GCCL and Medicover announce strategic collaboration to strengthen multinational clinical trial services

South Korea-based GCCL Co., a data-driven clinical trial services provider, and Germany-based Medicover Integrated Clini...

February 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Korea's GCCL partners with OPIS to advance global clinical trial capabilities

GCCL, a leading South Korea-based provider of clinical trial sample analysis, and US-based OPIS, a global full-service c...

January 16, 2026 | Friday | News
Curie Oncology and Oncoshot deploy AI-powered clinical research tools

Curie Oncology, one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing private oncology networks, has partnered with Singapore-based he...

December 17, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Zuellig Pharma opens state-of-the-art clinical trial support innovation centre in South Korea

Zuellig Pharma, a leading healthcare solutions company in Asia, has announced the grand opening of its new state-of-the-...

December 1, 2025 | Monday | News
NEXT Oncology expands to Japan in partnership with Kansai Medical University

NEXT Oncology, an Avacare business, has expanded its services to Asia through a strategic partnership with Kansai Medica...

November 6, 2025 | Thursday | News
Eli Lilly Commits Over $1.2 Billion to Expand Puerto Rico Manufacturing Hub

The project will modernize Lilly’s facilities in Carolina, generate over 1,100 new jobs across construction and op...

October 29, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Raffles Medical Group partners with Gene Solutions to expand access to global cancer clinical trials

Singapore-based Raffles Medical Group and Gene Solutions, headquartered in Vietnam, have signed a Memorandum of Understa...

October 28, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Avance Clinical opens CoE to accelerate early phase biotech trials

Avance Clinical, the Australia-based global CRO partner for biotechs, has announced the launch of its dedicated Early Ph...

October 23, 2025 | Thursday | News
AI Meets CRO: Expecto Health Science Partners with VertisPro to Overcome Patient Recruitment Challenges

Expecto Health Science, an emerging Asia-Pacific Contract Research Organisation (CRO) led by a highly experienced leader...

August 25, 2025 | Monday | News
Australian clinical trials accelerate innovation by empowering digital unified platform approach

Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes brand and leading provider of clinical trial solutions to the life sciences industr...

July 10, 2025 | Thursday | News
Verified Clinical Trials launches operations in Japan

Verified Clinical Trials (VCT), the global leader in clinical trial subject registry solutions, has officially laun...

July 8, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Novatrials opens advanced Phase 1 clinical trials facility in Australia to meet global demand

Novatrials, Australia’s largest independently owned clinical trials site, is excited to announce its newly constru...

June 16, 2025 | Monday | News
Novo Nordisk raises clinical research standards to develop Thailand's health system and economy

The Public Health Systems Research Institute (PHRI) and Novo Nordisk Pharma (Thailand) Co. have signed a major...

June 9, 2025 | Monday | News
Telix Pharma establishes new operations in Japan

Australia-headquartered Telix Pharmaceuticals has established Telix Manufacturing Solutions (TMS) in Yokohama, Japan. Te...

June 5, 2025 | Thursday | News
Taiwan's KMUH inks MoU with AbbVie to accelerate global clinical trials and advance patient-centered innovation

To accelerate clinical trial activation and execution, enhance research quality, and strengthen international competitiv...

June 3, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Teddy Laboratory forges new landscape in lab services collaboration in China

Teddy Laboratory, a subsidiary of Tigermed, has officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement with LabConnect...

May 30, 2025 | Friday | News
Targeting inflammation at the source: VX-01 aims to redefine NPDR treatment with first oral therapy

Patients with non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) currently face a therapeutic gap—one that often leaves...

May 16, 2025 | Friday | News
Australia starts world-first immunotherapy trial to treat Type 1 diabetes

Researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia have dosed 5 participants in the first clinical trial of a p...

April 30, 2025 | Wednesday | News
“There are over 650 cell and gene therapy clinical trials underway in APAC region”

What are the company’s major plans in store for 2025, particularly for the APAC region?  The pharmaceutical ...

