NIH cancels 40 ongoing clinical trials in India

Singapore: In what is proving to be a major setback for the Indian clinical research industry, reports reveal that the w...

July 12, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory
Dr Rajput: Enjoy challenges to overcome them

Dr Anuradha Rajput, managing director, Icon Central Laboratories, India, has been working with the company since the pas...

January 18, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
BSA-CMR Survey: India, China lead in APAC CRO sector

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Biotron starts phase II trial for HIV-hepatitis co-infection

Singapore: Australian drug development company, Biotron, has commenced a landmark phase II human trial of its lead an...

November 9, 2012 | Friday | News
INC Research implements CRO accreditation program

Singapore: INC Research, a therapeutically focused global clinical research organization (CRO), has implemented Clinical...

September 10, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Kinex, Hanmi enroll patients for cancer trial

Singapore: Kinex Pharmaceuticals and Hanmi Pharmaceutical announced today that the first patient has been enrolled in Ha...

January 8, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Quest signs $8 mn agreement with Korean parties

Singapore: Canada-based Quest PharmaTech, a pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the tr...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Eurofins acquires Pan Labs unit to expand

Singapore: Eurofins Scientific, which provides analytical support to the global pharmaceutical market, has signed an agr...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
David Johnston to lead PPD's lab services

Singapore: Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) has appointed Dr David Johnston as executive vice president of globa...

August 9, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
Icon to acquire trial services of Cross Country

Singapore: Icon, Ireland-based global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology a...

February 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
PRA expands in China

Singapore: PRA, a clinical research organization, has opened a second office in China to accommodate its continued expan...

August 29, 2012 | Wednesday | News
What is the revenue size, range of CROs in APAC?

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Xenetic recruits patients for anemia drug trial in India

Singapore: UK-based biopharma company, Xenetic Biosciences, said in a statement that the recruitment process for the tri...

September 4, 2013 | Wednesday | News
India's regulatory framework needs lot more work

Everything does not seem to be well in the pharmaceutical industry of Asia's third largest economy - India. Although the...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Analysis
Integrated drug discovery fuels healthy outcomes

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies reap the most benefit from their strategic collaborations, by working with su...

July 9, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
The challenge of patient recruitment in Asia

Recruitment and retention of research participants is often the most labor-intensive and difficult component of clinical...

July 4, 2012 | Wednesday | Opinion
What makes a country competitive for a clinical research?

Any regulatory body's primary concern is to provide safe and efficacious medicine at an acceptable healthcare cost to ...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Quintiles appoints new VP for Asia lab

Singapore: Quintiles appointed Ms Jenny Zhang as VP and general manager of Asian laboratories. She will be responsible f...

September 4, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Johns Hopkins to collaborate with Chinese university

Singapore: The training of next-generation clinical investigators in China is at the core of a new collaboration between...

March 5, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan FDA's new fast-track review process attracts more trials

The loss of patents on the last generation of blockbuster products has forced multinational pharmaceutical companies t...

September 13, 2013 | Friday | Opinion
BSA-CMR Survey: APAC CROs stick to an average of 50 clients

The fifth edition of the annual BioSpectrum Asia Pacific clinical research organization (CRO) Survey, which is conduct...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Solasia appoints Yoshihiro Arai as president

Singapore: Mr Yoshihiro Arai, currently general manager and head of development of Solasia Pharma, has been promoted ...

February 7, 2013 | Thursday | News
GVK BIo, Endo Pharma collaborate on R&D

Hyderabad: GVK Biosciences entered into a collaboration agreement with US-based Endo Pharmaceuticals to discover nove...

January 29, 2013 | Tuesday | News
pSivida enrols first patient in Uveitis trial

Singapore: pSivida, a leader in developing sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye di...

July 3, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Australian CRO expands its operations in HongKong

Singapore: Australia-based contract research organization, Novotech, recently announced that it has expanded its Hong Ko...

January 23, 2015 | Friday | News