ministers of Health and Fin...

October 2, 2020 | Friday | News
GVN's virus experts to identify promising advanced strategies to battle COVID-19

The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of the world's leading medical and basic virology research centers working t...

October 1, 2020 | Thursday | News
J&J initiates global Ph 3 trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Johnson & Johnson has announced the launch of its large-scale, pivotal, multi-country Phase 3 trial (ENSEMBLE) for i...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
The Lancet announces editorial policy changes post HCQ episode

The publication and subsequent retraction in June, 2020, of the article 'Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) or chloroquine wi...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Novel, agile & omnichannel approach from pharma companies can structure a futuristic healthcare system

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the traditional business models of companies. While digital transformation has been ...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | Opinion
Dr. Sven Abend appointed to the Management Board of GELITA AG

GELITA AG, the global market leader in the field of gelatine and collagen peptides, appoints Dr. Sven Abend to the Execu...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Fitbit receives regulatory clearance in US & Europe for ECG app

US-based Fitbit has recently received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Oxford vaccine AZD1222 resumes clinical trial

Oxford university and AstraZeneca are to resume the international clinical trial of their proposed coronavirus vaccine c...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Cytiva invests $500M for global capacity expansion

Cytiva, a global life sciences leader, is expanding its manufacturing capacity and hiring personnel in key areas to supp...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
'Building a resilient healthcare system for post-COVID world': Expert Opinion

“The post COVID-19 world will see an influx of information and research to cope with evolving healthcare needs. Th...

September 11, 2020 | Friday | Opinion
Merck announces €59 M expansion of manufacturing capabilities

Merck has announced a € 59 million expansion of its Highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPI) and&nbs...

September 11, 2020 | Friday | News
"Uncovering the Role of Digital Technology in Tackling Covid-19", report by Rockefeller

The Rockefeller Foundation and ACCESS Health International on 9 Sep 2020 launched a new report on the important rol...

September 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca puts Ph III trials on hold for Oxford COVID-19 vaccine

AstraZeneca has temporarily put on hold the Phase III study of the University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine following an un...

September 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Inovio partners with Thermo Fisher to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine

INOVIO, a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect peop...

September 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Sirtex Medical invests in Nanospectra Biosciences

Sirtex Medical, a leading manufacturer of targeted liver cancer therapies in the U.S., Australia, Europe ...

September 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan signs MoU with US on health cooperation

Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare announced signing of its first Memorandum of Understanding on Health Cooperation w...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
FDA broadens EUA for Veklury (remdesivir) for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration broadened the scope of the existing emergency use authorization (EUA) for the drug...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
ROQU Group launches world-first health passport digital platform

The Irish-based ROQU Group has announced the pilot launch of Health Passport, a world-first digital platform designed to...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
Novotech receives "2020 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific CRO Company of the Year’

Novotech, the largest biotech specialist CRO in the Asia-Pacific region, was awarded the ‘2020 Frost & Su...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Abbott's COVID-19 antigen test receives FDA emergency use authorization

Abbott, a global healthcare leader recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued E...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Rare Genomics Institute BeHEARD Challenge Awards 21 Rare Disease Grants

The Rare Genomics Institute (RG) announced the winners of the 2019-2020 BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Res...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
Global surgical sutures market to reach $5.1 B by 2027

The global market for surgical sutures estimated at US$3.9 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a r...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Intravacc, Therapyx develop world's first prophylactic gonorrhea vaccine

Dutch firm Intravacc, a global leader in translational research and development of viral and bacterial vaccines, ha...

August 25, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Sonora Quest collaborates with Healthcare Leaders of the US

Sonora Quest Laboratories, the US-based a joint venture between Banner Health and Quest Diagnostics and the market ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
PerkinElmer launches Modular and Scalable explorer™ COVID-19 Workstations

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced the launch of a series o...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
PerkinElmer launches explorer™ Workstations for SARS-CoV-2 Testing

PerkinElmer offers complete workflow solutions including reagents, instrumentation, and consumables for the de...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
PerkinElmer enhances hand sanitizer analyzer for quick methanol detection

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced that its Hand ...

