Spinifex capitalizes on pain management market

Realizing the need for improved therapies in the highly unmet field of pain management, Australia-based Spinifex has bee...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Gilead's Viread patent revoked in China

Singapore: China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has yanked the patent for Gilead Sciences popular HIV and h...

August 8, 2013 | Thursday | News
Companion diagnostic drug for prostate cancer from Japan

Singapore: Japan's Tokai Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapi...

March 17, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Biogen, Elan drug effective for multiple sclerosis

Singapore: A study conducted on Biogen and Elan Pharmaceuticals's natalizumab has been shown to be effective for treatin...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Roche, AstraZeneca form firm to share R&D data

Singapore: Roche and AstraZeneca entered into a collaboration to share early research data generated by Matched Molecula...

June 27, 2013 | Thursday | News
EMA says no to risky schizophrenia drug

Singapore: European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Product for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a negative ...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
HUYA partners with Shanghai Zhangjiang Biotech

Singapore: HUYA Bioscience International has entered into a collaborative partnership with Shanghai Zhangjiang Biotech a...

March 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
Zydus, Pieris to develop anticalin-based protein drug

Singapore: India-based Zydus Cadila and Pieris, a next generation therapeutic protein R&D company, have entered int...

October 18, 2013 | Friday | News
Eli Lilly and Kowa Pharma report positive results of PREVAIL study

Singapore: Kowa Pharmaceuticals America and Eli Lilly and Company revealed results of the PREVAIL study that was held in...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
Singapore's Aslan secures $34 mn funding

Singapore: Aslan Pharmaceuticals, Singapore biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targeted ...

December 9, 2015 | Wednesday | News
BI drug gets 'breakthrough therapy designation'

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has recieved 'breakthrough therapy' designation from US Food & Drug Administration (...

July 23, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Strides subsidiary gets FDA nod for cancer drug

Singapore: Onco Therapies Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary ofStrides Arcolab, received final abbreviated new drug appl...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Glivec inventor wins Szent-Györgyi Prize

Singapore: Professor Alex Matter, CEO, Experimental Therapeutics Centre (ETC), A*STAR, Singapore, has been awarded the 8...

April 5, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Taiwan FDA nods Ph II trial of Hep C drug

Singapore: China based Ascletis has received Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) approval to start phase II clini...

September 2, 2015 | Wednesday | News
China's 3SBio to jointly develop mAB with Korea's PharmAbcine

Singapore: China based 3SBio has entered into an exclusive licensing deal with Korea's PharmAbcine for the development, ...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
Breast cancer drug market to touch $13.1 bn by 2020'

Singapore: Increased use of targeted therapies, along with a greater uptake of branded drugs and rising incidence popula...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
BMS to develop anti-fibrotic therapies

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and California Institute for Biomedical Research (Calibr...

January 6, 2015 | Tuesday | News
OSDD starts Youtube competition for TB

New Delhi: In an innovative approach to spread awareness about the need for researching new drugs for TB, OSDD, India's ...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
Imugene appoints Mr Charles Walker as CEO

Singapore: Australian drug discovery firm, Imugene, has appointed Mr Charles Walker as Chief Executive Officer of Imugen...

August 26, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
miRNA tools market clocked $110 mn in 2012: Frost

Singapore: Rapid growth in microRNA (miRNA) research over the past two years, which is fuelled by its diagnostic and the...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | Analysis
VolitionRx to study cancer detection device in Singapore

Singapore: VolitionRx, focused on developing blood-based diagnostic tests for a broad range of cancer types and other co...

January 23, 2015 | Friday | News
Japan's Otsuka expands in Australia

Singapore: Japan's firm, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, has established a direct presence in Sydney, Australia, to bring innovat...

January 29, 2015 | Thursday | News
Global prophylactic HPV vaccine market to reach $2.2bn by 2022'

Singapore: The global prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine market value is forecast to experience moderate gr...

March 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
Perrigo rejects Mylan's acquisition bid

Singapore: Irish firm, Perrigo, has declined the acquisition offer from Mylan revalued at USD60 per share in cash and 2....

April 28, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Novartis positive with anti-malaria drug

Singapore: Novartis' novel antimalarial drug, KAE609 (cipargamin) has shown efficacy in Phase 2 trial by demonstrating t...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim acquires Pharmaxis' anti-inflammatory drug candidate

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has acquired investigational drug PXS4728A from Australia based Pharmaxis, to develop it...

