Taiwan's PharmEngine initiates clinical trial of chemotherapy drug

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine licensing partner, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, and its sublicensing partner, Baxter Inte...

May 5, 2015 | Tuesday | News
HUYA Bioscience partners with Fudan University

Singapore: HUYA Bioscience International has signed an exclusive license with Fudan University for the ex-China rights t...

March 15, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Phylogica inks a deal with Genentech

Singapore: Australia-based drug discovering company, Phylogica has inked a pact with US-based Genentech, to discover nov...

December 22, 2014 | Monday | News
Pfizer gets FDA nod for tafamidis meglumine

Singapore: Pharma giant Pfizer has received a complete response letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) o...

June 20, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Taiwan's PharmaEngine gets TFDA nod for cancer drug

Singapore: Taiwan's PharmaEngine has recieved Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval for ONIVYDE (irinoteca...

October 23, 2015 | Friday | News
Cellmid receive patent approval from Australia

Singapore: Australia-based Cellmid has received patent approval from IP Australia for method of treatment or prevention ...

January 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
FDA to review Pfizer's meningococcal disease drug

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical firm, Pfizer, has recieved US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nod for review of Biol...

August 15, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
TNI BioTech, Qianjiang Pharma join hands

Singapore: US-based TNI BioTech, a biotechnology company focused on autoimmune diseases in emerging nations, has partner...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News
Japan Vaccine seeks approval to sell intradermal seasonal influenza vaccine in Japan

Japan Vaccine, an affiliate of pharmaceutical giant Daiichi Sankyo, and Terumo Corporation have filed an application for...

April 13, 2015 | Monday | News
Astellas to axe 300 jobs in home country in FY14

Singapore: Japanese pharmaceutical major Astellas Pharma has announced that it would cut down its group workforce in hom...

November 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Montreal Heart Institute discovers personalized therapy for cardiovascular disease

Singapore: Researchers at Montreal Heart Institute has demonstrated positive result from the medication of dalcetrapib i...

January 13, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Finally, Impax's Parkinson's drug gets FDA approval

Singapore: After years of rejecting approval for Impax's flagship drug Rytary, a treatment for Parkinson's disease, the ...

January 12, 2015 | Monday | News
Taiwan to develop cancer drug with target delivery

Singapore: US-based Molecular Targeting Technologies (MTTI) and National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) of Taiwan hav...

August 5, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Virax to acquire cancer drug developer AKTivate

Singapore: Australian biotechnology company Virax plans to acquire oncology company AKTivate Therapeutics and its novel ...

October 17, 2014 | Friday | News
Singapore develops novel cancer drug candidate

Singapore: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medic...

July 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
Japanese scientists discover anti-cancer property in diabetes drug

Scientists at the Okayama University in Japan have announced that their studies have revealed how a diabetes drug helps ...

March 24, 2015 | Tuesday | News
GSK, Theravance withdraw COPD drug from Japan

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance have withdrawn license application for the use of inhaled drug fluticasone fur...

July 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Novartis gets positive result in psoriasis PhIII drug

Singapore: Global pharma company Novartis has confirmed positive results from two pivotal phase III studies evaluating i...

July 10, 2014 | Thursday | News
Viral antibody discovered offers hope against flu

Singapore: Researchers from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed a new antibody that has shown...

February 23, 2015 | Monday | News
TaiGen, Russian firm to co-develop antibiotic

Singapore: Taiwan based TaiGen Biotechnology has collaborated with R-Pharm, a Russian pharmaceutical company, to develop...

January 21, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Verastem acquires FAK inhibitor from Pfizer

Singapore: Verastem, a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing drugs to treat breast and other c...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
Aussie, Indonesia to co-develop AIDS, cancer drugs

Singapore: Australia and Indonesia are jointly working towards the research to understand prevalence of AIDS and cancer ...

June 12, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Bionomics, Merck collaborate on drug development

Singapore: Australian biotech firm, Bionomics, has partnered with Merck for research and license agreement for its BNC37...

June 24, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Aussie start-up firm gets MRCF funding

Singapore: Australia's Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) has funded the start-up firm Solvanix, an early st...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Roche, Meiji Seika Pharma, Fedora collaborate to develop bacterial resistance to antibiotics

Singapore: Pharmaceutical firms, Roche, Meiji Seika Pharma and Fedora have entered into a license agreement for the deve...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Taiwan firm Delta, A*Star launches diagnostics lab in Singapore

Singapore: Taiwan based Delta Electronics has invested in Singapore to develop next-generation infectious disease detec...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Asia witnessing rise in COPD, says Dr David Price

Professor (Dr) David Price has been fighting the scourge of respiratory diseases throughout his life and is considered o...

