Material science firm Crystal to open lab in China

Singapore: Crystal Pharmatech is going to open its laboratories in China in order to provide customized, materials scie...

January 2, 2013 | Wednesday | News
ShangPharma celebrates 10 years with Eli Lilly

Singapore: ShangPharma, a China-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development outsourcing company, cel...

June 5, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Google, Facebook, Apple invite nominations for 2014 'Breakthrough Prize'

Singapore: Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation has opened its process of online nomination for the 2014 prize...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Bionomics cancer trial shows +ve results

Singapore: Australian drug discovery firm, Bionomics, has received positive results in the phase I clinical trial of its...

February 3, 2014 | Monday | News
New drug slows cancer significantly

Singapore: A study by University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers demonstrated that a new drug has dr...

December 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
Shionogi launches London headquarter

Singapore: Japan-based pharmaceutical company Shionogi has launched its new European Headquarters in London, UK, to be c...

July 6, 2012 | Friday | News
Tetraphase antibiotic gets FDA QIDP designation

Singapore: US-based Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals has received approval from US FDA for its lead antibiotic product candida...

July 22, 2013 | Monday | Regulatory
Zhejiang Medicine, Ambrx to develop antibody drug conjugate for breast cancer

Singapore: Clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, Ambrx and China's Zhejiang Medicine (ZMC) have formed a collaborati...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Novartis to ship 30 mn flu vaccine to US

Singapore: Novartis plans to ship around 30 million doses of its influenza vaccines including Fluvirin and Flucelvax to ...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
FDA warns Genentech researcher for trial data validity

Singapore: The US FDA has given a warning to Dr Bernard Doft, a phase III investigator of Genentech's Lucentis macular d...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Pall to acquire Atmi for $185 million

Singapore: Pall Corporation, a developer of filtration, separation and purification technology, has decided to acquire A...

February 3, 2014 | Monday | News
Now 9-yr-old girls can use Cervarix for cancer

Singapore: Cervarix has now been approved for use in females aged nine-to-25 years to prevent persistent infection, prem...

May 7, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Novotech to support drug development in Korea

Singapore: Australian clinical research organization, Novotech, has partnered with Korea Drug Development Fund (KDDF) to...

July 5, 2014 | Saturday | News
Xiangxue Pharma acquires rights for Kinex KX02

Singapore: Kinex Pharmaceuticals executed a license agreement with Xiangxue Pharmaceuticals granting Xiangxue Pharmaceut...

May 22, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Alchemia appoints new chairman

Singapore: Alchemia, Australia based drug discovery and development company, has appointed Mr. Santo J. Costa as non-exe...

February 11, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Bionomics, Merck Serono end agreement

Singapore: Australian company Bionomics and Merck Serono, a division of Merck, Darmstadt Germany, have mutually ended t...

June 15, 2012 | Friday | News
Chinese, Hong Kong scientists map H7N9 risk infection

Singapore: A map of avian influenza (H7N9), comprising of bird migration patterns and estimations of poultry production ...

May 8, 2013 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca, Alchemia sign $240 mn drug deal

Singapore: Alchemia signed a multi-target, drug discovery collaboration with AstraZeneca. The collaboration includes the...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Takeda gets Japanese NDA approval for obesity drug

Singapore: Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical and Amsterdam-based Norgine has received Japanese Ministry of Health, Labo...

September 23, 2013 | Monday | News
Lilly reveals phase III trial data on back pain

Singapore: Eli Lilly and Company published data from a phase III trial comparing the effects of FORTEO (teriparatide, rD...

August 8, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Takeda's diabetes drug gets Chinese FDA nod

Singapore: Japanese major Takeda Pharmaceutical has said that the China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has ...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Aveo, Astellas report cancer trial results

Singapore: Aveo Oncology and Astellas Pharma announced overall survival (OS) for tivozanib, an investigational agent, fr...

February 19, 2013 | Tuesday | News
UK, Belgium nod for Bone Therapeutics' therapy

Singapore: Europe-based Bone Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative cell therapy products for t...

October 4, 2013 | Friday | News
Japan, Singapore to bring innovation in drug, device, technology

Singapore: Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture's Global Collaboration Center for Life Innovation (GCC) and the Agency for Scienc...

November 29, 2013 | Friday | News
Cancer claimed 8.2 mn lives in 2012: UN

Singapore: Cancer is the biggest cause of mortality worldwide as the killer disease claimed an estimated 8.2 million liv...

