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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