Singapore univ prepares for trial of glaucoma drug

Singapore: For glaucoma patients, taking daily medication will soon become a thing of the past. With Nanyang Technologic...

February 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
BioDuro opens discovery lab in Shanghai

Singapore: BioDuro, a PPD Company, has opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory in Shanghai, China, strengthening its ab...

May 16, 2013 | Thursday | News
FDA approves ZALTRAP for colorectal cancer

Singapore: Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals have received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for ZALTRAP...

August 6, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Report on strategies to manage patent protection loss

Singapore: Exclusivity is everything in the pharmaceutical brand business. Without it, power over pricing disappears and...

July 6, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Eisai cancer drug gets orphan drug designation from Japan

Singapore: Eisai has received orphan drug designation from Japan's Ministry of Labour, Health and Welfare for its multi...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | News
QRx Pharma gets FDA inputs on Moxduo

Singapore: Australia-based QRxPharma is proceeding with US FDA to discuss the company's Moxduo new drug application (NDA...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo enrolls patients for edoxaban trial

Singapore: Japan-headquartered Daiichi Sankyo has completed patient enrollment in the global Hokusai-VTE phase III study...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi, Amplimmune join hands for protein R&D

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo and Amplimmune have entered into a strategic collaboration to develop a new therapeutic prote...

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Sankyo halts phase III trial of cancer drug

Singapore: The independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) of the phase III MARQUEE (Met inhibitor ARQ 197 plus Erlotin...

October 4, 2012 | Thursday | News
Women are on greater risk for Alzheimer's disease: Report

Singapore: Carrying a copy of a gene variant called ApoE4 confers a substantially greater risk for Alzheimer's disease o...

April 17, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Boehringer Ingelheim´s Volasertib gets orphan drug designation in EU, US

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Commission have granted orphan drug designation to Boe...

April 17, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Money churning drugs of 2014: Report

Singapore: Gilead's drug Sovaldi for hepatitis C virus, GlaxoSmithKline/Theravance's Anoro Ellipta for Chronic Obstructi...

April 17, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Johnson & Johnson acquires Aragon Pharma

Singapore: Johnson & Johnson has acquired Aragon Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held pharmaceutical discovery and deve...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Chinese medicine improves spinal injury in rats

Singapore: A new study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience demonstrates that Chinese herbal medicine Ji-...

August 21, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Eisai, UCL form neuro R&D alliance

Singapore: University College London (UCL) and Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai, have entered into a new agreement ...

December 14, 2012 | Friday | News
Novartis has a substantial drug pipeline for all diseases

Singapore: Novartis planning to leverage on its R&D pipeline to taste commercial success through 2017. Continuing R&...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
Taiwan research centre to develop dengue vaccine with Janssen

Singapore: BRIM Biotechnology has collaborated with Janssen Pharmaceutica to pursue research, development and commercial...

June 15, 2015 | Monday | News
Phylogica looks for tie-ups in Asia: COO Nick Woolf

Phylogica, a leading peptide drug discovery company based in Australia, has developed a world-class drug discovery platf...

May 15, 2012 | Tuesday | Influencers
Ono ties up with BioFocus for drug research

Singapore: Japanese firm Ono Pharmaceutical and BioFocus, a service division of Galapagos and based in the UK, have sign...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
FDA end-of-phase II for head lice product

Singapore: Specialty pharmaceutical company Hatchtech successfully completed end-of-phase II (EOP2) consultations with t...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
Millennium announces positive results of orteronel study

Singapore: Updated results from a phase II study of orteronel, a selective oral 17,20 lyase inhibitor, dosed without pre...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
3SBio, Selecta join hands to develop gout therapy

Singapore: China based biotech firm, 3SBio, has partnered with Selecta Biosciences to license out pegsiticase (Uricase P...

June 20, 2014 | Friday | News
Patrys begins multiple myeloma trial

Singapore: Patrys, an Australian clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has completed the initial treatment of the fi...

December 10, 2012 | Monday | News
GVK, Onconova to develop cancer drugs

Singapore: GVK Bio and US-based Onconova Therapeutics entered into a novel joint partnership to develop new drugs for c...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Myeloma Network raises cancer awareness

Singapore: Asian Myeloma Network is developing a regional collaboration of medical specialists across Asia to study the ...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Novo Nordisk announces trial data of NovoMix 30

Bangalore: New data from a subgroup analysis of the A1chieve study showed that intensifying treatment with NovoMix 30 (B...