August 18, 2020 | Tuesday | News
CTS Bioprocessing acquires Sani-Tech West Companies

CTS Bioprocessing, a leading vertically-integrated player in the single-use bioprocessing technology space in the US, is...

August 15, 2020 | Saturday | News
WHO-sponsored Covid-19 tool 'ACT-Accelerator' has shown results: Tedros

In April 2020, WHO launched access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, as new, groundbreaking global collaboration to a...

August 14, 2020 | Friday | News
SCHOTT AG launches pharma vials with 2 billion doses capacity for COVID-19 vaccines

German glass manufacturing giant SCHOTT AG is supporting the world’s fight against COVID-19 with vials capable of ...

August 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Allscripts enables independent software developers to develop healthcare IT services

Allscripts, a global leader in healthcare IT, cultivates a community-oriented approach to healthcare technology software...

August 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
SCMP’s China Healthcare Report reveals World’s Second-Largest Healthcare Market

South China Morning Post announced on 13 August 2020 the release of its inaugural China Healthcare Report that...

August 13, 2020 | Thursday | News
Pfizer inks agreement with Gilead to manufacture remdesivir

Pfizer Inc. has announced a multi-year agreement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. to manufacture and supply Gilead’...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Waters Corp names Dr Udit Batra as President & CEO

Waters Corporation has announced that Udit Batra, Ph.D. has been named the Company’s President and Chief Executive...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
J&J to produce 100M investigational COVID-19 Vaccine Doses for U.S.

Johnson & Johnson on 5 August 2020 announced it's Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies have entered into an agreeme...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
TB Alliance announces EC authorisation of new treatment for DR-TB

Pretomanid, a novel compound developed by the non-profit organization TB Alliance, has been granted a conditional market...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
3t Energy Group launches world’s most technologically advanced platform

The world’s most technologically advanced, cloud-based workforce management and training platform Transform is bei...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi, GSK to supply up to 300 M COVID-19 vaccine doses to EU

Sanofi and GSK are in advanced discussions, with the European Commission (EC) for the supply of up to 300 million doses ...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
COVID R&D Alliance announces first patients enrollment in I-SPY trial

Recently, members of the COVID R&D Alliance AbbVie, Inc. (ABBV), Amgen Inc. (AMGN), and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Lt...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Azelis releases first sustainability report as a testimony of global sustainability efforts

Azelis, a leading distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients, on 3 August 2020 released its first...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
WHO introduces new COVID-19 law lab

The COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help stat...

July 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
"China tops Asia-Pacific M&A deal activity during Q2 2020": GlobalData

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal activity in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region remained inconsistent during second q...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Evonik brings Jerod Price on board

German firm Evonik Industries is pleased to welcome Jerod Price to the Evonik Health Care team. Price has join...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
COVID-19 Vaccines Test Safe & Effective by China & UK teams: the Lancet

The two leading vaccine candidates CanSinoBIO of China and AZD1222 of UK have proven the safety and efficacy a...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
PerkinElmer Releases New Dried Blood Spot Based COVID-19 Serology Test

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, on 21 July 2020 announced th...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
PerkinElmer launches open access COVID-19 data dashboards

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced that it has launched two...

July 27, 2020 | Monday | News
IQVIA collaborates AstraZeneca to support potential COVID-19 vaccine development

IQVIA™, on 14 July 2020 announced its collaboration with AstraZeneca to accelerate the development of a potential ...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Thermo Fisher further strengthens global response to COVID-19

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, continues to expand global capacity and capabilities...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
IQVIA, JDRF to improve understanding of T1D with Real World Data

IQVIA™ has announced it is joining forces with US based JDRF, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabe...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher, First Genetics to develop next-gen sequencing based diagnostics in Russia

Thermo Fisher Scientific and First Genetics JCS, a manufacturer of diagnostic equipment and IVD kits intended to ad...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
New rapid molecular TB test to detect drug resistance

The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) and US based Cepheid, Inc, have announced the launch of the new Xpe...

July 20, 2020 | Monday | News
ISPE releases "ISPE Good Practice Guide: Critical Utilities GMP Compliance" guide

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) announced the release of its latest guide,&nbs...

