CytRx gets FDA nod Aldoxorubicin cancer trial

Singapore: US-based CytRx, a biopharmaceutical R&D company specializing in oncology, reached an agreement with the U...

May 10, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
China's Zai Lab raises $100mn

Singapore: China based Zai Lab, an innovative biopharmaceutical company, has secured over $100 million in Series B finan...

January 11, 2016 | Monday | News
CSL files marketing plea for Privigen in Europe

Singapore: Australian company CSL Behring has submitted a variation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) f...

June 1, 2012 | Friday | Regulatory
Orient, NanoCarrier sign deal for Nanoplatin trial

Singapore: Taiwan company Orient Europharma and Japan-based pharmaceutical company NanoCarrier have signed a new agreeme...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | News
Novogen's ovarian cancer drug set for trials in H1 2016

US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen Limited has provided an update on progress regarding the development of Ca...

May 3, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Japanese scientist inch closer to Toxoplasma vaccine discovery

Tokyo: Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite which causes the development of fatal encephalosis or pneumonia in immunod...

November 4, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Australia's Gordagen forays into Japan with Matsumoto's support

Tokyo: Gordagen Pharmaceuticals, an Australian company developing evidence-based nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals, has...

January 6, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Takeda gets NDA approval for VAXEM Hib vaccine in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited has announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has approve...

February 1, 2016 | Monday | News
Aspirin use increases risk of age-related eye disease

Singapore: Researchers at the Centre for Vision Research from the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research (WM...

January 23, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge explores toxicant prediction

Singapore: The Systems Toxicology Computational Challenge run under the sbv IMPROVER umbrella, a crowdsourcing initiativ...

July 20, 2016 | Wednesday | News
University of Dundee, Ono Pharma to collaborate on drug research

A Japanese delegation will initiate a partnership with University of Dundee seeking to develop new treatments for inflam...

February 11, 2016 | Thursday | News
FDA approves Eli Lilly's combination drug for metastatic colorectal cancer

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly's ramucirumab (Cyramza) for use in combination with Fo...

April 27, 2015 | Monday | Regulatory
Scientists use tiniest human protein to heal heart

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IM...

December 9, 2013 | Monday | News
Asia's lung cancer burden

Lung cancer occurs in two types, small cell lung cancer and the more prevalent non-small scale lung cancer. According to...

April 8, 2016 | Friday | Analysis
BMS uses Santaris platform for drug discovery

Singapore: Santaris Pharma, a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medicines targeted to disea...

April 18, 2013 | Thursday | News
Mitsubishi Tanabe to manufacture diabetes drug Tenelia

Singapore: Japanese company Mitsubishi Tanabe has received approval to manufacture and market the selective DPP-4 inhibi...

July 2, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Wockhardt increases investment in R&D

Singapore: Addressing shareholders in the company's annual report, Indian drugmaker Wockhardt said that the company plan...

September 7, 2015 | Monday | News
Sosei' subsidiary Heptares records positive outcome of Schizophrenia drug

Sosei Group Corporation has reported that Heptares Therapeutics, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's Sosei Group Corp...

February 12, 2016 | Friday | News
FDA warns against Mitshubi Tanabe's type 2 diabetes drug

Singapore: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned against type 2 diabetes medicine, canagliflozin (Invokana, I...

September 14, 2015 | Monday | News
Aussie anesthetic firm gets patent from 7 nations

Singapore: Australia-based Drawbridge Pharmaceuticals has been granted patent for its anesthetic formulation Phaxan in t...

October 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Australia's TransBio, DendroCyte to develop antibody for transplant rejection

Singapore: Australia based TransBio and DendroCyte BioTech have entered into a multi-year collaboration to discover and ...

September 22, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Daiichi Sankyo files NDA for Prasugrel in Japan

Singapore: Japanese drug major Daiichi Sankyo submitted a New Drug Application to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welf...

June 19, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Orient launches prostate cancer drug in SE Asia

Singapore: Orient EuroPharma, a specialty pharmaceutical company focused in marketing and commercialization has partnere...

May 27, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Innate Immunotherapeutics completes $9mn IPO

Singapore: Innate Immunotherapeutics has raised $8.9 million (AUD10 million) through its Initial Public Offer (IPO) that...

December 18, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Cadila Healthcare eyeing US, Europe markets

Singapore: With an eye on advanced markets like US and Europe, India's Cadila Healthcare has said that it would soon sta...

September 15, 2014 | Monday | News