Korea's Seegene appoints new CEO for its US subsidiary

Seegene Inc., South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics company, has announced the appointment of Dr. Richard S. ...

March 3, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korea suggests disinfecting COVID-19 with plasma filter

A research team led by Nano-Bio Convergence at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) succeeded in develop...

March 2, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea-based GI Innovation strengthens focus on next-gen innovative immuno-oncology

GI Innovation, based in South Korea, has signed a biomarker joint research MoU with CellKey, a Glycoprotein biomarker de...

February 28, 2022 | Monday | News
WHO establishes global bio-manufacturing training hub in Korea

The World Health Organization (WHO), the Republic of Korea and the WHO Academy have announced the establishment of a glo...

February 25, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea develops electronic skin that can feel in real time

A research team at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea, in collaboration with the Department...

February 23, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korea to run training programme on vaccines and biologics development

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) has been designated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Republic of ...

February 17, 2022 | Thursday | News
Solve.Care Korea appoints Dr Uhn Lee as President

Solve.Care has announced the appointment of Dr Uhn Lee as the company’s president in Korea. Dr Lee has more than 3...

February 16, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korean startup Seegene inks supply deal of 4 M COVID-19 tests with Brazil

Seegene Inc, South Korea's molecular diagnostic startup, has announced that it has signed a supply deal with t...

February 11, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea's Bridge Biotherapeutics to uncover new druggable sites in oncology, immunology

Bridge Biotherapeutics, a South Korean clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel drugs for inflam...

February 8, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea to offer inhaled COVID-19 antibody cocktail therapy

Celltrion Group, based in South Korea, has submitted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application to conduct a global P...

February 7, 2022 | Monday | News
Korean firm EuBiologics receives approval for Ph III trial of COVID-19 vaccine

EuBiologics, a South Korean biotech company, has announced that EuCorVac-19, a COVID-19 vaccine candidate obtained appro...

February 4, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea's Samsung Biologics buys full ownership of Samsung Bioepis from Biogen for $2.3B

South Korea-based Samsung Biologics has reached an agreement with Biogen for the buyout of Biogen's stake in the Sa...

January 28, 2022 | Friday | News
Korea proposes ultrasound stimulation as effective therapy for Alzheimer's Disease

A viable treatment strategy for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) involves reducing abnormal protein accumulation in the bra...

January 25, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea uses gold nanoparticles to develop diagnostic platform for COVID-19

Researchers from Chung-Ang University in South Korea have introduced a novel nanotechnology-based platform that can...

January 21, 2022 | Friday | News
Seoul Semiconductor shows myopia improvement using 'SunLike Lighting'

South Korea-based Seoul Semiconductor has confirmed SunLike lighting’s effect on improving myopia, along with...

January 17, 2022 | Monday | News
Korean startup Seegene unveils blueprint for MDx future

Seegene Inc, South Korea-based molecular diagnostics (MDx) startup, has unveiled its blueprint for the future and introd...

January 14, 2022 | Friday | News
South Korea approves Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

US-based Novavax, Inc. and SK bioscience, Co. Limited, a vaccine business subsidiary of Korea-based SK Group, have annou...

January 13, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korean firm partners with Sanofi for Parkinson's Disease treatment

ABL Bio, Inc., a South Korea-based clinical-stage biotech developing bispecific antibody technology for immuno-oncology ...

January 12, 2022 | Wednesday | News
South Korea-based SK Inc. invests $350 M in ‘Centre for Breakthrough Medicines’

The Centre for Breakthrough Medicines (CBM), based in the US, has received $350 million in equity financing from South K...

January 11, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea-based LISCure Biosciences explores treatment for rare liver diseases

LISCure Biosciences Inc., a South Korea-based biotech startup, has executed a research collaboration agreement with US b...

January 7, 2022 | Friday | News
Korean startup Astrogen to use AI for drug design against Parkinson’s Disease

South Korea-based startup Astrogen and Paris-based firm Iktos have announced a research collaboration to use A...

January 6, 2022 | Thursday | News
Korean firms to develop new compounds for potential anti-seizure medication

BIORCHESTRA and SK Biopharmaceuticals, based in South Korea, have forged a partnership to research and develop new ...

January 5, 2022 | Wednesday | News
Korean firm GC Cell to expand availability of Immuncell-LC for liver cancer

South Korea-based GC Cell and Indian firm Rivaara Immune have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement, pursuant to...

