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
Dr Jitendra Singh calls for Mission-based India-Australia technical cooperation

After talks between India's Union Minister for Science and Technology (S&T) Dr Jitendra Singh and Australian&nb...

February 19, 2026 | Thursday | News
AusBiotech & Proto Axiom launch national investor-focused life sciences partnership in Australia

AusBiotech and Sydney‑based life sciences company creator Proto Axiom have signed a Memorandum of  Understanding ...

February 19, 2026 | Thursday | News
Korea supports rapid growth of biopharma companies through global collaboration

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW), South Korea government, and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (...

February 18, 2026 | Wednesday | 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
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
Takeda and Iambic ink $1.7 B deal to advance AI driven design of small molecules

Iambic, a US-based clinical-stage life science and technology company developing novel medicines using its artificial in...

February 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Japan's Saisei Ventures launches bridge-to-biotech venture creation initiative

Saisei Ventures, a pioneering investment firm focused on advancing Japanese biotechnology and therapeutic innovations gl...

February 10, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Innovent inks $8.5 B deal with Eli Lilly for oncology and immunology based medicines

China-based Innovent Biologics, Inc. has announced a strategic collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company, in the US, to a...

February 10, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Precision for Medicine broadens global footprint with new office in Singapore

Precision for Medicine, a global leader in biomarker-driven clinical research and development, has announced the opening...

February 6, 2026 | Friday | News
Richter and Fuji strengthen strategic collaboration in women healthcare segment

Budapest-based Gedeon Richter Plc. and Japan's Fuji Pharma Co. have announced the expansion and further strengthening of...

February 5, 2026 | Thursday | News
Australian trial of personalised vaccines to treat children with deadly brain cancers

A world-first clinical trial will test cancer vaccines designed specifically for children with advanced or treatment-res...

February 5, 2026 | Thursday | News
Japan's GHIT invests $8.8 M in malaria, tuberculosis, and NTD R&D projects

Japan-based Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total investment of approximately JPY 1.39 b...

February 3, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Korea's SK bioscience in-licenses RSV preventive mAb candidate from Gates Medical Research Institute

South Korea-based SK bioscience will advance a novel respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) monoclonal antibody (mAb) for glo...

February 3, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Australia's AdvanCell partners with 48Hour Discovery to develop novel radiotherapeutic for gastrointestinal cancer

Australia-based startup AdvanCell, a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing innovative targeted alpha the...

February 4, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Researchers in Australia open ‘window to the brain’ with powerful cancer tech

Researchers have opened a ‘window to the brain’ with a new diagnostic device that can tell how deadly brain ...

February 2, 2026 | Monday | News
AstraZeneca inks billion-dollar deal with China's CSPC Pharma to expand weight management portfolio

AstraZeneca strengthens its weight management portfolio through a new strategic collaboration agreement with China-based...

February 3, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Japan develops monitoring technique for early diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma

Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness among people who are unable to monitor and manage their intraocular pressure (I...

January 31, 2026 | Saturday | News
Japan strengthening biopharma capabilities

The Asian biopharma landscape is evolving rapidly and undergoing major shifts, expanding focus beyond generics and contr...

January 31, 2026 | Saturday | Opinion
“Neuroinflammation is not only a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease but a key pathological feature in other neurodegenerative disorders”

What was the scientific moment or data point that convinced you NK cell–derived extracellular vesicles could becom...

January 31, 2026 | Saturday | Opinion
The Race to Build Singapore’s Biotech Unicorns

Singapore has one of the most advanced biotechnology industries. Singapore began building its biomedical sciences ecosys...

January 31, 2026 | Saturday | Analysis
AstraZeneca plans $15 B investment in China to expand medicines manufacturing and R&D

AstraZeneca has announced $15 billion investment in China through 2030 to expand medicines manufacturing and R&D. Th...

January 30, 2026 | Friday | News
Japan's Veritas In Silico partners with SpiroChem for discovery of next generation RNA drugs

Swiss firm SpiroChem AG and Japan-based Veritas In Silico Inc. have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understandi...

January 28, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Boehringer Ingelheim, Simcere Pharma collaborate on €1,058 M IBD antibody deal

China-based Simcere Pharmaceutical Group and Germany-headquartered Boehringer Ingelheim have announced a license and col...

January 28, 2026 | Wednesday | News
First fibrotic disease drug of Singapore advances into Phase II clinical evaluation

Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore has noted the announcement by Boehringer Ingelheim of a Phase IIa clinica...