February 4, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Protagonist, Ironwood expand peptide R&D deal

Singapore: US-based Protagonist Therapeutics and Australia-based Ironwood Pharmaceuticals expanded their research collab...

December 21, 2012 | Friday | News
UK recommends BMS's Yervoy for skin cancer

Singapore: National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has decided to recommend Bristol-Myers Squibb's Y...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
Singapore opens research centre for circulating tumour cell

Singapore: National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and Clearbridge BioMedics, in partnership with the Pathology Departme...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
TauRx gets $10.5 mn funding from Dundee Corp

Singapore: Singapore-based TauRx Pharmaceuticals recieved equity investment of $10.5 million from Toronto's Dundee Corpo...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
FDA: AbbVie Hepatitis therapy is a 'breakthrough'

Singapore: AbbVie's investigational direct-acting antiviral (DAA) combination with and without ribavirin for the treatme...

May 7, 2013 | Tuesday | News
NIH to develop therapeutics for nicotine addiction

Singapore: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), US, has launched three projects that will focus on development of t...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
NZ firm to raise funds for Australia trial

Singapore: Innate Immunotherapeutics, a New Zealand-based company, will raise further funds in the second half of 2012 t...

September 6, 2012 | Thursday | News
TSRI, Takeda expand research collaboration

Singapore: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and Takeda Pharmaceutical plan to expand their recent research collabo...

March 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Prima recruits patients for cancer vaccine trial

Singapore: Prima BioMed has commenced recruitment of patients into the Canvas (Cancer Vaccine Study) trial in Europe. P...

March 1, 2013 | Friday | News
Merck pays Bionomics $172mn for pain molecules

Singapore: Bionomics entered in an agreement with Merck, which is also known as Merck Sharp and Dohme outside the US and...

August 1, 2013 | Thursday | News
Bayer initiates trial of new rFVIII to treat hemophilia A

Singapore: Bayer HealthCare started enrolling patients in an international phase II/III trial called PROTECT VIII that i...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | News
Eli Lilly, China firm to co-develop diabetes drug

‎Singapore: China based pharmaceutical company, Yabao Pharmaceutical, has partnered with Eli Lilly to co-develop L...

July 7, 2014 | Monday | News
ScinoPharm, Coland develop cancer generics in China

‎Singapore: ScinoPharm Taiwan and Taiwan-listed, China-based company, Coland, have formed a strategic alliance to ...

May 13, 2013 | Monday | News
VM202 trial completes patient administration

Singapore: ViroMed, a leading biotechnology company, announced the final enrollment and administration of 105 patients f...

June 13, 2013 | Thursday | News
Researchers find gene mutation to lower heart disease

Singapore: By scouring the DNA of thousands of patients, researchers at Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital,...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
EMA to review marketing plea for antipsychotic medication

Singapore: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted the marketing authorization application for review of an aty...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
Chipscreen gets SFDA nod after accelerated review

‎Singapore: China-based Chipscreen Biosciences announced the achievement of the primary endpoint in the pivotal, r...

April 17, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
FDA affirms superiority of Pradaxa over warfarin

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration has affirmed Boehringer Ingelheim's Pradaxa 150mg superior in reducing ischem...

June 7, 2012 | Thursday | News
Sanofi withdraws diabetes drug NDA in the US

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Sanofi has temporarily withdrawn new drug application (NDA) for lixisenatide i...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | News
Amgen to acquire Onyx for $10 bn cash

Singapore: Global biopharmaceutical company Amgen plans to acquire all the outstanding shares of Onyx Pharmaceuticals fo...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | News
Effient trial by Daiichi, Lilly fails to meet primary endpoint

Singapore: The TRILOGY ACS study, a phase III trial comparing prasugrel plus aspirin to clopidogrel plus aspirin in pati...

August 27, 2012 | Monday | News
Astellas Pharma opens office in Singapore

Singapore: Astellas Pharma, Japan's pharmaceutical giant with net sales of $10.7 billion and net income of $881 million ...

December 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
A*STAR, GSK develop medicines for emerging markets

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and A*STAR's Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) have signed a five-y...

April 9, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Aussie firm gets TGA approval for pancreatic cancer drug

Singapore: Australian biopharmaceutical company, Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA), has recieved Therapeutic Good...