July 19, 2012 | Thursday | News
Boehringer starts phase III leukaemia study

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim has initiated phase III study (POLO-AML-2) investigating volasertib, a selective and pot...

March 4, 2013 | Monday | News
Takeda resubmits NDA to the US FDA for alogliptin

Singapore: Takeda Global Research & Development Center resubmitted New Drug Applications (NDAs) to the US FDA for al...

July 30, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Phylogica achieves research milestone

Singapore: Phylogica, a public Australian peptide drug discovery company, has achieved a research milestone under its co...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Gilead's angina drug shows +ve result in diabetics

Singapore: Gilead Sciences has successfully progressed phase IV Terisa (Type 2 Diabetes Evaluation of Ranolazine in subj...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
AstraZeneca to integrate dendrimer drug delivery technology in oncology portfolio

Singapore: Global Pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca plans to integrate Dendrimer drug delivery technology developed by...

April 7, 2014 | Monday | News
Mundipharma to develop cancer pain patch for German firm

Singapore: Mundipharma, global pharmaceutical company with operations in Singapore, has entered into a license agreement...

April 4, 2014 | Friday | News
TNI Biotech, Hubei Qianjian to develop cancer drugs

Singapore: TNI BioTech and Hubei Qianjiang Pharmaceutical, a leading Chinese pharmaceutical company will co-develop new...

October 19, 2012 | Friday | News
Evotec, Debiopharm ink drug discovey alliance

Singapore: Drug Discovery company, Evotec has inked a research collaboration and licensing deal with Swiss Pharma compan...

April 2, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Aus, Canada study find how diabetes drug metformin works

Singapore: Researchers from St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, in collaboration with re...

November 25, 2013 | Monday | News
Agilent LC/MS for 'dried blood-spot analysis'

Singapore: Agilent Technologies has introduced the Agilent Automated Card Extraction LC/MS system, a fully integrated in...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
AMRI to acquire Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals at $38.2 mn

Singapore: AMRI has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of Cedarburg Pharmaceuticals for...

March 26, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Let's make India known for innovations'

As a scientist-turned entrepreneur, my journey has taken a long time, with many struggles along the way. For an entrepre...

March 25, 2014 | Tuesday | Opinion
Novartis gets FDA approval for chronic idiopathic urticaria drug

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novartis' Xolair (omalizumab) for the treatment of chronic...

March 25, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Drug developed in New Zealand gets go ahead for trial

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for PR610, an anticancer "stealth" drug invent...

August 30, 2012 | Thursday | Regulatory
FDA approves Merck's Keytruda for advanced lung cancer

Merck announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab)monotherapy, the c...

October 7, 2015 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca, KHIDI setup cancer research program

Singapore: AstraZeneca signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (...

March 11, 2014 | Tuesday | News
FDA approves SNDA for BMS-Pfizer DVT prevention drug

Singapore: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a Supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA), co-developed...

March 19, 2014 | Wednesday | News
BioPharma Asia: Bionomics wins Innovative Asian Biotech of the Year Award

Singapore: Australia based Bionomics is recognized as the Innovative Asian Biotech of the Year at BioPharma Asia Industr...

March 17, 2014 | Monday | News
Australia approves drug for cystic fibrosis

Singapore: US-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals has received Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) of Australia approval of ...

July 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Austrianova's trial data proves efficacy

Singapore: Singapore-based Austrianova presented additional safety and efficacy data from a second phase II pancreatic c...

October 15, 2012 | Monday | News
Genentech skin hive drug shows +ve results

Singapore: Genentech's omalizumab has shown success in reducing disease severity in patients with moderate to severe chr...

February 25, 2013 | Monday | News
EU patent for Phylomer ischemia peptides

Singapore: Phylogica has been granted a new European patent (no. 1793841) entitled: 'Peptide inhibitors of c-Jun dimeriz...

April 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific to support research in NUS

Singapore: Thermo Fisher Scientific and National University of Singapore (NUS) have entered into a strategic alliance to...