January 21, 2026 | Wednesday | News
AstraZeneca buys remaining China rights to GPC3 armored CAR-T therapy from AbelZeta Pharma for $630 M

US-based AbelZeta Pharma, Inc., a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and developme...

January 21, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Industry-Academic Partnerships Augment Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Innovations

Dr. Peiqing Zhang, Scientific Director, Cytiva (Left) Dr. Timothy Tan, Associate Professor and Leading Investigator, NT...

January 16, 2026 | Friday | Opinion
Taiwan-U.S. innovation ties deepen to bolster AI, semiconductors, and health technology startups

To accelerate the co-development of Taiwan–U.S. startup ecosystems in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors...

January 16, 2026 | Friday | News
AusBiotech joins Austrade's Trade Network for global growth opportunities

AusBiotech welcomes the Australian Government's announcement, made by the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator the Do...

January 16, 2026 | Friday | News
AdCella and Shanghai Cell Therapy Group launch global collaboration on groundbreaking cancer therapy

Australia-based AdAlta Limited, developer of next generation cell and protein therapeutic products, and its cellular imm...

January 15, 2026 | Thursday | News
China's Zonsen PepLib Biotech inks $50 M deal with Novartis for Radioligand Therapy Asset

China-based startup Zonsen PepLib Biotech Inc. has entered into a worldwide license agreement with Novartis for an undis...

January 19, 2026 | Monday | News
Taiwan's Leadgene Biosolutions expands product portfolio for metabolic research

Taiwan-based startup Leadgene Biosolutions has announced the expansion of its product portfolio following its strategic ...

January 14, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Curi Bio launches Asia-Pacific hub following full acquisition of Quvit Bio in South Korea

US-based Curi Bio, the leader in delivering human-relevant functional data for drug discovery and development, has annou...

January 13, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's OBI Pharma inks agreement US-based TegMine Therapeutics for glycan-targeting ADC

Taiwan based OBI Pharma has entered into a commercial license agreement with TegMine Therapeutics, Inc., a San Francisco...

January 13, 2026 | Tuesday | News
China's MediLink signs additional exclusive licensing deal with Roche for $570 M

China-based MediLink Therapeutics has entered into a new collaboration and exclusive licensing agreement with Roche for ...

January 12, 2026 | Monday | News
Revvity collaborates with Eli Lilly to expand access to AI drug discovery models

US-based Revvity, Inc. has announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) that expands acce...

January 12, 2026 | Monday | News
Australia's Avance Clinical strengthens global oncology offering with acquisition of LumaBridge

Avance Clinical, a full-service Australia headquartered contract research organisation (CRO) focused on accelerating cli...

January 7, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Ribo Life Science successfully lists on Main Board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Ribo Life Science Co., a leading company in small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics, has successfully listed on the M...

January 9, 2026 | Friday | News
Xellar, Woojung Bio to advance AI-enabled organ-on-a-chip preclinical models

US-based startup Xellar Biosystems, a globally leading innovator in next-generation artificial intelligence (AI)- a...

January 8, 2026 | Thursday | News
Pandorum Technologies and Nucelion Therapeutics focus on treating ocular diseases in APAC region

Pandorum Technologies, a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company building a next-generation platform for programmab...

January 6, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Insilico Medicine announces $888 M multi-year collaboration with Servier for drug discovery in oncology

Hong Kong headquartered Insilico Medicine, a leading artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, has ann...

January 5, 2026 | Monday | News
Insilico Medicine lists on Hong Kong Stock Exchange, showing largest Hong Kong biotech IPO

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage drug discovery and development company driven by generative artificial intelligence ...

January 2, 2026 | Friday | News
Momentum in Motion: What Will Shape APAC’s Life Sciences Landscape in 2026?

Asia-Pacific’s life sciences landscape has always been shaped by contrasts. It is a region where scale and sophist...

January 3, 2026 | Saturday | Opinion
Japan Pushes Startups to Power the Next Biotech Cycle

The Japanese government has stepped up efforts to strengthen its startup ecosystem, rolling out a series of initiatives ...

January 3, 2026 | Saturday | Analysis
Reshaping Asia’s Healthcare with mRNA Innovation

The COVID-19 pandemic acted as both a challenge and a catalyst, serving as a testbed that fundamentally reshaped the bio...

January 3, 2026 | Saturday | Opinion
The Future of mRNA Is Being Built in APAC

mRNA first entered the global spotlight during COVID-19, turning companies such as Moderna and BioNTech into household n...