January 4, 2022 | Tuesday | News
Korea introduces low-cost artificial cochlear implant 'Sullivan'

South Korea-based startup TODOC has developed an artificial cochlear implant 'SULLIVAN'. Based on the vision of co...

January 3, 2022 | Monday | News
Korea's iMedisync develops world's first integrated wireless brain EEG

iMediSync, a leading AI-driven early detection and therapeutic platform for optimal brain health from Seoul, South ...

January 1, 2022 | Saturday | News
Korean startup ImmuneOncia enhances biologics portfolio for cancer patients

ImmuneOncia Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage, immuno-oncology startup in South Korea, has announced that a Memorandu...

December 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
South Korea’s SK bioscience expands manufacturing agreement for Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine

Novavax, Inc. and SK bioscience, Co. Limited, a vaccine business subsidiary of Korea-based SK Group, have announced the ...

December 27, 2021 | Monday | News
Curocell opens 'CAR-T Manufacturing GMP Facility' in Korea

Curocell, currently on PhaseⅠCAR-T Therapy clinical trial with CRC01 (anbalcabtagene autoleucel), has recently broken ...

December 24, 2021 | Friday | News
CEPI backs Korea to develop ‘variant-proof’ vaccine candidate

Norway-based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and South Korean firm SK bioscience (SK) have an...

December 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Prestige BioPharma commences construction of Innovative Discovery Centre in Korea

Prestige BioPharma (PBP), a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical with operations in US and South Korea, has commenced const...

December 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea offers accurate early cancer diagnosis with a drop of blood

Liquid biopsy, which detects tumor DNAs in the blood, is not only more convenient than the biopsy that requires collecti...

December 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea issues marketing authorization to Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

American firm Moderna has announced that the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea (MFDS) has issued a marketing aut...

December 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea’s Samsung Biologics expands strategic manufacturing partnership with AstraZeneca

South Korea-based Samsung Biologics continues its strategic biopharmaceutical manufacturing collaboration with AstraZene...

December 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
HDT Bio initiates RNA COVID-19 vaccine trials in South Korea

HDT Bio Corp., a US-based developer of immunotherapies for oncology and infectious diseases, and Korean biotech Quratis ...

December 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea-based Seegene introduces PCR test for all VOCs in single tube

Seegene Inc., South Korea based molecular diagnostics company, has unveiled another series of diagnostic test that detec...

December 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea offers niclosamide-based drug as possible cure for COVID-19 variants

Experimental results have been published for the first time showing that an antiviral drug containing niclosamide, an an...

December 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea launches new prestigious award for vaccine industry

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is joining hands with SK bioscience, a leading biopharmaceutical company in So...

December 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Standigm, Institut Pasteur Korea team up for AI-based drug discovery research on TB

South Korea-based startup Standigm Inc. has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Institut P...

December 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Prestige BioPharma opens global-scale vaccine centre in South Korea

Prestige BioPharma (PBP), a Singapore-based biopharmaceutical with operations in USA and South Korea, has announced the ...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea-based ST Pharm takes leap towards world's largest oligonucleotide CDMO

ST Pharm Co. Ltd., an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) ...

November 30, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Lunit raises $61M from global healthcare investors

South Korea-based startup Lunit, a leading medical AI provider, has raised $61 million in its Pre-IPO fundrais...

November 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Sartorius expands activities in South Korea

The life science company Sartorius is investing around 270 million euros, some $300 million, through the end o...

November 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea develops micro-needle bandage for cardiac tissue regeneration

A research team at South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) has developed a treatment for...

November 19, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea addresses health security at first 'World Emerging Security Forum'

A number of distinguished global leaders and experts joined the first World Emerging Security Forum, which took place in...

November 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea approves 'donepezil patch' for treating Alzheimer’s-type dementia

Icure Pharmaceutical Inc. has announced that its donepezil patch, a treatment of Alzheimer’s-type dementia, r...

November 17, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Lunit gets FDA nod for AI-based chest X-ray triage solution

South Korea-based startup Lunit has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its AI-powered c...

November 16, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea's wearable heart monitoring device enters into British market

Sky Labs, a South Korea-based healthcare startup, is fully advancing into the British medical device market based on &ls...