July 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
3M, MIT building rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19

To help the world respond to COVID-19, US based 3M and researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are te...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News
International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) forms Eurasian Economic Union (Eurasia) Affiliate

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) announced today the formation of the new ...

July 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech to manufacture up to 100 M doses by 2020 end

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced that two of the companies’ four investigational vaccine candi...

July 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
NIH launches clinical trials network to test COVID-19 vaccines

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health in the US, ...

July 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Pharma giants to refocus on novel antibiotics market with $1B venture fund

On 9 July 2020, a group of pharmaceutical companies along with Pfizer, Merck (KGaA and the American Merck), Eli Lilly, N...

July 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
FDA approves Roche’s Phesgo for HER2-positive breast cancer

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's Phesgo™, a fixed-dose combination of Perjeta® ...

July 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BD launches rapid Ag test to detect SARS-CoV-2 in 15 mins

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has announced that the U.S. Food and Dr...

July 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
World’s largest conference on HIV/AIDS, "AIDS 2020: Virtual" happening from 6-10 July

Asia Pacific has long been battling a debilitating and complex epidemic – HIV/AIDS. In 2018, UNAIDS reported that ...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | Opinion
Freyr Launches COVID-19 Web Platform for Manufacturers

Freyr, a leading global Regulatory solutions and services company, on 1 July 2020 announced the launch of a powerful web...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Sanofi, Translate Bio to develop mRNA vaccines across all infectious disease areas

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, and Translate Bio, a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) th...

June 29, 2020 | Monday | News
PerkinElmer, ASH to combat sickle cell disease in Africa

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader committed to innovating for a healthier world, has announced a collaboration with the...

June 22, 2020 | Monday | News
Docquity organises SEA's First and Largest Virtual Healthcare Convention

Docquity, a breakthrough "collaboration and learning" platform for medical professionals and The Philippine Colle...

June 17, 2020 | Wednesday | News
FIND supporting rapid diagnostic tests for malaria & COVID-19

The Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) and US based Scanwell Health announced a new partnership for d...

June 17, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BioNTech secures $112.55M for COVID-19 vaccine production

Gernam firm BioNTech SE closed USD112.55 million debt financing agreement to support the development of the company&rsqu...

June 16, 2020 | Tuesday | News
FDA issues EUA to first next gen sequence test for COVID-19

FDA has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to American company Illumina, Inc., for the first COVID-19 diagnosti...

June 15, 2020 | Monday | News
Moderna advances Late-Stage development of mRNA-1273 Vaccine against COVID-19

Moderna, Inc. announced on 11 June 2020 about progress on the late-stage development of mRNA-1273, the Company&rsqu...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
J&J accelerates COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has announced that through its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies (Janssen) it has ac...

June 12, 2020 | Friday | News
A novel method protects vaccines from heat degradation at RT for 3 yr

Heat degradation of the proteins in vaccines render these expensive and precious biomedical products ineffective. Scient...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
Jan Glass is OPTIMA's new CFO

Jan Glass succeeded Dr. Juergen Kuske as Chief Financial Officer of the Optima Group on May 1, 2020.  As a result, ...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Merck expands base for liquid crystal windows biz

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced a strategic partnership with US based Guardian Glass to c...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Chances of SARS-CoV-2 carrier not showing symptoms is very low- WHO

Transmission of the novel coronavirus by people who don’t develop symptoms is “very rare,” the Wo...

June 10, 2020 | Wednesday | News
OWEAR release Open Source Software and Datasets Database for its website

Shimmer Research, a global leader in wearable technology for research applications, today announced that the Open Wearab...

June 9, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Novavax Expands Large-Scale Global Manufacturing Capacity

Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, o...

June 1, 2020 | Monday | News
BIO kick-starts digital conference on COVID-19 R&D programs

The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the largest trade organization to serve and represent the eme...

June 7, 2020 | Sunday | News
World’s smallest heart pump ready for human trial

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved of the world’s smallest heart pump. The regulato...

June 11, 2020 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca's cancer drug gives positive results in COVID-19 patients

Results published in Science Immunology showed that Calquence (acalabrutinib), a Bruton’s tyro...

June 9, 2020 | Tuesday | News

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