January 3, 2026 | Saturday | Analysis
Korea to build collaborative clinical sample analysis network for pandemic response

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), together with four...

December 23, 2025 | Tuesday | News
China’s Jacobio inks immuno-oncology deal worth $1.9 B with AstraZeneca

China-based Jacobio Pharma has entered an agreement with AstraZeneca for its proprietary Pan-KRAS inhibitor JAB-23E73.&n...

December 22, 2025 | Monday | News
Australia develops new antimalarial drug candidate to address growing challenge of drug resistance

Researchers in Australia have developed a new antimalarial drug candidate designed to address the growing challenge of d...

December 22, 2025 | Monday | News
Japan's Meiji Seika Pharma collaborates with MBC BioLabs for global innovation in drug discovery

Japan-based Meiji Seika Pharma has entered into a partnership agreement with MBC BioLabs which is a private organisation...

December 19, 2025 | Friday | News
Japan's PRISM BioLab partners with US-based startup Talus Bioscience for AI-based drug discovery

Japan-based PRISM BioLab and US-based startup Talus Bioscience, Inc. have entered into a collaboration to discover novel...

December 18, 2025 | Thursday | News
Harbour BioMed, Bristol Myers Squibb strike $1B multi-specific antibody deal

China and US based Harbour BioMed has announced a multi-year, global strategic collaboration and license agreement ...

December 19, 2025 | Friday | News
Korea's Galux joins hands with Boehringer Ingelheim to advance AI-driven protein design

Galux, a South Korean biotech startup pioneering AI-driven protein therapeutics discovery, has signed a research agreeme...

December 18, 2025 | Thursday | News
Korean startup MEDI&GENE partners with Lilly to advance next-generation obesity therapeutics

MEDI&GENE, a South Korea-based biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for metabolic diseases, has entered...

December 19, 2025 | Friday | News
Glenmark bags multi-regional rights to Hansoh Pharma’s oncology drug for $1 B

Glenmark Specialty S.A. (GSSA), a wholly owned subsidiary of India-based Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, has entered into an e...

December 18, 2025 | Thursday | News
South Korea's ADEL signs $1.04 B deal with Sanofi for novel Alzheimer's therapy

ADEL, Inc., a South Korea-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing therapies for neurodegenerative diseas...

December 17, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Insilico Medicine, TaiGen collaborate for AI-driven PHD inhibitor for CKD-related anaemia

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company headquartered ...

December 15, 2025 | Monday | News
Japan's Chugai establishes partnering office in US to accelerate global open innovation

Japan-based Chugai Pharmaceutical has announced the establishment of a new partnering office in South San Francisco, US....

December 12, 2025 | Friday | News
Chinese startup D3 Bio secures $108 M to advance global clinical programmes

D3 Bio, a global clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative oncology th...

December 12, 2025 | Friday | News
GITEX expands to Vietnam, igniting US$200bn National Digital Economy Potential

Vietnam’s burgeoning tech ecosystem is poised to ignite a vibrant new era of cross-continental collaboration and i...

December 9, 2025 | Tuesday | News
NUS Medicine and Cyclotek to strengthen radiopharma capability in Singapore and across ASEAN region

Singapore-based NUS Medicine’s Clinical Imaging Research Centre (CIRC), a leading academic centre for advanced mol...

December 8, 2025 | Monday | News
Singapore unveils S$37 billion RIE2030 Plan to advance research and innovation

The Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2030 (RIE2030) plan was endorsed at the 15th Research, Innovation and Enterprise...

December 5, 2025 | Friday | News
Taiwan's Jyong Biotech expands regional partnership with MoU signing in Vietnam

Taiwan-based Jyong Biotech, specialising in the treatment of urinary system diseases, with an initial focus on the marke...

December 6, 2025 | Saturday | News
Scientists in Korea to create mRNA vaccine against emerging tick-borne virus in Asia

Leading scientific organisations in Korea including the Korea Disease Control Agency (KDCA), International Vaccine Insti...

December 9, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Agilent and Monash University Malaysia strengthen partnership with new BioDiscovery Hub

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the expansion of their strategic collaboration with Monash University&...

December 5, 2025 | Friday | News
Biosparc advances China–Singapore collaboration with new strategic partnerships

Biosparc’s landmark project in Suzhou Industrial Park reached structural completion. On 20 November 2025 the firm ...

December 1, 2025 | Monday | News
Thermo Fisher Scientific Deepens Investment in Asia’s Biopharma Ecosystem with Expansion of Bioprocess Design Centers

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced an expansion of its bioprocessing capabili...