May 18, 2015 | Monday | News
Aussie firm gets FDA nod to inititate trial of wet AMD drug

Singapore: Australia based, Circadian Technologies, through its wholly owned subsidiary Opthea has recieved USFDA approv...

June 15, 2015 | Monday | News
Glioblastoma therapeutics market to double in APAC by 2020

Singapore: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) therapeutics market in Asia-Pacific (APAC) is estimated to grow double from USD...

September 19, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Re-engineered antibiotic could fight drug-resistant bacteria

The US scientists have created a promising second-generation antibiotic to fight against the bacteria that commonly caus...

May 26, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Anti-herpes drug may help control HIV: NIH

Singapore: Valacyclovir, a drug indicated to control the virus that causes genital herpes, appears to reduce the levels ...

March 16, 2015 | Monday | News
FDA approves single dosage HIV drug

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved US-based ViiV Healthcare's single dose Triumeq tablet...

August 25, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
DNA repair drug could treat leukaemia: Singapore

Singapore: A team of scientists at National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that a drug originally designe...

August 25, 2014 | Monday | News
Abivax initiates Ph IIa clinical trial of HIV drug

Singapore: Abivax, a leading clinical stage biotech company developing and commercializing anti-viral compounds and huma...

February 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Eisai UK site to make epilepsy drug for US

Singapore: Japan-based Eisai recieved US FDA approval for the US supply of the epilepsy drug Fycompa (perampanel) from i...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
J&J neuro R&D head uses street drug to treat depression

Singapore: Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is contemplating the thought of treating depression using popular street drug...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
FDA's call on Rytary delayed by 3 months

Singapore: Impax laboratories in Taiwan recently announced that FDA had delayed its decision on Rytary, the first non-ge...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Hironic to begin world's first HIFU Urinary Incontinence treatment study in Japan

Singapore: Hironic, based out of Seoul, Korea, is an innovator of medical aesthetic laser and energy devices. The compan...

June 27, 2016 | Monday | News
Japanese GHIT Fund to include diagnostics and drugs for leishmaniasis

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) of Japan, which in the last two years has funded almost $32 mil...

May 22, 2015 | Friday | News
ASLAN raises $43 mn in series C financing round

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, Singapore based biotech company focused on the development of immunotherapies and targ...

January 7, 2016 | Thursday | News
New drug formulation for respiratory system infections

Singapore: A team from A*STAR's Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) and National University Hospital (...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Novartis finds no evidence of wrongdoing in clinical trials

Singapore: Novartis Pharma KK has found no evidence that data on clinical trials for its hypertension drug Diovan had be...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BI, Lilly's diabetes drug Linagliptin shows efficacy

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly's investigational Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) drug dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4...

August 16, 2013 | Friday | News
Actavis 'pregnancy preventer' gets FDA nod

Singapore: US FDA has accepted Actavis' New Drug Application (NDA) for a progestin-only transdermal contraceptive patch ...

May 17, 2013 | Friday | News
Aussie firm Phosphagenics raises $11.45 mn

Singapore: Australian drug delivery company, Phosphagenics, has raised $11.45 million of its $15.29 million capital rais...

July 22, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Patrys gets nod to progress myeloma trial

Singapore: Patrys, Australia's clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has received approval to progress its phase I/I...

January 14, 2013 | Monday | News
Eisai seeks approval for antiepileptic agent in Japan

Singapore: Eisai has submitted a marketing authorization application to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (M...

August 31, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Bayer progresses on APAC hepatocellular carcinoma trial

Singapore: GIDEON (Global Investigation of therapeutic Decisions in hepatocellular carcinoma and of its treatment with s...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Cipla malaria drug gets WHO pre-qualification

Mumbai: Cipla along with the non-profit R&D organization, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), revealed t...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
Boston Strategics gets rights for Eisai's cancer drug

Singapore: Boston Strategics Corp (BSC), a clinical-stage drug research and development (R&D) company has signed an ...

July 10, 2014 | Thursday | News
Activation of mTorc1 causes colon, gastric cancers

Singapore: Associate Professor Matthias Ernst and colleagues from Australia's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have ident...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN announces global license agreement with Almirall

Singapore: ASLAN Pharmaceuticals has obtained the global rights to Almirall's DHODH inhibitor, LAS186323, currently in p...