April 14, 2014 | Monday | News
Daiichi Sankyo reports positive results for tivantinib

Singapore: Biotech company ArQule and Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo have achieved positive results from a randomized, place...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | News
Eisai expands its anti-obesity drug market

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical firm, Eisai has expanded the marketing and supply agreement between its U.S. subsidiary...

November 8, 2013 | Friday | News
Merck gets cancer drug license from Symphogen

Singapore: Symphogen signed an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Merck in Germany for Sym004, an investigationa...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Kinex receives funds from Hong Kong govt ITC

Singapore: US-based Kinex Pharmaceuticals's application for the Small Entrepreneur Research Assistance Programme has bee...

August 2, 2013 | Friday | News
Singapore's first flu vaccine clears phase I trial

Singapore: Influenza vaccine (gH1-Qbeta) developed by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) a...

January 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
Exjade gets FDA nod for iron overload treatment

Singapore: The US FDA has approved Exjade (deferasirox) for the treatment of chronic iron overload in patients 10 years...

January 24, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Customized treatments to dominate oncology therapy

Singapore: Cancer treatments are becoming increasingly personalized, as regulators are approving therapeutics offering s...

July 11, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
GSK, Theravance seek EU nod for COPD drug

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Theravance submitted a regulatory application in the European Union for the investi...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | News
Role of oxidative stress in autism disorder found

Singapore: In an effort to explore biological influences on the varying appearance of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Dr...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
CSL Behring progresses on novel drug for Hemophilia A

‎Singapore: Australia-based CSL Behring achieved improved pharmacokinetic results for its novel investigational re...

July 4, 2013 | Thursday | News
Sanofi begins biopharmaceutical plant construction

Singapore: Sanofi and US-based Transgene have launched the construction phase of the manufacturing platform dedicated to...

January 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
Allied abdominal hernia study shows +ve results

Singapore: Allied Healthcare has achieved positive results in the study of Adapt-treated tissue as a bioprosthetic subst...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Biotron's HIV drug candidate reverses impaired immune system

Singapore: Australia based Biotron's HIV drug candidate BIT225 has demonstrated its ability to reverse HIV-induced impai...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
GRPE elements to help cure HIV via gene therapy

Singapore: A research team from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has discovered an approach that could...

April 16, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Charles River manages 2.9% growth in Q2, 2013

Singapore: Drug development company Charles River Laboratories has marked net sales of $292.9 million in the second quar...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | Company results
Coherus starts ph3 trial of rheumatoid arthritis biosimilar drug

‎Singapore: US based biosimilar therapeutic developer, Coherus BioSciences, has started its Phase 3 trial of CHS-0...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Study: Novartis' Afinitor hinders kidney tumor

Singapore: A phase III study conducted at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, US, has revealed that pati...

January 11, 2013 | Friday | News
Concert Pharma, Celgene enter in $300 mn merger

Singapore: Concert Pharmaceuticals entered into a strategic collaboration with Celgene Corporation directed towards deut...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mother's antibodies may cause autism

Singapore: Researchers at University of California have found that prenatal exposure to specific combinations of antibod...

July 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
CellSeed withdraws stem cell drug application

Singapore: Europe's CellSeed has withdrawn its application for a centralized marketing authorization for the medicine Or...

March 22, 2013 | Friday | News
Biodiem develops killer for drug-resistant microbes

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem is developing an antimicrobial ...

October 18, 2012 | Thursday | News
Afatinib proves efficacy in lung cancer treatment

Singapore: The LUX-Lung 3 Phase III results showed that lung cancer patients taking the novel compound afatinib, an irre...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Openvas by Daiichi Sankyo launched in Mexico

Singapore: Japan-based Daiichi Sankyo has launched antihypertensive franchise olmesartan medoxomil in Mexico under the n...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
Osteoporosis is an emerging crisis in APAC: Report

Singapore: A new report, launched by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), shows that osteoporosis is a loomi...

December 13, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Genting to acquire 20% equity stake in TauRx

Singapore: Singapore-based TauRx Pharmaceuticals has received equity investment of $31.5 million from Genting Management...

November 20, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Nanotherapeutics seeks GE help to step up development

Singapore: Biopharmaceutical company Nanotherapeutics has selected GE Healthcare Life Sciences' FlexFactory biomanufactu...

