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

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