May 21, 2012 | Monday | News
Ian Frazer gets $200k to make HPV DNA vaccine

Singapore: Professor Ian Frazer and his team at the University of Queensland, have been awarded grant from Australia's N...

December 20, 2012 | Thursday | News
South Korea firm emerges as R&D force

According to the Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors (World Bank Publications, 2006), infectious diseases are one ...

April 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
FDA offers guidance on Alzheimer's drug development

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposal designed to assist companies developing new treatme...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Zydus initiates Ph III trial of Lipaglyn for lipodystrophy

Singapore: India based drug company, Zydus, has initiated Phase III trials of Lipaglyn (Saroglitazar) to evaluate its sa...

June 2, 2014 | Monday | News
Australian firm gets rights to Anamorelin

Singapore: Melbourne-based biopharmaceutical company Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA) has been granted exclusive...

October 15, 2012 | Monday | News
3SBio acquires patents for kidney failure drug

Singapore: China-based 3SBio, which is focused on R&D, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceutical products, acqu...

October 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
Glenmark's MAb drug enters human trials

Singapore: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, a research-driven, global integrated pharmaceutical company announced that its nove...

July 4, 2014 | Friday | News
Avantor launches polysorbates for pharma

Singapore: US-based Avantor Performance Materials has introduced a higher purity Super Refined grade of polysorbate prod...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Novartis pledges to eliminate leprosy

Singapore: Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD) has launched a new leprosy strategy focused on interru...

December 2, 2013 | Monday | News
AstraZeneca begins cancer research in Russia

Singapore: AstraZeneca and NN Petrov Institute of Oncology, one of Russia's leading cancer research institutions, signed...

February 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Tachycardia holds room to grow: Report

Singapore: A rapid heart rate is a common condition among elderly individuals, and represents a potential goldmine for p...

August 3, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
ETC, AstraZeneca form drug R&D partnership

Singapore: Experimental Therapeutics Center (ETC) and Exploit Technologies of Agency for Science, Technology and Researc...

November 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves Gilead's Stribild

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Stribild, a complete once-daily single tablet regimen ...

August 28, 2012 | Tuesday | Regulatory
BNC105 effective in treating cancer

Singapore: Bionomics is going to present clinical trial data from its ongoing US trial of BNC105 in patients with metast...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | News
QRxPharma pain killer's NDA gets FDA response

Singapore: QRxPharma received complete response letter (CRL) regarding the company's Moxduo new drug application (NDA) f...

August 28, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
3SBio to develop JenKem's novel drug for cancer

Singapore: 3SBio, China based biotechnology company, has signed license agreement with JenKem Technology to develop, man...

September 18, 2014 | Thursday | News
Takeda to collaborate with BC Cancer Agency for new drugs

Singapore: Japanese firm Takeda Pharmaceutical has formed a research collaboration with the BC Cancer Agency to explore ...

September 3, 2012 | Monday | News
Teva to acquire migraine drug firm at $825 mn

Singapore: With the strategy to strengthen its pain management portfolio, global biopharmaceutical company, Teva Pharmac...

June 4, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Japan to help export regenerative medicine tech to Qatar, KSA

Singapore: The Japanese government has plans to help private-sector companies in exporting as early as 2015 regenerative...

July 17, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Bayer receives approval for Gadovist injection in Japan

Bayer HealthCare received approval in Japan for Gadovist (gadobutrol) injection for use with magnetic resonance imaging ...

March 30, 2015 | Monday | News
New analysis of EndoBarrier reveals high efficacy

Singapore: Australia-based GI Dynamics has conducted a new meta-analysis that demonstrates EndoBarrier Therapy, an endos...

December 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Novartis announces positive results in COPD portfolio trials

Singapore: Data from the once-daily chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinical trial programs were presented ...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Korea Drug Development Fund collaborates with PAREXEL

Singapore: The Korea Drug Development Fund (KDDF) has chosen PAREXEL International, a leading global biopharmaceutical s...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | News
Non-small cell lung cancer therapeutics APAC market to touch $2.9 bn by 2019'

Singapore: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) therapeutics market value in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, Australia, Ch...