March 18, 2014 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Pharmaxis gets grants for fibrotic research

Singapore: Australian pharmaceutical company Pharmaxis' research projects conducted in conjunction with the University o...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Regenerative Therapy for heart failure enters Ph III Trial

Singapore: Belgian biotechnology company Cardio3 BioSciences (C3BS) has received authorization from the Belgian Federal ...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Mesoblast to set up stem cell drug plant in Singapore

Singapore: Australian regenerative drug company, Mesoblast, is planning to expand its global manufacturing base and the ...

May 29, 2014 | Thursday | News
Sanford-Burnham, Daiichi form new alliance

Singapore: US based Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and Japan's Daiichi Sankyo have formed a three year disco...

May 26, 2014 | Monday | News
Boehringer, Eli Lilly to evaluate Trajenta for type 2 diabetes

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly have initiated phase IIIb trial to evaluate the glycaemic efficacy and saf...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Taiwan firm NCE to get priority review in China

Singapore: Taiwan Liposome Company's multi-mechanistic anti-cancer new chemical entity Lipotecan has been accepted into ...

March 21, 2013 | Thursday | News
Astrazeneca, China university in research deal

Singapore: AstraZeneca has signed a research collaboration with Fudan University, one of China's leading academic instit...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Phylogica extends collaboration with Janssen Biotech

Singapore: Phylogica, a leading Australian peptide drug discovery company, has extended its collaboration with Janssen B...

January 31, 2013 | Thursday | News
AstraZeneca, BMS gets positive regulatory feedback on Type 2 diabetes drug

Singapore: Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has provided Ast...

November 29, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Regeneron acquires Sanofi eye care antibodies

Singapore: US-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has acquired exclusive rights to two families of novel antibodies from San...

May 6, 2013 | Monday | News
Teva, Xenon enter $335 mn deal for pain drug

Singapore: Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical and Canada-based Xenon Pharmaceuticals have entered into a collaborative dev...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Linaclotide phase III trial initiated in China

Singapore: Ironwood Pharmaceuticals and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals have announced the initiation of a phase III clinica...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Singapore firm, Stehlin Foundation collaborate on anti-cancer drug

Singapore: NanoMaterials Technology (NMT), a Singapore based company, has signed an exclusive material supply agreement ...

October 15, 2013 | Tuesday | News
AseaCyte gets BioSpectrum award for drug discovery efforts

A meeting between Dr Teo Soo Hwang, current CEO of AseaCyte; Dr Lee Hong Boon from Cancer Research Initiatives Foundatio...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Abraxane cancer trial shows positive results in Australia

Singapore: Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA) is going to publish abstracts related to its phase III metastatic me...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | News
Astellas, Ambit terminate cancer drug deal

Singapore: Japan-based Astellas Pharma and US-headquartered Ambit Biosciences are ending their collaboration for joint d...

March 12, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Roche launches FLOW system

Singapore: Roche has launched FLOW system, a user defined system for workflow chain from primary sample handling to qPCR...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
TB prevention faces gap of $1.6bn: WHO estimates

Singapore: WHO and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria have stressed on strains of tuberculosis with resistance to...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Edison Pharma, DSP enter $4 bn metablosim drug deal

Singapore: US-based Edison Pharmaceuticals has entered into a strategic alliance valued up to $4.295 billion with Japan'...

February 4, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Gilead files NDA for Hep C drug in Japan

Singapore: US-based Gilead Sciences has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to Japan's Pharmaceutical and Medical Dev...

June 30, 2014 | Monday | News
GSK gets EU nod for metastatic melanoma inhibitor

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline has recieved European Commission (EC) marketing authorisation for Mekinist (trametinib) as a ...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Alchemia gets new CEO

Singapore: Brisbane drug discovery and development company Alchemia announces that Mr Charles Walker has been appointed...

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Merck Millipore enhances bioavailability portfolio

Singapore: Merck Millipore is boosting its portfolio for drug bioavailability, including products for all types of dosag...

October 10, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Singapore scientists, clinicians collaborate on 8 projects

Singapore: Singapore has announced 8 biomedical sciences research programmes to advance understanding and treatment of d...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim enriches drug pipeline

Singapore: Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, will acquire the global rights of ...

July 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
China will overtake Japan in R&D spending: Report

Singapore: China's biomedical sector is rapidly transforming itself from a manufacturing base to an innovation hub, inve...

