Johnson & Johnson announces breakthrough in Lung Cancer treatment with combination therapy

A new combination therapy has shown promise in extending survival for patients with a specific type of lung cancer in As...

December 6, 2025 | Saturday | News
Zydus and Synthon to commercialise novel 505(B)(2) oncology product in US market

India-based Zydus Lifesciences (including its subsidiaries and affiliates), has signed an exclusive development, licensi...

February 12, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Pfizer launches Rimegepant in Singapore for Acute and Prophylactic Migraine relief

Pfizer’s NURTEC® (rimegepant), an orally disintegrating tablet for both the acute treatment of migraine is now...

January 31, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Junshi Biosciences, Dr. Reddy’s to develop and commercialise oncology drug in 21 countries

Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co. has collaborated with Indian pharmaceutical firm Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories to devel...

May 8, 2023 | Monday | News
Monoclonal antibody drug by GSK Singapore approved to treat chronic rhinosinusitis

GSK Singapore announced that Nucala (mepolizumab), a monoclonal antibody that targets interleukin-5 (IL-5...

February 7, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China approves first and only therapy available for patients with EGFR Exon20 Insertion+ NSCLC

Japan headquatered Takeda's EXKIVITY (mobocertinib) has been approved by the National Medical Products Administration (N...

January 12, 2023 | Thursday | News
Diabetic neuropathic pain field presents significant opportunity for drug developers, says GlobalData

The current diabetic neuropathic pain treatment paradigm includes many established analgesics that provide sym...

December 20, 2022 | Tuesday | Analysis
Singapore paves the way for improved treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

A major clinical trial of an antibody treatment may soon pave the way for improved treatment of Alzheimer’s diseas...

December 6, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Huadong becomes strategic partner in Asia for Heidelberg Pharma, strikes deal worth $0.9B

German firm Heidelberg Pharma AG and Huadong Medicine in China have entered into a strategic partner...

March 1, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Japan to commercialize next-gen Hunter Syndrome therapy

Japanese firms Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and JCR Pharmaceuticals have announced a geographically-focused exclusive c...

October 1, 2021 | Friday | News
US approves first ophthalmology biosimilar, developed by South Korea

South Korea-based Samsung Bioepis has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BYOOVIZ...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan sets eyes on rare pediatric liver diseases

US-based Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical have entered into an exclusive licensing ag...

September 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia approves novel therapy to treat Advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer

Australian patients with an aggressive form of lung cancer (metastatic Small Cell Lung Cancer) can now access a new...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Eli Lilly Japan, Daiichi Sankyo ink pact to commercialise migraine drug

Eli Lilly Japan and Daiichi Sankyo Company have concluded an agreement on commercialisation collaboration in Japan for t...

September 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan to distribute hyperuricemia drug in five ASEAN countries

Japan-based Eisai and FUJI YAKUHIN have inked a license agreement concerning dotinurad (generic name), a treatment for h...

August 31, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Menarini to commercialize Japanese drug in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines

Singapore-based Menarini Asia-Pacific Holdings, a part of the leading Italian global biopharmaceutical company Menarini ...

August 23, 2021 | Monday | News
UK's NICE recommends abemaciclib for advanced breast cancer

The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new draft guidance which recommends Eli Li...

August 13, 2021 | Friday | News
FDA approves combination therapy for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC)

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a combination therapy from Eisai and Merck (MSD) namely,&...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
Yuyu Pharma to distribute Novartis Korea's prescription medicines

Yuyu Pharma and Novartis Korea have entered into an agreement in which Yuyu will have exclusive distribution rights for ...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
FDA approves Medtronic's Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Cardiac Monitoring

Medtronic, (headquartered in Dublin, Ireland), the global leader in medical technology, announced U.S. Food and Dru...

July 29, 2021 | Thursday | News
Menarini Asia-Pacific strengthens men's health portfolio in China

Menarini Asia-Pacific Holdings Pte. Ltd., part of the Menarini Group, the world's largest Italian biopharmaceutical comp...

July 22, 2021 | Thursday | News
China supports global polio endgame strategy with new vaccine

Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, has received a drug registration approval fr...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Frontier Biotechnologies launches two drug regimen for HIV

In conjunction with the IAS Conference on HIV Science, Germany's Frontier Biotechnologies has announced positive top-lin...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Eisai launches bile acid transporter inhibitor Goofice in Thailand

Eisai's Thailand subsidiary Eisai (Thailand) Marketing Co., Ltd. has launched the bile acid transporter inhibitor Goofic...

July 19, 2021 | Monday | News
Jardiance (empagliflozin) approved in Europe for the treatment of heart failure

The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for Jardiance®(empagliflozin) as a treatment for adults ...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Scientists propose repurposing anti-malarial drug Mefloquine to fight COVID-19

Japanese scientists are scanning the possibility of using an anti-malarial drug called mefloquine....

