Merck KGaA kickstarts two-day APAC virtual conference on "Lessons from a Pandemic"

A 2-day virtual event organized by Merck KGaA, across the Asia Pacific region aims to serve as a platform to share scien...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
Beximco inks COVID-19 vaccine pact with Serum Institute of India

Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited (BPL) in Bangladesh and the Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd (SII), have announced an a...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
DSG, Bestat partner in building COVID-19 clinical trials in Singapore

US based DSG, Inc., a global leader of eClinical software solutions and services for the life sciences industry along wi...

August 28, 2020 | Friday | 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
HKBN unveils UV-C disinfection to fight COVID-19

HKBN Enterprise Solutions has announced the launch of innovative, one-stop disinfection solutions to help companies main...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Celltrion initiates Ph I trial for COVID-19 drug in Korea

Celltrion Group has announced that the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has approved the company’s I...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
India, Russia liaise to manufacture Sputnik V vaccine in India

On 25 August 2020, Indian Health Ministery announced that a dialogue has been exchanged between India and Russia on...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
OTSAW tests first live coronavirus sample using disinfection robot

Singapore based OTSAW has built the world's first successfully laboratory tested human coronavirus exterminating machine...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Seoul Viosys promotes violeds to sterilize coronavirus

South Korea based Seoul Viosys, is promoting new Violeds technology solution, the world’s first ultraviolet LED te...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore develops highly sensitive COVID-19 antibody test

Singapore based biomedical firm Restalyst has developed a COVID-19 antibody test, COVID19N-REAAD™, which will be i...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
AnteoTech develops high-sensitivity 15-min COVID-19 antigen test

Brisbane based AnteoTech Ltd has successfully developed proof-of-concept COVID-19 antigen and Flu A&B point-of-care ...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
KT Corp develops AI-based COVID-19 research

KT Corp., South Korea's largest telecommunications company, is developing a COVID-19 infection risk assessment...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
Malaysia detects 10x infectious coronavirus strain D614G

Malaysia has detected a strain of the new coronavirus that’s been found to be 10 times more infectious than the st...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
Taiwan approves first COVID-19 vaccine for human trials

For the first time ever, Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given conditional approval for the experimental...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
AI accelerates drug repurposing to find potential COVID-19 therapies, says GlobalData

Out of all the different approaches available to find new therapies to treat COVID-19, drug repurposing is one of the fa...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | Analysis
Achiko extends COVID-19 ecosystem platform in Indonesia

Headquartered in Switzerland, Achiko AG (ACHI) has recently announced the deployment of Teman Sehat to a further, extend...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
South Korean church donates plasma worth $83B for COVID-19 cure

At a time when the entire world is reeling under the impact of COVID-19, members of Shincheonji Church from South Korea ...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan studies inhibitory effect of hydroxy radicals on coronavirus

Panasonic Corporation has announced that it, in partnership with Mayo Yasugi, Associate Professor, Department of Ve...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
South East Asia benefits from soaring gloves business

With the Chinese products not being utilized by some of the countries, the focus has now been shifted to the other South...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia to supply Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for free

Australia has inked an agreement with British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to supply Australians with the ...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Novavax, SK Bioscience announce COVID-19 vaccine collaboration

US based Novavax, Inc., a late stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious di...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Yale School receives FDA nod for COVID-19 saliva test

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Yale School of Public Health fo...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia approves COVID-19 test by Co-Diagnostics

US based Co-Diagnostics, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, patented platform for the development of d...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Japan picks Daiichi Sankyo for COVID-19 vaccine supply

Daiichi Sankyo Company has announced that it was selected by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan to be a...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Hong Kong discovers liver injury in COVID-19 patients

Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) have recently conducted a ...

August 12, 2020 | Wednesday | 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
Novavax, Takeda to develop COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Japan

Novavax Inc. (NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company headquartered in the US developing next-generation vaccines for ...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
"Empowering APAC healthcare delivery framework through smart innovations"

COVID-19 has exposed the inadequacies in the healthcare industry which is now evolving through vigorous transformation. ...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | Opinion
Australia provides mental health support to tackle COVID-19

The Australian Government is providing 10 additional Medicare-subsidised psychological therapy sessions for Australians ...

August 10, 2020 | Monday | News
"Transitioning to future with stronger APAC healthcare ecosystem"

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic plaguing countries worldwide has created unprecedented change for the global economy, espe...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | Opinion
Regulations and geopolitics themes for Japanese companies to reduce dependence on China

Regulations, China Impact and Geopolitics were the top themes in 2020 for Japanese companies to reduce dependency on Chi...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | Analysis
AstraZeneca inks COVID-19 vaccine deal with China's BioKangtai

AstraZeneca signed a deal with Beijing-based Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products (BioKangtai) ...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
GenScript Biotech Corporation enters strategic distributor partnership with Premas Life Sciences to distribute cPassTM SARS CoV-2 Neutralization Antibody Detection Kit in India.