March 19, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
GSK announces failure of cancer drug trial

Singapore: Glaxosmithkline declared that the phase III study of two anti-HER2 agents lapatinib and trastuzumab did not m...

June 5, 2014 | Thursday | News
Singapore invests $60mn to set up nanomedicine research institute

Singapore: Focusing on the medical application of nanotechnology, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore  ...

November 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
NIH to invest $100 mn on HIV research

Singapore: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), US, plans to invest an additional $100 million over the next three ...

December 3, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Clinical trial drugs must adopt highest GMP standards

Singapore: Almac said that Asian clinical trials must adopt highest GMP and GDP standards. Speaking to a news report, Mr...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Merck, Samsung to co-develop diabetes drug

Singapore: Global Pharmaceutical company, Merck, and Samsung Bioepis, a joint venture between Samsung Biologics and Biog...

February 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Excelra, H M Pharma to expand Drug Repurposing Solutions outreach in Europe

Excelra, headquartered in Hyderabad, India, has announced its collaboration with H M Pharma Consultancy (HMPC), a life s...

May 24, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Boehringer offers fast-track path to launch biopharma

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim Biopharmaceuticals has installed a fast track process transfer to commercial scale. Comp...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves Merck's drug for pollen-induced allergic rhinitis

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Merck's RAGWITEK Tablet indicated as immunotherapy for the...

April 21, 2014 | Monday | News
Former Pfizer executive joins Agenix

Singapore: Australian drug development company Agenix has appointed international biomedical business development expert...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | News
NovAliX, Kyowa Hakko Kirin sign deal

Singapore: France-based biopharma company NovAliX entered into a fragment-based drug discovery alliance with Kyowa Hakko...

January 15, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Positive result for Genentech in breast cancer trial

Singapore: Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, has achieved primary endpoint of a significant improvement in HER2-po...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Zytiga, Xtandi to dominate prostrate cancer market

Singapore: Prostate cancer is becoming increasingly common due to globally growing numbers of elderly men, and scientist...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Genzyme multiple sclerosis drug gets TGA nod

Singapore: Australian therapeutic goods administration (TGA) has approved Aubagio (teriflunomide) 14 mg as a new once-da...

November 22, 2012 | Thursday | News
Ex-Novartis employee arrested for fudging data

Singapore: A former employee of the Japanese drug maker Novartis, was arrested with allegations of data manipulation. So...

June 12, 2014 | Thursday | News
Eisai receives positive opinion on epilepsy treatments in Europe

Eisai's UK subsidiary, Eisai Europe, has received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency's Committee for ...

May 28, 2012 | Monday | News
NDA for Lundbeck's vortioxetine with US FDA

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical and H. Lundbeck A/S have submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug...

October 3, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Novartis gets positive regulatory feedback for hive drug

Singapore: Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a po...

January 28, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
FDA green signal for joint GSK-Pfizer HIV drug

Singapore: The US FDA has approved GSK and Pfizer-owned HIV dedicated firm, ViiV Healthcare's, Tivicay (dolutegravir) 50...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
FibroGen, Astellas start trial of anemia therapeutic agent

Singapore: FibroGen and Japanese company Astellas Pharma have initiated the first clinical study in the phase III clinic...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Antisense Therapeutics ties up with China CRO for trial

Singapore: Antisense Therapeutics, an Australian publicly listed biopharmaceutical drug discovery and development compan...

March 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Merck resubmits NDA for ezetimibe, atorvastatin

Singapore: US FDA has acknowledged the resubmission of a New Drug Application (NDA) for ezetimibe and atorvastatin table...

January 3, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Eli Lilly pipeline will counter patent cliff in 2014

Singapore: Eli Lilly and Company has outlined its strategies to face patent cliff expected in 2014. In a statement to in...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
BioPharma Asia: Is Asia ready to boost global drug pipeline?

Singapore: Asia share of global GDP, measured in purchasing power, has increased from 26.8 percent in 2001 to 33.8 perce...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | Analysis
Novo Nordisk obesity drug trial confirms weight loss

Singapore: Novo Nordisk's 56-week double-blind phase IIIa clinical trial with liraglutide has shown that it has the pote...

May 28, 2013 | Tuesday | News
New TB cocktail drug holds great promise

Singapore: A novel anti-TB drug has generated encouraging results in a recent Phase II trial funded by the non-profit TB...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | Analysis

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