July 6, 2012 | Friday | Influencers
Eli Lilly opens diabetes R&D center in China

Singapore: Eli Lilly officially opened the Lilly China Research and Development Center (LCRDC) on May 30, keeping with i...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
Aussie firm progresses with cancer anorexia drug

Singapore: Australia-based biopharmaceutical company, Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA), has achieved positive re...

September 29, 2014 | Monday | News
Alchemia recruits patients for rectal cancer trial

Singapore: Brisbane-based R&D company Alchemia has recruited the 390th patient for the pivotal phase III clinical tr...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer treatment market to touch $7.9 bn by 2020'

Singapore: Global Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) treatment market value will increase from USD5.1 billion in 2013 to...

September 11, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Amid rising concern, need for novel antibiotics

Singapore: Recent worries over antibiotics losing their effectiveness will only be exacerbated by the FDA's latest drug ...

March 14, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Bristol seeks Japanese nod of all-oral hepatitis C treatment

Singapore: US drugmaker, Bristol-Myers Squibb co has said that it is seeking Japanese health regulators approval of its ...

November 4, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Orphan blood disease drugs to gain market

Singapore: Physicians treating rare blood disorders now have more drug treatments to choose from to treat patients. This...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
German, Korean firm join hands to discover cancer drugs

Singapore: Germany's translational drug discovery organization, Lead Discovery Center (LDC), has entered into a licence ...

June 4, 2015 | Thursday | News
BMS, Pfizer gets FDA nod to review Eliquis

Singapore: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted to review Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for E...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Eisai expands R&D in Belgium with office in Brussels

Singapore: Eisai EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia and Oceania), the R&D division of the Japan-based company...

September 16, 2013 | Monday | News
Genzyme's Cerdelga capsules approved in Japan

Genzyme, a Sanofi company, announced that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has granted marketing approv...

April 1, 2015 | Wednesday | News
GE to open technology and training centre in Turkey

Singapore: GE Healthcare Life Sciences plans to open a technology and training laboratory in Turkey by mid-2015 targetti...

November 17, 2014 | Monday | News
Takeda terminates prostrate cancer drug trial

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has terminated the development program for orteronel (TAK-700) for prostate cancer foll...

June 24, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Panacea JV to yield generics revenue of $25 bn

New Delhi: Panacea Biotec entered into a strategic alliance for R&D and commercialization of drug delivery-based, ge...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Fosun Pharma listed in CCTV Financial 50 Index Sample Stock

Singapore: Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical has been listed in CCTV Financial 50 Index Sample Stock, an index created by Sh...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Military univ, Shanghai Pharma form alliance

Singapore: Shanghai Pharmaceuticals has entered into a strategic framework cooperation agreement with Secondary Military...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
Singapore, Korea scientists find clue to tumour suppression mechanism

Singapore: RUNX3, a gene that is intensively studied for its function as a tumour suppressor, is likely to be a key and ...

November 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Ranbaxy redesigns strategy to meet regulations

The year 2011 was a year of capturing potential markets and achieving new milestones. Ranbaxy Laboratories became the fi...

June 12, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Patrys gets nod to continue myeloma trial

Singapore: Patrys received approval to progress its phase I/IIa PAT-SM6 multiple myeloma trial based on safety data from...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
TB Alliance starts clinical trial of drug resistant TB

Singapore: TB Alliance has started a clinical trial of a new regimen to treat extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (X...

May 14, 2015 | Thursday | News
Ignyta acquires Teva's upcoming oncology program at $41.6 mn

Singapore: US based oncology biotechnology company, Ignyta, has acquired four targeted oncology development programs fro...

April 24, 2016 | Sunday | News
US firm files antibody patent in Japan, Korea

Singapore: MMRGlobal received confirmation of the filings of a divisional application for its antibody technology in Jap...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sphaera Pharma, DDRC, Wellcome Trust collaborate to foster TB research

Singapore: In a bid to further foster new drug research for drug resistant tuberculosis (TB), Wellcome Trust has collabo...

August 10, 2015 | Monday | News
J&J to open innovation centers in US, UK and China

Singapore: Johnson & Johnson plans to establish four regional innovation centers in major life sciences communities ...