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
eTheRNA, VUB expand collaboration to engineer next-generation mRNA therapeutics

eTheRNA immunotherapies, a clinical-stage company developing mRNA-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and ...

June 23, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Vectura, Incannex to advance IHL-216A for treatment of traumatic brain injury

Vectura Group has signed an agreement with Australia-based Incannex Healthcare to provide pre-clinical development servi...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
RSF Bio enters worldwide license agreement with Sanofi for cardiovascular drug

Rancho Santa Fe Bio, Inc. (RSF Bio), a San Diego, California-based clinical-stage cardiovascular platform company, annou...

June 18, 2021 | Friday | News
Merck to commercialize Type 2 Diabetes drug in six growth markets

Merck has signed a collaboration agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals NV around the commercialization of INVOKANA...

May 4, 2021 | Tuesday | News
S. Korea's Peptron licenses global development of ADCs for cancer treatment

Peptron, Inc., a South Korea-based biotech company, and Qilu Pharmaceutical, a China-based pharmaceutical company f...

April 19, 2021 | Monday | News
BioVersys receives €20M in EU financing to support new antibiotics development

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and BioVersys AG, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing treatments ...

April 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
SK Biopharma seizures/epilepsy drug to launch in Europe

SK Biopharmaceuticals, Co., Ltd., a global innovative pharmaceutical company, announced that cenobamate received marketi...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Australian oncology drug Paxalisib receives rights to develop and commercialize in China

Sydney-based Kazia Therapeutics Limited, an oncology-focused drug development company announced that it has entered into...

April 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Astellas launches XOSPATA (gilteritinib) in Singapore to treat adult Leukaemia patients

Astellas Pharma Inc. announced on March 31, 2021, that XOSPATA® (generic name: gilteritinib) is now available for pr...

March 31, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Eisai's Anti Cancer agent Lenvatinib-Pembrolizumab combo receives EMA in Japan

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced on March 30, 2021 that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has confirmed it has acce...

March 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
EirGenix's proposed Biosimilar 'Trastuzumab' shows positive Ph 3 results

EirGenix, Inc. announced that the Phase III clinical trial (Trial No.: EGC002, NCT03433313) of its breast cancer biosimi...

March 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Eisai Medicine Innovation Technology Solutions to launch in Japan

Japanese firm Eisai Co., Ltd. as part of its strategic investment to realize its medium-term management plan, EWAY ...

March 22, 2021 | Monday | News
Eisai's anti-Insomnia drug Dayvigo (Lemborexant) approved in Hong Kong

Eisai Co., Ltd. announced that its Hong Kong subsidiary Eisai (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. has obtained approval for the in-hou...

March 1, 2021 | Monday | News
Eisai launches Parkinson's disease treatment Equfina in South Korea

Eisai Co., Ltd. has announced that Eisai Korea Inc., (Eisai's subsidiary in South Korea) has launched the Parkinson's di...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korean firms repurpose FDA-approved drug for rheumatoid arthritis treatment

Standigm Inc, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based drug discovery company and SK Chemicals Co, Ltd, a life science and ...

January 11, 2021 | Monday | News
Chugai’s Enspryng becomes first approved medicine for NMOSD in Taiwan

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced that Chugai Pharma Taiwan Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chugai, obta...

December 11, 2020 | Friday | News
AstraZeneca's Forxiga approved in Japan for chronic heart failure

AstraZeneca’s Forxiga (dapagliflozin) has been approved in Japan for the treatment of patients with chro...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Gilead, Eisai launch rheumatoid arthritis drug in Japan

Gilead Sciences K.K. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Luc Hermans) and Eisai Co.,...

November 19, 2020 | Thursday | News
Enhancing Survival of HCC Patients in The New Era - A Multi-disciplinary Team Approach

Singapore's Health Sciences Authority (HSA) recently approved an immunotherapy regimen (Tecentriq + Avastin) t...

November 13, 2020 | Friday | Company results
Novel drug for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GIST) to be Launched in Au, NZ, SEA

A NEW therapy to treat advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) will be available to patients in Australia,...

November 6, 2020 | Friday | News
Flu antiviral TG-1000 receives FDA approval in Taiwan

TaiGen Biotechnology Company, Limited (TaiGen) in Taiwan has announced that U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Korea's Biortus facilitates drug development through its MicroED service

Microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) is a new crystal structure determination technique for small molecules. It o...

October 26, 2020 | Monday | News
Fujifilm includes additional indication for COVID-19 drug

Japanese firm FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd. has announced that the company filed an Application for Partial Changes...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
India curbs Remdesivir price to make COVID-19 treatment more affordable

The Indian state, Maharashtra has become the first to fix the price of remdesivir at INR2,360 (US$32.17), which is 16% m...

October 16, 2020 | Friday | News
Pediatric indication for partial-onset seizures accepted in China

Eisai Co., Ltd. on 16 Oct 2020 announced that the supplementary new drug applications for its in-house discovered and de...

October 16, 2020 | Friday | News

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