November 15, 2021 | Monday | News
NIH injects $8.9M to identify genetic causes of depression in South Korea

A team of researchers will lead the largest population study of its kind aimed at learning more about the genetic variat...

November 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea's GI Innovation inks MoU with Merck for bio drug development

South Korea-based GI Innovation has inked a biopharmaceutical manufacturing and development based Memorandum o...

November 10, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea announces first MedTech summit in June 2022

The 1st MedTech Korea Summit 2022 (MKS 2022) is scheduled on 21st - 22nd June, 2022 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. MKS 20...

November 9, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea develops novel sweat-collecting patch for blood sugar monitoring

Sweat is an effective body fluid for analyzing bioanalytes in the body without collecting blood. The sweat sensor can re...

November 8, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea develops microbot therapeutics delivery system for oesophageal disorders

A group of scientists at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Kyungpook National Universit...

November 5, 2021 | Friday | News
South Korea creates artificial intestinal model to develop new drugs

A research team at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has recently developed an in...

November 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korean startup Exosystems raises $3.9M to expand musculoskeletal system care

Exosystems, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based digital healthcare company and a member of Born2Global Centre, ha...

October 29, 2021 | Friday | News
South Korea partners with Europe for innovations in health and science

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea and the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI) have signed...

October 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
GC Labs launches first microbiology 'Total Lab Automation' system in Korea

GC Labs, a leading clinical diagnostics company in Korea, has introduced WASPLab® (bioMerieux, France), th...

October 26, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea offers smarter medical treatment with novel sensor technology

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have designed a thin polymeric sensor...

October 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea builds technique to measure blood flow in brain in 'Real Time'

Cerebral blood flow (CBF), which supplies oxygen and nutrients to our brain, is a crucial indicator of brain health. Inf...

October 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Korean startup D&D Pharmatech secures $51M ahead of IPO in 2022

D&D Pharmatech Inc., a South Korea-based clinical-stage biotechnology startup focused on development and commerciali...

October 20, 2021 | Wednesday | News
South Korea to develop composite materials for new-gen implants

A research team from Russia-based Tomsk State University and their colleagues from South Korea are developing compo...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea's Genematrix receives CE-IVD mark for HPV detection kit

South Korean biotech firm Genematrix has announced that 'NeoPlex™ HPV29 Detection', which can collectively diagnos...

October 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korean startup Vuno strengthens AI integration into X-ray devices market globally

South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) developer, VUNO Inc., has closed a deal with global medical device manufacture...

October 6, 2021 | Wednesday | News
GenScript establishes Korean legal entity to accelerate commercialization

GenScript, a global biotech company, has established a legal entity "GenScript Biotech Korea Ltd." to strength...

October 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea inks MoU with US for collaborative vaccine research

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea, the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Develop...

September 30, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korean firm Seegene unveils fully automated molecular testing system

South Korea-based Seegene Inc. has unveiled a fully automated PCR (MDx) test system AIOS.  It provides high throug...

September 29, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea plans to introduce AI-empowered robotic intervention device, with clinical trials

CGBIO Inc., a Korea's Regenerative Medicine company, has announced a successful partnership agreement with NDR Medical T...

September 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korean firm Celltrion wins order worth $626M from US military for COVID-19 Ag test

Celltrion has announced that the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) under the Department of Defense has awarded Celltri...

September 24, 2021 | Friday | News
US approves first ophthalmology biosimilar, developed by South Korea

South Korea-based Samsung Bioepis has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BYOOVIZ...

September 23, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea fully approves first monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19

Celltrion Group has announced that the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has approved regdanvimab (CT-P59),...

September 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea to establish national digital library on health and genome data by 2028

National Project of Bio Big Data in Korea has selected US-based Illumina technology for the second pilot project in thei...

September 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea investigates link between vaccine side effects and antibody formation

A joint research team led by Professor Park Wan Beom of Seoul National University Hospital and Professor Song Kyung-Ho o...

September 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea strengthens position in precision medicine market for liquid biopsy

German firm Molecular Health GmbH will collaborate with South Korean startup EONE-Diagnomics Genome Center (EDGC) to hel...

September 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
South Korea's POSTECH to raise future medical scientists

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has recognized the bio sector as a key future ...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
South Korea hosts Global Bio Conference 2021

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (Minister Kim Ganglip) at South Korea will hold the Global Bio Conference 2021 enti...