September 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Amgen progresses on Ph II study of migraine drug

Singapore: Amgen has received positive results from its global Phase 2 clinical trial of AMG 334, a fully human monoclon...

May 18, 2015 | Monday | News
OccuRx kick starts with $5.21 mn investment

Singapore: OccuRx, an Australian biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of drugs to prevent health burden due ...

May 18, 2015 | Monday | News
Nektar's therapy helps the body kill its own cancer

Singapore: US-based Nektar Therapeutics has revealed positive preclinical data for NKTR-214, a novel cancer immunotherap...

April 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Researchers discover antibody to prevent dengue

Singapore: A group of international researchers, including from University of Melbourne, have discovered a new class of ...

December 31, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Suven Lifesciences receives five patents from four countries

Singapore: India-based Suven Lifescinces has secured patents for its new chemical entities (NCEs) from Japan, China, New...

December 17, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Israel firm gets US, China patent for neuro-peptide

Singapore: Israel-based D-Pharm has recieved new patent in the US and China, related to composition and use of THR-18, a...

October 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
Brain cancer drug may be effective in melanoma treatment

Singapore: Australia based Novogen's lead candidate, TRXE-009, developed for the treatment of brain cancers, has shown t...

December 17, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Singapore scientists find new clues on cervical cancer

Singapore: A team of scientists from Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of...

December 9, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Japan gets Certara's D360 to boost drug discovery

Singapore: Certara, a drug development and drug safety consultancy firm has launched its D360 software in Japan for prov...

August 4, 2014 | Monday | News
3SBio to develop antibody for acute leukemia

Singapore: Chinese biotechnology firm, 3SBio, has signed an exclusive license with Korean firm, DiNonA  for the develop...

August 8, 2014 | Friday | News
Aussie firm initiates bronchitis drug trial for smokers

Singapore: Australia-based clinical-stage drug development company, Invion, initiated and commenced patient enrolment in...

July 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Breast cancer boasts of highest drug pipeline'

Singapore: Breast cancer therapeutics pipeline has higher innovation in first-in-class molecules, with many new technolo...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | News
Ascend to begin PhII trial for skin cancer

Singapore: Ascend Biopharmaceuticals, a Melbourne-based immunotherapy company, plans to begin a Phase 2 clinical trial o...

September 11, 2014 | Thursday | News
Singapore firm progresses on urinary tract infections drug

Singapore: Singapore's biopharmaceutical company, MerLion Pharmaceuticals, has recieved positive results from a phase 2 ...

January 9, 2015 | Friday | News
US investment firm expands in China

Singapore: Ally Bridge Group (ABG), a global healthcare-focused investment platform, has expanded its global biopharmace...

January 9, 2015 | Friday | News
Aspirin may reduce ovarian cancer risk: NIH

Singapore: Women who take aspirin daily may reduce their risk of ovarian cancer by 20 percent, according to a study by s...

February 7, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Zebrafish genes linked to human respiratory diseases'

Singapore: A small freshwater fish found in many tropical aquariums may hold the key to unlocking one of the leading cau...

September 22, 2014 | Monday | News
FDA to further review Otsuka kidney drug

Singapore: Otsuka Pharmaceutical received a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the US FDA regarding the new drug applic...

September 2, 2013 | Monday | News
Satish Jindal, BMS India R&D head, to lead US innovation venture

Singapore: Allied-Bristol Life Sciences, a jointly owned enterprise between Allied Minds and Bristol-Myers Squibb, has a...

October 3, 2014 | Friday | News
US firm discovers potential biomarker for malaria

Singapore: US based biotech firm, Genocea Biosciences, has identified a cluster of antigens, generated using its ATLAS a...

November 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Malaria drug may cure asthma: Research

Singapore: National University of Singapore has demonstrated effectiveness of artesunate, a common herbal-based anti-mal...

August 4, 2014 | Monday | News
Danish firm, Aussie instiute to co-develop pathological drugs

Singapore: Danish firm, Mirrx Therapeutics and Australia's Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology has f...

November 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Dainippon sets up cancer drug subsidiary in the US

Singapore: Japan-based Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP), has decided to establish an anti-cancer drugs sales company in t...

October 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Japanese, Korean firm to jointly develop breast cancer drug

Singapore: Japanese company, Kyowa Hakko Kirin and Korean firm, Syndax Pharmaceuticals, have entered into a license agre...

January 8, 2015 | Thursday | News
Novogen's chemotherapeutic agent set to enter human trial in 2015

Singapore: Cantrixil, a first-in-class experimental chemotherapeutic, developed by Australia/US-based biotech firm Novog...