March 31, 2025 | Monday | Opinion
Novotech strengthens clinical trial capabilities in South Korea

Novotech, a global leading full-service clinical Contract Research Organization (CRO), and Acrostar, a provider of Site ...

March 19, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Avance Clinical inks new partnerships to expand into Taiwan

Avance Clinical, a leading full-service global Contract Research Organization (CRO) specialising in high-quality, agile ...

March 18, 2025 | Tuesday | News
China Medical University Hospital Joins With AbbVie to Promote Innovative Clinical Trial Collaboration

The China Medical University Hospital Clinical Trial Center (CMUH-CTC) is committed to enhancing clinical trials within ...

March 13, 2025 | Thursday | Opinion
India explores development of joint research, clinical trials, and technology-driven solutions with Queensland

Trade and Investment Queensland (TIQ), the Queensland Government’s dedicated business agency presented a 20 member...

February 26, 2025 | Wednesday | News
First major licensing deal for an exosome therapeutics in Korea

Brexogen, a leading biotechnology company specialising in exosome-based therapeutics, has announced a technology transfe...

February 20, 2025 | Thursday | News
Novotech inks MoU with Wonju Severance Christian Hospital to drive clinical research excellence in Korea

Novotech, a global full-service clinical Contract Research Organisation (CRO) that partners with biotech and small to mi...

February 19, 2025 | Wednesday | News
OliX Pharma and Lilly to develop treatment for metabolic-associated steatohepatitis

South Korea-based OliX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading developer of RNAi therapeutics, has announced a global licensing...

February 10, 2025 | Monday | News
Australia announces $20 M funding boost for childhood brain cancer research

The Australian Government is investing close to $20 million in funding for researchers to support groundbreaking nationa...

February 3, 2025 | Monday | News
When Clinical Trials Suffer From ‘Complicated’ Interactions

When almost half of clinical trial stakeholders describe their working relationships as "complicated," it’s a sign...

February 1, 2025 | Saturday | Opinion
Australia Advances Cancer Research with Kazia’s ABC-Pax Trial for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Kazia Therapeutics Limited , an oncology-focused drug development company, has announced the regulatory approval and lau...

January 31, 2025 | Friday | News
National Taiwan University Hospital and AbbVie Biopharma to strengthen digital strategies for clinical trials

National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and AbbVie Biopharmaceuticals GmbH Taiwan Branch (AbbVie) have signed a coope...

January 10, 2025 | Friday | News
HiRO forges strategic partnership with CHA University Bundang Medical Center in South Korea

Harvest Integrated Research Organization (HiRO), a boutique global clinical research organization (CRO) providing c...

December 16, 2024 | Monday | News
“The ongoing alignment of clinical trial regulations across APAC with global standards is significant”

Can you elaborate on Medidata’s growth strategy for the APAC region? What specific factors are driving the expansi...

October 2, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
Uphill Task of Finding and Retaining Alzheimer’s Study Participants

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved the second drug in the past two years that’s currently...

July 31, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
Life Sciences Industry Faces Setbacks: The Impact of Failed Clinical Trials in 2024

The Life Sciences Industry: Pitfalls and the Impact of Failed Clinical Trials in 2024 The life sciences industry is at ...

June 28, 2024 | Friday | Analysis
Evotec and CHDI Extend 20-Year Collaboration to Advance Huntington’s Disease Therapeutics

Longstanding alliance between Evotec and CHDI to enable the development of therapeutics for Huntington’s disease...

May 30, 2024 | Thursday | News
Australia launches new specialist ophthalmic clinical trial facility

To mark World Clinical Trials Day on May 20, Victorian Deputy Premier and Minister for Medical Research, Ben Carro...

May 21, 2024 | Tuesday | News
"Japan's success in digital health is attributed to the collaborative efforts between the government, private sector, and academic institutions"

Could you elaborate on some of the most prominent trends shaping the landscape of clinical trials in the Asia-Pacific re...

May 20, 2024 | Monday | News
The Antibody-Drug Conjugate Community in Asia is Gearing Up for Their Annual Industry Touchpoint

Making its triumphant return to the region this Summer, this meeting will bring together key players of the ADC lan...