September 10, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea develops handheld device to diagnose cancer without radiation

A team of scientists at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has developed a handhel...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea offers osteoarthritis treatment by once-a-year injection

A group of researchers at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and Shinpoong Pharmaceutical, in Sou...

September 6, 2021 | Monday | News
Soaring South Korean medical devices market

In May 2021, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), the government of South Korea reported that for the fi...

September 7, 2021 | Tuesday | Opinion
Korea brings new insights to improve understanding of rare diseases

Genomic scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have revealed new insights in...

September 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea's CancerRop becomes largest shareholder of cancer vaccine firm Oxford Vacmedix

South Korea-based CancerRop has announced a jump start in the global vaccine hub for COVID-19 mRNA (messenger ribonuclei...

August 31, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea approves new technology for reducing appearance of fine lines & wrinkles

Israel-based startup Sofwave Medical has received approval from the Korean Ministry of Foods and Drug Safety (MFDS) to m...

August 30, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea develops artificial cancer model as tool for personalised medicine

A research team led by South Korea-based Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in collaboration with Pu...

August 27, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea to build world's first clinical-grade exosome GMP manufacturing facility

ExoCoBio Inc. has announced the initiation of its "Project EGMP", starting with the construction of the world's first ex...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
CBC-led firms pick 46.9% equity interest in Korea's largest medical aesthetics company

A consortium led by CBC Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 46.9% equity interest in Hugel, Inc. f...

August 25, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea lays focus on developing clinically relevant human-scale living organs

A team of researchers at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has developed decellul...

August 23, 2021 | Monday | News
Korean AI drug discovery company expands global footprints with new office at UK

Standigm, a leading workflow AI drug discovery company from South Korea has opened a new office in Cambri...

August 20, 2021 | Friday | News
Daewoong Pharma, Hanall Biopharma invest $1M for new cancer cell therapies

Daewoong Pharmaceutical and Hanall Biopharma of South Korea are expanding their global open collaboration init...

August 20, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea develops hybrid hydrogel platform for rheumatoid arthritis treatment

A group of researchers at the Department of Chemistry at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in co...

August 18, 2021 | Wednesday | News
FedEx delivers COVID-19 vaccines to South Korea

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, delive...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
HDT Bio, Quratis to co-develop innovative COVID-19 vaccine in Asia

US-based HDT Bio Corp has announced an agreement with Korean biotech Quratis Inc. to co-develop HDT’s revolutionar...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Korea mimics atherosclerotic coronary artery using 3D-printing

A research team at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in South Korea has succeeded in mimicking the a...

August 12, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea's SK bioscience plans Ph III COVID-19 vaccine trial in multiple countries

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is partnering with SK bioscience of South Korea to conduct Phase III clinical ...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Asia Pacific’s radiologists explores AI and telehealth to improve diagnosis

Eight in 10 radiologists in Singapore, Australia and South Korea (80%) believe that artificial intelligence (AI) wi...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | Analysis
Korea offers new insights into lung damage during COVID-19​

An immunology research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has found that a...

August 5, 2021 | Thursday | News
Yuyu Pharma to distribute Novartis Korea's prescription medicines

Yuyu Pharma and Novartis Korea have entered into an agreement in which Yuyu will have exclusive distribution rights for ...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea's LOTTE Chemical expands development of PP materials for vaccination syringes

LOTTE Chemical, based in South Korea, has produced the polypropylene (PP) required for medical applications using German...

August 2, 2021 | Monday | News
908 Devices expands strategic distribution network in APAC

US-based 908 Devices, a pioneer of purpose-built handheld and desktop mass spectrometry devices for chemical and biomole...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
Industry-academia partnership in South Korea for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis treatment

Deargen, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drug discovery and development startup, has signed an agreement with So...

July 28, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea helps India prepare for 3rd COVID-19 wave

Six South Korean companies have joined hands to offer their help to the Delhi government, India with medical equipment a...

July 26, 2021 | Monday | News
Korean firm Celltrion developing solution to treat COVID-19 patients at home

Inhalon Biopharma, Inc., a US-based clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing an inhaled "muco-trapping" anti...

July 23, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea develops world's first 'brainwaves' based healthcare technology

After 3 years of R&D, Hyundai Mobis, based in South Korea, has finally succeeded in developing M.Brain, a new health...

July 22, 2021 | Thursday | News

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