December 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Auspherix raises $1 mn for antibiotics

Singapore: Auspherix, an early stage anti-infectives company developing novel antibiotics to treat resistant bacterial d...

October 23, 2014 | Thursday | News
Clinuvel's subisidiary develops drug candidate for vitiligo

Singapore: Australia and Switzerland based Clinuvel Pharmaceuticals' Singapore subsidiary Vallaurix has successfully com...

May 6, 2015 | Wednesday | News
EU supports Pyridorin drug trial for diabetic nephropathy

Singapore: NephroGenex, pharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutics to treat kidney disease, has r...

January 9, 2015 | Friday | News
EMA to review Eli Lilly's basal insulin

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim's marketing authorisation app...

July 9, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Novartis' Cosentyx receives Japanese nod

Singapore: The Japanese Ministry for Health and Welfare has recently given its nod for Novatris' Cosentyx, that treats p...

February 6, 2015 | Friday | News
Aus invests $1mn in antibiotics start-up Auspherix

Singapore: Australia's Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) has invested around $1 million in an early stage a...

December 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Japanese scientists identify genes associated with peripheral artery disease

Tokyo: Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences have worked with a number of universities and...

October 26, 2015 | Monday | News
Swedish firm partners with Sanofi to expand in Asia

Singapore: Sweden-based company NeuroVive Pharmaceutical's Asia arm has signed a collaboration agreement with Sanofi's a...

May 27, 2015 | Wednesday | News
WuXi CRO gets toxicity prediction software license

Singapore: WuXi PharmaTech, a China-based contract research organization (CRO), has obtained a multiyear license to Adme...

November 13, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Asthma therapy market to touch $23.1 bn by 2023

Singapore: Asthma treatment market value will grow from approximately USD15.9 billion in 2013, across eight major countr...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Nemus' glaucoma drug secures patent in Japan

Nemus Bioscience Inc. has announced that the pro-drug of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in-licensed from the company's resea...

October 26, 2015 | Monday | News
Israel firm to develop epilepsy drug in China

Singapore: Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) has approved Israel based D-Pharm to conduct clinical development...

April 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
UK pours $500 mn in genome sequencing

Singapore:  In a move to accelerate genome sequencing and bring breakthrough in cancer treatment in the country, UK has...

August 1, 2014 | Friday | News
Mochida seeks Ulcerative Colitis drug approval in Japan

Tokyo's Mochida Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. has filed for a new drug application (NDA) for MD-0901 with the Japanese Ministr...

November 6, 2015 | Friday | News
Sanofi terminates NaP2b inhibitors development deal with Ardelyx

Singapore: Sanofi has terminated NaP2b inhibitors development deal with US based Ardelyx, a clinical-stage biopharmaceut...

September 3, 2015 | Thursday | News
AB SCIEX, Dalton Pharma to advance antibody drug conjugate analysis

Singapore: Global technology firm AB SCIEX and Dalton Pharma Services have formed a research collaboration to develop An...

August 27, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Profits - A stumbling block for Ebola research

Singapore: Global experts have commented that the lack of adequate funding was a major drawback that discouraged researc...

September 16, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Aussie firm to initiate oncology clinical trial in Europe

Singapore: Australia based drug discovery company, Viralytics, has recieved UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulat...

November 14, 2014 | Friday | News
AMRI receives NIH contract for clinical drug product

Singapore: Clinical research firm, AMRI, has received a 10-year federal contract award from the National Institutes of H...

January 23, 2015 | Friday | News
Singapore start-up progresses in Alzheimer's drug

Singapore: Singapore start-up and Scotland based TauRx Therapeutics is progressing in its two Phase III clinical trials ...

September 22, 2014 | Monday | News
Novartis: Lucentis reduces AMD blindness by 50%

Singapore: Novartis revealed new clinical data associated with the eye drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) admist a total of 209...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Genovate, ScinoPharm co-develop Hep B Drug

Singapore: Taiwan based Genovate Biotechnology and ScinoPharm have jointly developed the highly potent oral generic drug...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Roche acquires respiratory therapy firm at $8.3 bn

Singapore: Global biopharmaceutical company, Roche, has acquired InterMune, a biotechnology company focused on the resea...

August 27, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Neurocrine Biosciences collaborates with Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma

Nasdaq-listed Neurocrine Biosciences has entered into an exclusive collaboration and licensing agreement for the develop...

April 5, 2015 | Sunday | News

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