August 8, 2013 | Thursday | News
Astellas gets FDA nod for kidney transplant drug

Singapore: Japan-based Astellas Pharma has received US FDA approval for Astagraf XL (tacrolimus extended-release capsule...

July 22, 2013 | Monday | News
Global collaborations is the way forward for drug discovery

Over the last few decades India has reiterated its capabilities in providing dependable and cost effective chemistry ser...

December 19, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
NIH gives $2.2 mn to VaxInnate for dengue vaccine

Singapore: National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has provi...

April 5, 2013 | Friday | News
Janssen to develop therapy for immunological diseases

Singapore: Janssen Biotech has entered into a license agreement with Astellas Pharma for the worldwide development and c...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
European Commission nod for Novartis' Exjade

Singapore: European Commission has approved Exjade (deferasirox) for the treatment of chronic iron overload requiring ch...

December 26, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
CSL hemophilia therapy gets orphan drug status

Singapore: CSL Behring's novel recombinant fusion protein linking coagulation factor IX with recombinant albumin (rIX-FP...

June 11, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
John Vernachio is Arthritis Foundation research VP

Singapore: Arthritis Foundation appointed Dr John Vernachio as vice president of research, effective April 15. In his ne...

April 16, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
FDA gets biomarker database license from GVK Bio

Singapore: GVK Biosciences is extending its Clinical Biomarker Database (Gobiom) license to the Biomarker Qualification ...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Otsuka, Lundbeck files NDA for schizophrenia drug

Singapore: Japanese firm Otsuka Pharmaceutical and global firm H Lundbeck have submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to...

July 15, 2014 | Tuesday | News
NIH study: Diabetes drug Metformin extends life

Singapore: Long-term treatment with the type 2 diabetes drug metformin improves health and longevity of male mice when s...

July 31, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Accelerating drug discovery process

In the last few years, biotech companies in Korea have targeted innovation in drug development and are building platform...

March 26, 2012 | Monday | News
Boehringer to open $46 mn biologics plant in Shanghai

Singapore: German drug major Boehringer Ingelheim has planned to build a biologics plant in Shanghai, China, to offer co...

June 10, 2013 | Monday | News
Recycled plastic can kill drug-resistant fungi

Singapore: Researchers at Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) and California's IBM Research...

December 10, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Novartis liver cancer trial with Afinitor flops

Singapore: Novartis highlighted that the results of a global phase III study showed that Afinitor (everolimus) did not e...

August 9, 2013 | Friday | News
Oramed submits pre-IND for exenatide to FDA

Singapore: Oramed Pharmaceuticals, a developer of oral drug delivery systems, submitted a pre-Investigational New Drug (...

August 2, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Aussie drug delivery firm raises $19.3 mn

Singapore: Australian drug delivery company, Phosphagenics, has raised $19.3 million via a placement of $16.3 million to...

July 15, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Bayer initiates Phase II/III trial of a new compound for Hemophilia A

Singapore, July 09, 2012: Bayer HealthCare has started to enroll patients in an international Phase II/III trial to eval...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
APAC ovarian cancer drug market to grow modestly'

Singapore: Asia Pacific (APAC) therapeutics market for ovarian cancer will undergo a modest rise in value, from $294.3 m...

January 30, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
Deal with Janssen gets Astellas $65 million up-front

Singapore: Astellas Pharma signed a license agreement with Janssen Biotech under which Janssen has an exclusive right to...

October 2, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Lorcaserin receives positive vote from FDA advisory committee

Singapore: Eisai announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory C...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Biodiem gets US patent allowance for antifungal therapy

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem has received notice of Allowanc...

April 24, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Minoryx Therapeutics receives Orphan Drug Designation for its lead candidate MIN-102

Minoryx Therapeutics, a drug development company specialized in the discovery and development of new drugs for orphan di...

February 22, 2017 | Wednesday | News
Apollo Therapeutics launched the first drug discovery programme

Apollo Therapeutics, the collaborative venture between three world-leading UK universities and three global pharmaceutic...

February 22, 2017 | Wednesday | News
New CoolPal Vertos Advance launched by Pelican BioThermal

US based Pelical BioThermal which is a global leader providing the broadcast and most innovative range of temperature-co...

January 19, 2017 | Thursday | News
According to GBI Research, the growth will primarily be driven by the emergence of novel therapeutics

Singapore: The treatment market for multiple myeloma across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries of China, India, Japan, an...

January 19, 2017 | Thursday | News

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