January 24, 2014 | Friday | News
Steroid pioneer gets Heritage Foundation, BIO award

Singapore: Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) and Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) have selected Mexican steroi...

April 22, 2013 | Monday | Influencers
Austrianova starts cell bank for cancer therapy

Singapore: Austrianova Singapore has established a research cell bank, the first step towards late-phase clinical trials...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Takeda, Dainippon to market schizophrenia drug

Singapore: Japanese companies Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma and Takeda Pharmaceutical have obtained approval for marketing a...

August 13, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Astellas to pay $300 mn for cancer drug conjugates

Singapore: Japan's Astellas Pharma has collaborated with US-based Ambrx for the discovery and development of novel antib...

April 5, 2013 | Friday | News
Jubilant, Janssen expand drug discovery alliance

Singapore: Jubilant Biosys, a subsidiary of Bangalore-based Jubilant Life Sciences, has expanded its drug discovery alli...

February 21, 2014 | Friday | News
Patrys' 2nd group concludes treatment in Germany

Singapore: Patrys completed initial treatment of second group of three patients in its phase I/IIa PAT-SM6 multiple myel...

April 10, 2013 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca biologics R&D arm acquires Amplimmune

Singapore: AstraZeneca's global biologics R&D arm, MedImmune, plans to acquire Amplimmune, which is a US-based biolo...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Biostar, Shaanxi Uni to co-develop liver cancer drug

Singapore: Biostar Pharmaceuticals, a China-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical and health supplement prod...

March 7, 2014 | Friday | News
Otsuka schizophrenia relapse gets FDA nod

Singapore: Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical and H Lundbeck have received US FDA approval for Abilify Maintena (aripipra...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Novogen to develop new class of cancer drugs

Singapore: Australia-based Novogen has acquired a novel drug technology that will be developed as a potentially major cl...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA issues complete response letter for XARELTO

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued a complete response letter regarding a supplemental New Dru...

June 22, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Sanofi to develop novel drugs for drug-resistant TB

Singapore: Sanofi and the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) entered a research collaboration to acce...

September 25, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Lupin aims high with a strong R&D focus

Lupin Pharmaceutical, which aims to be the best transnational pharmaceutical company in the world, stroked 10.64 percent...

June 18, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Phosphagenics appoints three new non-executive directors

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company Phosphagenics has appointed biotech industry veterans Mr Lawrence...

March 4, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
MerLion completes phase I of finafloxacin study

Singapore: Following successful first-in-man phase I and two phase IIa clinical studies with the oral formulation of fin...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News
Changing the paradigm of drug development

Recent promising data on drug approvals in 2011 shows that there were 35 new molecular entities (NME) approved by the FD...

February 8, 2013 | Friday | Opinion
Medivir, Daewoong end hepatitis drug development

Singapore: Sweden-based Medivir has discontinued the development of its hepatitis B compound MIV-210 based on a joint de...

September 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Eisai reveals phase III results of breast cancer drug Halaven

Singapore: Eisai revealed its preliminary results from a recently completed phase III study of Halaven versus capecitabi...

July 10, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Antidepressant can treat sickle cell disease

Singapore: A study by researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School, US, found that antidepressant drug trany...

February 20, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Pharmaxis to launch cystic fibrosis drug in Europe

Singapore: Australian pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis is all set to launch Bronchitol for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | News
UK firm withdraws insulin marketing applications

Singapore: UK's Marvel LifeScience, insulin marketing company, has withdrawn its application for centralized marketing a...

November 28, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Alchemia enrolls patients for cancer trial

Singapore: Alchemia has completed enrollment of patients in a pivotal phase III clinical trial evaluating its lead prod...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Bayer, 5 cancer institutes set up oncology network

Sinapore: Bayer HealthCare in Singapore in collaboration with five research institutions have kaunched new Integrated Tr...

January 10, 2013 | Thursday | News
Daiichi develops antibody to prevent fracture

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo's 24-month randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multi-center phase III clinical trial ...

October 16, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Gilead to halt phase III study of leukemia drug

Singapore: Gilead Sciences plans to halt phase III study evaluating idelalisib in previously-treated chronic lymphocytic...

October 10, 2013 | Thursday | News

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