Japan's Asahi Kasei acquires Germany's Aicuris for €780 M

Aicuris Anti-infective Cures AG has entered into a definitive agreement under which Japan's Asahi Kasei, through it...

February 27, 2026 | Friday | News
EU supports SK bioscience, IDT Biologika and Vaxxas for next-generation influenza vaccine development

South Korea-based SK bioscience has announced that together with IDT Biologika (IDT) and Australian biotechnology compan...

February 26, 2026 | Thursday | News
Sarepta Therapeutics announces commercial launch of ELEVIDYS in Japan for DMD treatment

US-based Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. has announced the commercial launch of ELEVIDYS (delandistrogene moxeparvovec) in Ja...

February 25, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Europe At A Biotech Crossroads As Digital Gaps Challenge Global Ambitions

In this exclusive conversation with BioSpectrum Asia, Alexander Seyf, CEO and Co founder of Autolomous, ...

February 25, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Bruker advances Functional Proteomics 2.0 with timsOmni Mass Spectrometry Proteoform Analysis

US-based Bruker Corporation has announced new advancements to enable Functional Proteomics 2.0 workf...

February 24, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Astellas announces $1.37 B deal with Vir Biotechnology to develop T-Cell therapies for prostate cancer

Japan-based Astellas Pharma and US-based startup Vir Biotechnology have entered into a global strategic collaboration to...

February 24, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's Bora Pharmaceuticals and GSK sign $250 M five year global manufacturing contract

Taiwan-headquartered Bora Pharmaceuticals, a global leader in pharmaceutical manufacturing, and British pharma firm...

February 24, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Sciwind Biosciences partners with Pfizer China to commercialise Biased GLP-1 in China in $495 M deal

Hangzhou Sciwind Biosciences has announced a strategic commercialisation collaboration with Pfizer China for Ecnoglutide...

February 24, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's Formosa Pharmac announces licensing agreement with Australia-based Arrotex for ocular surgery care

Taiwan-based Formosa Pharmaceuticals has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Arrotex Pharmaceuticals...

February 23, 2026 | Monday | News
ImmunityBio to launch ANKTIVA® in Saudi Arabia for bladder and lung cancer treatment

ImmunityBio, Inc., a commercial-stage immunotherapy company based in the US, has announced a partnership with Biopharma ...

February 20, 2026 | Friday | News
Korea's S.Biomedics announces partnership with Catalent to develop and manufacture TED‑A9

US-based Catalent and South Korea-based S.Biomedics have announced a strategic partnership to support the development an...

February 19, 2026 | Thursday | News
Johnson & Johnson expands US footprint with more than $1 B investment in next gen cell therapy manufacturing facility

Johnson & Johnson has announced more than $1 billion investment in a next generation cell therapy manufacturing faci...

February 19, 2026 | Thursday | News
Waters introduces next-generation Microflow LC Columns with MaxPeak Premier Technology

US-based Waters Corporation has launched 1 mm I.D. liquid chromatography (LC) columns with Waters' MaxPeak&tra...

February 18, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Daiichi Sankyo collaborates with BostonGene to accelerate AI-based drug development

US-based BostonGene, the developer of the leading AI foundation model for tumour and immune biology, has announced ...

February 18, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Korean startup Galux raises $29 M to advance AI-driven protein design for drug discovery

Galux, a South Korea-based biotech startup pioneering artificial intelligence (AI)-driven protein therapeutics design, h...

February 17, 2026 | Tuesday | News
QuidelOrtho enters strategic supply agreement to expand global immunoassay portfolio

QuidelOrtho has entered a long-term strategic supply agreement with China's Lifotronic Technology, to expand QuidelOrtho...

February 16, 2026 | Monday | News
Japan's Nxera Pharma licenses GPCR-targeted programme to NewCo

Japan-headquartered Nxera Pharma has entered into a license agreement with a newly established independent company (NewC...

February 13, 2026 | Friday | News
CARsgen invests RMB 370 M to expand CAR-T commercial manufacturing base in Shanghai

CARsgen Therapeutics, a company focused on developing innovative CAR T-cell therapies, has announced that through its in...

February 13, 2026 | Friday | News
Taiwan's PharmaEssentia invests $46 M to build manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico

PharmaEssentia Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Taiwan with deep expertise in the develo...

February 16, 2026 | Monday | News
Galderma accelerates growth with two new launches in Japan

Galderma has announced the launch of Restylane Defyne and Restylane Refyne: the first Optimal Balance Technology (OBT)â...

February 12, 2026 | Thursday | News
OneSource-Hikma partnership secures approval to commercialise generic version of Ozempic® in Saudi Arabia

  India's OneSource Specialty Pharma has received Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) approval of its generic Oze...

February 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Madrigal expands MASH pipeline with siRNA therapies in $4.4 B deal

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a US-based biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabo...

February 12, 2026 | Thursday | News
medisana strengthens home healthcare access in Malaysia and Brunei through strategic partnership with DKSH

Germany-based medisana, a trusted global brand in home health and wellness solutions, has announced a strategic partners...

February 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
SNAP-8: A Next-Generation Peptide Fragment in Molecular Communication Research

Glutamate-Glutamate-Methionine-Glutamine-Arginine-Arginine-Alanine-Aspartate-NHâ‚‚, has emerged as a notable synthe...

February 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
GCCL and Medicover announce strategic collaboration to strengthen multinational clinical trial services

South Korea-based GCCL Co., a data-driven clinical trial services provider, and Germany-based Medicover Integrated Clini...

February 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News