NZ-based diagnostic startup Pictor raises $5 M for product development
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 06 Dec, 2022
New Zealand (NZ)-based startup Pictor, with operations in US and India, has announced a funding round to help accelerate...Read more
CanSino Biologics rolls out inhaled vaccine Convidecia Air in Shanghai
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 01 Nov, 2022
CanSino Biologics has announced that its recombinant COVID-19 vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) for inhalation (Convide...Read more
Singapore authorises Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 30 Sep, 2022
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has authorised Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine on 28 September 2022, for t...Read more
China's BGI donates Huo-Yan Air Laboratory to Thailand
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 20 Sep, 2022
On September 19, 2022, Anutin Charnvirakul, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Health, Dr Satit Pitutecha, Dep...Read more
Australia identifies unique biomarkers of SARS-CoV-2 acute infections, Long COVID
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 21 Sep, 2022
Researchers at the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) at Murdoch University have successfully detected and quanti...Read more
Singapore grants interim authorisation for first bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 14 Sep, 2022
Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has granted an interim authorisation for the use of Moderna’s Omicr...Read more
Australia to focus research on five virus families likely to cause future pandemics
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 30 Aug, 2022
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency,...Read more
Pfizer emerges as leading company in Asia for COVID-19 response
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2022
Pfizer has been ranked first in its COVID-19 response, patient centricity, patient safety and bringing innovative, high-...Read more
Singapore extends use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for kids
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 24 Aug, 2022
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has extended the authorisation of Moderna’s Spikevax COVI...Read more
Long COVID-19 study in Australia identifies potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 23 Aug, 2022
Australia-based Antisense Therapeutics has announced the outcomes from its collaboration to study the neurological aspec...Read more
Mitigate COVID-19 impact on the Construction Industry
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 22 Aug, 2022
The city-state Singapore is currently facing another wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variants, BA.5 an...Read more
USFDA grants EUA to Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 22 Aug, 2022
Novavax has announced that its COVID-19 caccine, Adjuvanted (NVX-CoV2373) has received expanded emergency use autho...Read more
Nuvaxovid gets expanded provisional approval in NZ as COVID-19 booster for adults
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 18 Aug, 2022
US-based Novavax has announced that New Zealand (NZ)'s Medsafe has granted expanded provisional approval for Nuvaxovid (...Read more
Frontier Biotechnologies proposes treatments for acute and prolonged COVID
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 15 Aug, 2022
China-headquartered global biopharmaceutical company Frontier Biotechnologies announced positive results from the Phase ...Read more
South Korea approves Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine for use in adolescents
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 14 Aug, 2022
US-based Novavax, Inc. has announced that partner, SK bioscience, has received a Post Approval Change Application approv...Read more
ADB approves $10 M for COVID-19 vaccines in Bhutan
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 02 Aug, 2022
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $10 million loan to help the Government of Bhutan purchase safe and effe...Read more
Singapore grants interim authorisation for AstraZeneca’s antiviral mAb Evusheld
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 05 Aug, 2022
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore, in consultation with its Medicines Advisory Committee, has, gran...Read more
SK bioscience seeks European approval for COVID-19 vaccine
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 03 Aug, 2022
South Korea-based SK bioscience, a global innovative vaccine and biotech company dedicated to promoting human health fro...Read more