GenScript Biotech Corporation (“GenScript”, Stock Code: 1548.HK), a leading global biotechnology company tod...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | 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
Australian develops effective Triple Therapy to treat COVID-19

Australia's The Centre for Digestive Disease (CDD) Medical Director Professor Thomas Borody MB, BS, BSc(Med), MD, PhD, D...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
ADB provides $1.5B to support Thailand's COVID-19 response

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a $1.5 billion loan to support the Government of Thailand’s response...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | 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
6th Asia Healthcare Week: A note on “COVID-19 and the NHS UK Response”

Informa Connect Singapore recently conducted its first live webinar to complement the main conference offering. Hosted a...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | Influencers
Australia issues new information for vaccine manufacturers

Vaccine manufacturers seeking listing on the National Immunisation Program (NIP) Schedule must ask for advice from ...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan develops robot to perform nasal swab tests

Brain Navi, a biotechnology startup based in Taiwan's Hsinchu's Biomedical Science Park, has developed a ...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech to supply 120M doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Japan

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced an agreement with the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan ...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
NTU speeds up gold-standard COVID-19 diagnostic test

Clinician-scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore’s (NTU Singapore) Lee Kong Chian School of Med...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Atomo Diagnostics collaborates with Access Bio for rapid COVID-19 testing

Australia based Atomo Diagnostics has announced that it has signed a binding agreement with US-based diagnostics special...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Seegene receives expanded EUA for COVID-19 diagnostic assay

South Korean firm Seegene, Inc. has announced that U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has further expanded the emer...

July 31, 2020 | Friday | News
Affinity’s COVID-19 antibodies ready for clinical trials

Melbourne-based Affinity Biosciences Pty Ltd (Affinity) has lodged a pre-publication submission to the scientific journa...

July 31, 2020 | Friday | News
NEJM study demonstrates Safety and Efficacy of mAb to treat Yellow Fever

Tychan, a Singapore-based clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing life-saving treatments through disr...

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Pictor furthers R&D in COVID-19 and M. bovis

New Zealand's Auckland-based biotechnology company Pictor is embarking on a NZ$2.5 million fundraising round to enable i...

July 31, 2020 | Friday | News
Dynavax, Medigen to develop adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate

US based Dynavax Technologies Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel v...

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
A*STAR & partners roll out breakthrough COVID-19 test

DSO National Laboratories and A*STAR's Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub in Singapore have jointly developed RESOLUTE 2....

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japanese Beta Glucan recommended for clinical trial in COVID-19 patients

A unique Beta 1,3-1,6 Glucan produced by the AFO-202 strain of a black yeast Aureobasidium pullulans is worth considerin...

July 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Heroic-Faith focuses on remote patient monitoring

Taiwan based Heroic-Faith which uses deep learning and other forms of AI to develop algorithms that assist in the identi...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore develops highly specific COVID-19 test to detect neutralizing Abs in 1hr

Singapore researchers have developed a unique and rapid SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralisation test (sVNT) to determi...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore clinicians develop innovative ventilator for COVID-19 patients

Singapore's Clinician innovators from SingHealth hospitals viz., KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), S...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Israel, India enter partnership to fight COVID-19

The Israel Ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Health will lead a unique operation with their Indi...

July 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
MP Biomedicals, A*STAR co-develop rapid Ab test kit for SARS-COV-2

MP Biomedicals Asia Pacific Pte Ltd in collaboration with Singapore's A*STAR has developed ASSURE®&nb...

July 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
India receives first tranche of oxygen concentrators from Singapore

Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Government of India received the first tranche o...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | 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
ViroTrack Sero's IMA assay kit detects IgA+IgM, IgG Ab against SARS-CoV-2

Taiwan's Bluesense Diagnostics, ViroTrack Sero COVID-19 IgA+IgM/IgG Ab is an in vitro immuno-magnetic (IMA) as...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | 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
AstraZeneca's AZD1222 expresses robust immune responses in Phase I/II trial

Interim results from the ongoing Phase I/II COV001 trial, led by Oxford University, showed AZD1222 was tolerated and gen...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
US inks $1.95B deal with Pfizer, BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine doses

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced the execution of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Se...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia approves remdesivir as first treatment option for COVID-19

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Division of the Australian Department of Health, has granted pr...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
Celltrion launches human trial of potential COVID-19 Ab treatment

South Korea based Celltrion Group has announced the launch of its Phase I human clinical trial investigating a potential...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore approves clinical trial application for LUNAR-COV19 vaccine

US based Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc., a leading clinical-stage messenger RNA medicines company focused on the di...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Avance Clinical Contracted for Atossa Therapeutics AT-301 Nasal Spray Clinical Study

The leading Australian CRO for biotechs and Frost & Sullivan 2020 Asia-Pacific CRO Market Leadership Award winner Av...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
"G20 countries in APAC are not prepared for the needs of aging populations" reports The EIU