May 15, 2024 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's SMART researchers identify malaria parasite drug resistance mechanism

Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-M...

May 17, 2024 | Friday | News
“Australia offers a simple, supportive and robust regulatory process to initiate human trials efficiently”

What makes Uvax Bio’s technology different from other vaccine technologies?  Recombinant protein vaccines ar...

May 1, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
“Regulatory encouragement of advanced tech, including AI will accelerate clinical trials in APAC”

Could you elaborate on the most prominent trends shaping the APAC clinical trials landscape? One of Lokavant’s ea...

May 1, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
What Are the Main Challenges of Modern Clinical Trials?

While the increasing volume of clinical data is welcome in many respects, clinicians and trial managers often struggle w...

May 1, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
How APAC Has Turned into Clinical Trial Behemoth

Over the past decade, the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region has emerged as a global leader in clinical trial conduct. In 2021, ...

May 1, 2024 | Wednesday | Opinion
What’s APAC’s Recipe of Success in Clinical Trials Market?

The APAC region continues to rule the roost in clinical trials, experiencing dramatic growth rates surpassing those in t...

May 1, 2024 | Wednesday | Analysis
QUT partners with Omico to pave way for precision cancer care in Australia

Australian Translational Genomics Centre (ATGC) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will help link Queensland...

April 22, 2024 | Monday | News
Singapore supports development of AI-based clinical trial tool with S$50,000

A team of healthcare professionals has received a $50,000 award to transform their idea for an Artificial Intelligence (...

March 27, 2024 | Wednesday | News
ClinChoice acquires CSI, expanding global footprint into Southeast Asia

ClinChoice, a global Contract Research Organisation (CRO), has announced expanding its global footprint with the acquisi...

January 12, 2024 | Friday | News
CEPI, IVI and MRC Unit The Gambia to bolster clinical research capacity in West Africa to combat regional viral threat

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Republic of Korea-based International Vaccine Institute ...

November 30, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japanese firm Mitsui invests $8 M in US-based clinical intelligence startup Lokavant

US-based Lokavant, the clinical trial intelligence platform company, has announced an $8 million strategic investment fr...

October 10, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Buzzreach and Oncoshot spearhead clinical trial advancements in Japan

Buzzreach and Oncoshot, two prominent entities in the clinical trials domain, have announced an impactful collaboration ...

September 14, 2023 | Thursday | News
Australia shines in clinical trial activity ranking but gaps exist

An examination of how clinical trials have changed in Australia over the past 15 years has identified challenges such as...

August 18, 2023 | Friday | News
Why India Is Most Preferred Clinical Trials Destination

According to a February 2022 report by Research and Markets, the clinical trials market in India was estimated to be val...

July 4, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Immuno-oncology company Biosyngen opens new cell therapy GMP facility in Singapore

Biosyngen, an immuno-oncology company with technology targeting the unmet medical needs in solid tumour and lymphoma tre...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | Company results
Australian startup Cyteph secures $1.5 M for brain cancer immunotherapy trial

Cyteph, a spin-out biotechnology company from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia, has been awa...

May 30, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Singapore-based startup Hummingbird Bioscience inks oncology deal with Merck

Singapore-based startup Hummingbird Bioscience has entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with...

May 17, 2023 | Wednesday | News
EBPs are leveraging digitalisation to drive innovation and improve patient outcomes

How do you define the essentials of a decentralised approach in the current drug discovery landscape? It is essential t...

May 5, 2023 | Friday | Opinion
Japan bags new opportunity to improve healthcare system

Omi Medical Center, a part of the Seikoukai Social Medical Corporation and one of Japan's leading institu...

February 27, 2023 | Monday | News
Groundbreaking trial underway for treatment of advanced Retinitis Pigmentosa in Australia

In collaboration with US-based Kiora Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and The Royal Adelaide Hospital, leading Australian Contract ...

February 15, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Ph I trial of first needle-free influenza vaccine begins in Australia

Australian biotech firm Vaxxas has announced the initiation of a Phase I clinical trial with the first inactivated ...

