A re-think on site staff competency training required

When drugs are trialed in patients, they move into a clinical setting in which the busy routine care of patients, rath...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | Opinion
Catalent Pharma opens new clinical supply facility in Japan

Tokyo: New Jersey-headquartered Catalent Pharma Solutions, the leading global provider of advanced delivery technologies...

January 20, 2016 | Wednesday | News
Strong clinical trial infrastructure puts Australia in a strong position

Australia's strong history of quality and experience in clinical research is well known, and whilst being a comparativ...

September 11, 2013 | Wednesday | Opinion
Crizotinib phase II study in East Asian Patients meets end point expectations

OxOnc Development LP has announced that Study OO-1201, a phase II open-label, single-arm study of crizotinib in East Asi...

June 6, 2016 | Monday | News
BSA-CMR Survey: Asian CROs optimistic in a gloomy pharma market

Over the past four years, BioSpectrum Asia in association with CyberMedia Research (CMR) has been capturing the key br...

September 18, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
Cogstate bets big on its cognitive test Cognigram

Singapore: Australian company Cogstate has earned overall revenue of $6.14 million and a net loss of $0.49 million in th...

February 20, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
Parexel acquires regulatory info firm Liquent

Singapore: Parexel International has acquired all of the outstanding equity securities of Liquent, a leading global prov...

December 28, 2012 | Friday | News
Local CROs and their challenges

Singapore: Monitoring a clinical study is an important challenge faced by local as well as global CRO where the sponsor ...

October 14, 2014 | Tuesday | Opinion
Dystrophy association, Quintiles make patient registry

Singapore: Quintiles and Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) have formed a partnership to develop and implement the US ...

October 9, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Novotech expands in Asia

Singapore: Australia based Novotech has strengthened its Hong Kong operation with expansion of its manpower base. The c...

January 16, 2015 | Friday | News
WHO demands transparency in clinical trial results

Singapore: In a study that analysed reports from large clinical trials (more than 500 participants), registered on Clini...

April 16, 2015 | Thursday | News
URMC launches new heart device trial in Asia

Singapore: Cardiologists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, US, are launching a new study in an effort to im...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
EU court thwarts AbbVie attempt to access data

Singapore: European Medicines Agency (EMA) has been ordered by the General Court of the European Union not to provide do...

May 2, 2013 | Thursday | Regulatory
Translation of ideas is Australia's key to growth'

Over the past decade the world's centre of economic gravity has shifted from US and Europe to Asia at a speed and scale ...

September 30, 2014 | Tuesday | Analysis
WuXi acquires US based CRO

Singapore: Pharma and biotech R&D service provider, WuXi PharmaTech, has acquired XenoBiotic Laboratories, a contrac...

October 2, 2014 | Thursday | News
INC research expands presence in Japan with new Osaka office

INC Research Holdings Inc, a leading, global phase I to IV contract research organization (CRO), has announced the reloc...

May 26, 2016 | Thursday | News
CRO Survey: Trials across China

Singapore: Clinical trials registered: 5,276 Growth in China's clinical research sector is projected to be around 20 per...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | Analysis
NIH gets candid on Indian clinical trial cancellations

Singapore: Days after cancelling around 40 ongoing clinical trials in India, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has...

July 19, 2013 | Friday | Regulatory