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