February 13, 2023 | Monday | News
Korea's Wellmarker Bio inks cancer drug trial collaboration with Merck

South Korean firm Wellmarker Bio (WMBIO) has entered a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Merck (kno...

February 10, 2023 | Friday | News
CardieX & Invaryant enable clinical trials with advanced new AI medical technology

Australia's CardieX Limited, a global health technology company focused on patient-centric healthcare research and impro...

January 5, 2023 | Thursday | News
NZ-based P3 Research secures investment from Genesis Capital to accelerate expansion

P3 Research, a leading New Zealand (NZ) clinical trials site network with seven locations across New Zealand, has t...

December 23, 2022 | Friday | News
New Zealand's health agencies explore ways to improve clinical trials

New Zealand's leading health agencies will explore system-level changes to improve benefits from clinical trials, based ...

December 15, 2022 | Thursday | News
Oncoshot and Novotech partner to offer cancer data insights in APAC

Singapore-based startup Oncoshot and internationally recognised contract research organisation (CRO) Novotech have begun...

November 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Chinese startup Jacobio Pharma partners with Merck for cancer clinical trial

China-based startup Jacobio has entered into a clinical trial collaboration agreement with Merck on clinical study of co...

October 14, 2022 | Friday | News
Singapore pumps in SGD19.2 M for novel liver cancer treatment trial

A multi-national, investigator-initiated and industry-backed clinical trial has been launched to test the efficacy of a ...

October 6, 2022 | Thursday | News
Asia Pacific takes lead in cell and gene clinical trials

The Asia Pacific (APAC) region has taken in the lead in cell and gene clinical trials, accounting for the largest share ...

September 15, 2022 | Thursday | News
Alterity Therapeutics opens first site in Europe for drug trial of Multiple System Atrophy

Australia-based Alterity Therapeutics has announced that the company’s Phase 2 clinical trial of ATH434 for ...

August 25, 2022 | Thursday | News
First central oncology laboratory for clinical trials opens in Malaysia

Hematogenix, the first central oncology laboratory for clinical trials in Malaysia has been officiated by the Minister o...

August 11, 2022 | Thursday | News
Genesis Capital invests in Australian firm Crux Biolabs

Crux Biolabs, a leading Australian laboratory for vaccines, immunotherapies, immuno-oncology and infectious diseases, ha...

August 5, 2022 | Friday | News
Aculys Pharma, SUSMED to conduct world's first clinical trial using blockchain

Japan-based Aculys Pharma has entered into a contract with SUSMED, Inc., a company that promotes digital medicine, to co...

July 13, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Singapore-based AUM Biosciences partners with Roche for cancer drug trial

Singapore-based AUM Biosciences has entered into a clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Roche to evalu...

May 11, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Genome and Company partners with Merck for cancer drug trial

Genome and Company, a leading global microbiome anti-cancer drug development company in Korea, has entered into a first ...

March 4, 2022 | Friday | News
World's first long-acting herpes treatment trial taking place in US, China

Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre and Cheng Kung University's Department of Microbiology and Immunology have joined...

October 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Anatara Lifesciences to launch First-of-its-kind Decentralized Clinical Trial in Australia

ObvioHealth, a global Virtual Research Organization (VRO), is set to launch a first-of-its-kind clinical trial in A...

September 30, 2021 | Thursday | News
UK-based Futura Medical with OCT Clinical to run FM71 study in Eastern Europe, US

Futura Medical, a pharmaceutical company developing a portfolio of innovative products based on its proprietary, transde...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
UK Medical Research Council (MRC) grants £1.5 M to investigate Alzheimer’s genetics

A £1.5 million grant from the UK's Medical Research Council (MRC) will support new research examining changes in h...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
China completes largest ever dry eye disease clinical trial

Zhaoke Ophthalmology has announced that the Phase III clinical trial of one of the company's core drug candidates, Cyclo...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
APAC sponsors/CROs inclination to innovative and optimized DCT model trial designs

Clinical trials in a drug development process often face multiple hurdles around patient recruitment and management resu...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | Opinion
Longer-interval of Pfizer vaccine dose boosts antibody levels: Study

Universities of Sheffield, Oxford, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Birmingham, with support from the UK Coronavirus Immunology...