More people are living into old age than ever before. In 2018 The World Health Organization predicted that by 2020 there...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
D-Link launches group temperature screening camera kit

D-Link Corporation, a Taiwanese multinational networking equipment manufacturing corporation, has announced the new ...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
CanSino first with Ph II COVID-19 vaccine results

CanSino Biologics Inc., an innovative biopharmaceutical company dedicated to vaccine R&D and commercialization, has ...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia develops breakthrough blood test for COVID-19 detection

The research team, led by Bioresource Processing Institute of Australia (BioPRIA) and Monash University’...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Biocon presents Clinical results for DCGI approval of Itolizumab for COVID-19

India’s Biocon Ltd., an innovation-led global biopharmaceuticals company, on 13 July 2020 presented key insights i...

July 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore identifies critical antibody target site in SARS-CoV-2

The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have announced...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
World's first handheld Thermal Camera detects fever with precision

The world is facing a never before seen crisis which has cost economies billions of dollars and affected an unprecedente...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Frost & Sullivan Reveals Top Five Predictions for Global Healthcare Industry Post COVID-19

Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Post-Pandemic Global Healthcare Market Outlook, 2020, forecasts that 2020 w...

July 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore uncovers SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell immunity

A Singapore study has uncovered the presence of virus-specific T cell immunity in people who recovered from COVID-19 and...

July 20, 2020 | Monday | 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
Taiwan highlights three factors for successful fight against COVID-19

Why is Taiwan so well under control of the corona crisis despite its geographic proximity to China? Taiwan's former...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News
Fosun Pharma's licensed COVID-19 vaccine gets NMPA acceptance

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. has announced that its subsidiary Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Industri...

July 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
China invents rapid test kit for potential severe COVID-19 cases

Professor Cheng Chao-Min of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University in China ...

July 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Vela Diagnostics receives CE-IVD approval for automated COVID-19 detection test

Singapore based Vela Diagnostics has announced that an automated version of its COVID-19 detection test, the ViroKey&tra...

July 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
US Joins India in trials for ayurveda formulations against COVID-19

A group of eminent Indian-American scientists and doctors met with the Indian Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Singh Sandh...

July 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Indonesia Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy implements Health Protocol

Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy/Tourism and Creative Economy Agency launched "Indonesia Care", a national campa...

July 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Vietnam's Vingroup to give 2,400 ventilators to Russia, Ukraine and Singapore

On July 10, 2020, VinGroup fulfilled its obligations to deliver ventilators to Singapore, Russia and Ukraine. ...

July 11, 2020 | Saturday | News
Luina Bio, XING to bring in fast SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic kit

Australia based Luina Bio is pleased to announce they have been selected to partner with XING Technologies (Brisbane) to...

July 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Lucence, Akribis scale up accurate mass-testing for COVID-19

  Singapore based precision medicine company Lucence and precision engineering company Akribis Systems in Singapor...

July 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
CEPI, Clover Biopharma advance COVID-19 vaccine development

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has announced the expansion of its partnership with Sichuan C...

July 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Ardigen, CVC collaborate to develop SARS-CoV-2 vaccine

Poland headquartered Ardigen and New Zealand based CVC (COVID-19 Vaccine Corporation) have announced that...

July 13, 2020 | Monday | 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
Chemopharm ramps up efforts to fight COVID-19

Chemopharm Sdn Bhd has become the first company in Malaysia to partner with Standard Chartered as part of the Bank&rsquo...

July 10, 2020 | Friday | News
Caution on viewing COVID-19 vaccine as silver bullet: NUS webinar

The “COVID-19: Updates from Singapore” weekly webinar series is a forum for leading clinicians, scientists, ...

July 9, 2020 | Thursday | 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
CSL Behring evaluates monoclonal Ab for respiratory distress

Australia based CSL Limited's part, CSL Behring has announced that the first patient has been enrolled in its ...

July 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
GBC develops novel molecular testing kit for COVID-19

General Biologicals Corporation (GBC), a Taiwanese medical device company has developed the GB SARS-CoV-2 Real-Time RT-P...

July 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
"Aiming for Perfection in a Pandemic", an opinion by Datwyler

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, the industry is working tirelessly to identify an effective treatment and ...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | Opinion
DKSH Thailand leverages advanced technology to combat epidemics

DKSH Thailand Business Technology hosted a seminar in mid-June 2020 on the topic “Preparing for the new normal: ...

July 6, 2020 | Monday | News
Senhwa Bio explores Silmitasertib for COVID-19 treatment

Taiwan absed Senhwa Biosciences, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on Next Generation DNA Damage ...

July 7, 2020 | Tuesday | News
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
Fujifilm, Dr. Reddy and Global Response Aid to co-develop anti COVID-19 drug

FUJIFILM Corporation partners with Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News

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