EMA gives Patrys cancer drug orphan status

Singapore: Australia-based Patrys, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has been granted orphan drug designation by t...

September 12, 2013 | Thursday | News
Novogen drug candidate effective as anti-cancer agent in preclinical studies

Singapore: US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen's drug candidate, Anisina, has progressed successfully in pre-c...

May 14, 2015 | Thursday | News
Translation of ideas is Australia's key to growth'

Over the past decade the world's centre of economic gravity has shifted from US and Europe to Asia at a speed and scale ...

September 30, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
Researchers develop novel solutions to fight the obesity gene

Singapore: A research team led by scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) has identified several potent i...

October 20, 2014 | Monday | News
China's Innovent raises $100 mn

Singapore: China biotech firm, Innovent Biologics, has raised $100 million in Series C financing led by Legend Capital, ...

January 31, 2015 | Saturday | News
Network Verfication Challenge gains momentum

Singapore: Scientific consensus in the Network Verification Challenge, conducted in Spain from 15-18 June 2015, has exhi...

July 31, 2015 | Friday | News
Today scientists have poor frustration tolerance: Glivec discoverer

Dr Alex Matter, CEO, Experimental Therapeutics Center, A*Star, Singapore, is among the pioneers of the world's first tar...

June 25, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Australia grants $7 mn to uplift cancer research

Singapore: Cancer Council NSW, Australia's non-government cancer research funder, has granted almost $7 million to resea...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
Novogen progresses on drug for paediatric brain cancer

Singapore: US-Australian drug discovery company, Novogen, in conjunction with Australian paediatric cancer researchers, ...

May 8, 2015 | Friday | News
WHO urges nations to act on hepatitis threat

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to act against the five hepatitis viruses that can...

July 26, 2013 | Friday | Analysis
Novogen develops drug to enhance chemotherapy effect

Singapore: Australian drug discovery company, Novogen, has developed anti-tropomyosin drug candidate, Anisina, which has...

July 15, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Eloxatin shows +ve results in tumor inhibition

Singapore: Australia-based Starpharma Holdings has achieved improved tumor-inhibiting efficacy and reduced overall toxic...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Oxycodone patch resumes clinical development

Singapore: Australian drug delivery technology company, Phosphagenics, will be returning to the clinic with its oxycodo...

April 5, 2013 | Friday | News
Drug delivery: 11 technologies of the future

The drug delivery technology landscape is rapidly evolving with new classes of pharmaceuticals and biologics fuelling th...

May 16, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Starpharma appoints Robert Thomas as board member

Singapore: Australia based pharmacuetical company, Starpharma, has appointed Mr Robert Thomas to the Board as a non-exec...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Australia supports budding medical researchers

Singapore: Australia's Balnaves Foundation has donated $450,000 to the University of Sydney's medical school to help pro...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
TGA approves chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting drug

Singapore: Australian biopharmaceutical company, Specialised Therapeutics Australia (STA), and Helsinn, a Swiss group fo...

May 11, 2015 | Monday | News
OTC drug may be key to multiple sclerosis

Singapore: Two approved drugs, an antifungal and a steroid, may potentially take on new roles as treatments for multiple...

April 22, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Green tea for cancer drug delivery

Singapore: A group of researchers from Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) is using green tea ingredien...

October 14, 2014 | Tuesday | News
TauRx pumps $135mn to advance treatment for Alzheimer's disease

Singapore: Singapore and Scotland based TauRx Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a n...

October 9, 2015 | Friday | News
NIH: Gilead's sofosbuvir + ribavirin cures hepatitis C

Singapore: Phase II clinical trials by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)...

August 29, 2013 | Thursday | News
Daiichi forms new firm to treat muscular dystrophy

Singapore: Daiichi Sankyo is going to establish a new company named Orphan Disease Treatment Institute, along with Innov...

February 18, 2013 | Monday | News
Sinovac to supply Hep A vaccine to Jiangsu province

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading China-based vaccine manufacturer, has been selected by the Jiangsu Centers for Dis...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Regeneus clears procedures to initiate Progenza trial for osteoarthritis treatment

Sydney-headquartered Regeneus announced the completion of enrolment of all 20 patients in the STEP trial. Further, a rev...

May 17, 2016 | Tuesday | News
Safety concerns delay launch of Pfizer's arthritis drug Xeljanz

Singapore: Pfizer's high hopes for its JAK3 (Janus kinase) inhibitor, tofacitinib (tasocitinib, CP-690550), now branded ...

November 8, 2012 | Thursday | News

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