July 23, 2021 | Friday | News
Nichi Glucan progresses to clinical studies in autism spectrum disorder

Beneficial effects in autism spectrum disorders of the Japanese food supplement Nichi-Glucan (www.nichiglucan.com), a bi...

June 28, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
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
Medidata extends a secure platform for Decentralization of Clinical Trials (DCT)

Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, announced the launch of the Medidata Decentralized Clinical Trials (D...

June 16, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea's IVI to develop adaptive Ph 1b/2a schistosomiasis vaccine trial

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea has announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has ...

June 3, 2021 | Thursday | News
Tiziana seeks partner in Asia to enhance hepatocellular carcinoma treatment

Tiziana Life Sciences plc, a UK based biotechnology company focused on innovative therapeutics for oncology, inflammatio...

May 5, 2021 | Wednesday | News
China explores new mode of pharmaceutical R&D

Guangzhou Link Health Pharma Co., Ltd. (Link Health), based in China, and Australian firm George Clinical Pty Ltd (Georg...

May 3, 2021 | Monday | News
Fujifilm initiates new Ph III trial of Avigan for COVID-19 treatment in Japan

FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical has announced the initiation of a new phase III clinical trial in Japan concerning its anti-inf...

April 21, 2021 | Wednesday | News
TrialWire launches StudyBoost, the Clinical trial insurance plan

TrialWire(TM), the most secure digital Patient Recruitment Platform for trial rescue, announces the launch of StudyBoost...

March 23, 2021 | Tuesday | News
UK conducts innovative COVID-19 trials with deliberate volunteered infection

United Kingdom government announced an investment of 33.6 million pounds ($43.5 million) in a study called “h...

March 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Panthera to evaluate AstraZeneca’s AZD7442 for the potential prevention of COVID-19

Panthera’s clinical trial sites in Preston, North Manchester and North London began dosing volunteers in the Phase...

December 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Tychan to begin Ph 3 trial for mAb TY027 against COVID-19

In June 2020, Tychan began its Phase 1 clinical safety trials in humans to evaluate TY027, a monoclonal antibo...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Contract for innovative delivery system for COVID-19 vaccine

Croda International Plc (“Croda” or “the Group”), the speciality chemical company that uses smar...

November 16, 2020 | Monday | News
CEPI funds Sichuan Clover for COVID-19 vaccine development

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, based in Norway, has announced that it will fund the developm...

November 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
Russia- Destination of choice for Asian pharma companies

Asian biotech industry has been experiencing an escalating boom over the past several years. Pharmaceutical companies ha...

November 3, 2020 | Tuesday | Opinion
Daewoong pharma partners with Tufts medical center for Ph 2 trial with Niclosamide

Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on 26 Oct 2020 that the collaborative clinical research agreement betwe...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | News
Asieris announces approval for Ph 1 trial of bladder cancer drug in Australia

Asieris Pharmaceuticals, a China-based biotech company specializing in the development and commercialization of new...

October 29, 2020 | Thursday | News
APRINOIA announces NMPA approval to initiate Ph 3 clinical trial

APRINOIA Therapeutics advancing a pipeline featuring diagnostic and therapeutic programs, collectively targeting brain d...

October 28, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Evado is pleased to announce the launch of Evado OnDemand.

The COVID Pandemic has dramatically disrupted the delivery of clinical trials. Sponsors now require instant  access...

October 26, 2020 | Monday | News
Oric Pharma teams up with Korean firm to expand precision oncology pipeline

ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage oncology company focused on developing treatments that address mechanisms o...

October 23, 2020 | Friday | News
Astellas to present new roxadustat data in anemia of CKD at ASN kidney week

Japan-based Astellas Pharma Inc. (Astellas) has announced that in collaboration with FibroGen and AstraZeneca, 42 roxadu...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News

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