December 3, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Singapore's Patronus Biotech receives grant to evaluate novel malaria vaccine and adjuvant

Singapore-based startup Patronus Biotech has announced a grant from the Gates Foundation to accelerate the development o...

November 28, 2025 | Friday | News
“Regenerative medicines and microbiome health are emerging as exciting frontiers, with Australian companies and researchers pushing into new therapeutic approaches”

It has been over a year since you took on the role of CEO at AusBiotech. What have been your key priorities so far, and ...

December 1, 2025 | Monday | Opinion
“The next 5-years will see mRNA science evolve beyond infectious disease”

Your recent Singapore survey highlights persistent vaccine hesitancy among older adults, with only 51 per cent willing t...

December 1, 2025 | Monday | Opinion
Is China Poised to Overtake the US as Biotech’s Global Powerhouse?

China has reached a major milestone in global pharmaceutical innovation. According to the latest report from Clarivate, ...

December 1, 2025 | Monday | Analysis
Biotech Outlook 2026: Advancing AI, Organoids, and Translational Science

The Asia-Pacific biotech sector is entering 2026 with renewed momentum. Investment in the pre-clinical organoid space co...

December 1, 2025 | Monday | Opinion
Life Sciences Trends 2026: From Regulatory Agility, AI and Investments to Digital Health Transformation

2025 was the year when China’s stratospheric rise on the global biotech stage continued. According to a report fro...

December 1, 2025 | Monday | Analysis
Imugene and JW Therapeutics to bring CD19 CAR-T innovation for solid tumours

Australia's Imugene has entered a strategic co-development collaboration with Chinese startup JW Therapeutics to evaluat...

November 28, 2025 | Friday | News
Korea's SK Biopharmaceuticals expands radiopharmaceutical therapy portfolio

SK Biopharmaceuticals, a South Korea-based biotech company specialising in research, development, and commercialisation ...

November 28, 2025 | Friday | News
Taiwan's Jyong Biotech announces partnership in Korea to evaluate in‑licensing of plant-derived MCS drugs

Jyong Biotech, a science-driven biotechnology company based in Taiwan committed to developing and commercialising innova...

November 26, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Australia studies 3D printed blood vessels to unravel secrets of strokes

3D printed blood vessels on glass that mimic blood vessel anatomy and the fluid dynamics of blood flow could be an inval...

November 25, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Recursion’s New Chapter Begins with a Clear Promise: AI Built the Platform, Now It Must Deliver Medicines

When Najat Khan steps into her new role as CEO and President of Recursion, she inherits more than a celebrated...

November 24, 2025 | Monday | News
CytoMed acquires T Cell technology from UK to treat cancers in China and India

CytoMed Therapeutics, a Singapore-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical startup focused on harnessing its proprietary n...

November 27, 2025 | Thursday | News
KAIMRC to expand clinical research of novel medicines in Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), the largest medical research institution in the Kingdom of...

November 21, 2025 | Friday | News
BIOVOZ and University of Auckland join forces to lead anti-ageing research

Hong Kong's BIOVOZ has announced a strategic research partnership with the University of Auckland, New Zealand marking a...

November 21, 2025 | Friday | News
Singapore advancing industry–academia alliance to nurture the next generation of innovative MedTech talents

MedTech firms BD Medical Products and Terumo Asia Holdings have come on board to strengthen Duke-NUS Medical School&rsqu...

November 18, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Bayer E-Town Open Innovation Centre launches in Beijing

As a key step in Bayer’s “In China, for Global” strategy, the Bayer E-Town Open Innovation Center offi...

November 19, 2025 | Wednesday | News
South Korea's ABL Bio inks collaboration agreement with Lilly in $2.6 B deal

South Korea-based ABL Bio, a company specializing in bispecific antibodies, has entered license, research and collaborat...

November 19, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Australia launches Biointelect Venturer for scientific innovators with $32.9 M funding

Australia’s new national incubator for vaccine and infectious disease innovation, Biointelect Venturer, has been l...

November 18, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Singapore's ImmunoScape partners with Cue Biopharma to advance solid-tumour cell therapy

ImmunoScape, an A*STAR spin out backed by Amgen Ventures and EDBi that is developing next-generation TCR-based cancer im...

November 17, 2025 | Monday | News
Monash spinout RAGE Biotech secures $29 M to advance next-generation RNA therapeutics

Australia's Monash University spinout RAGE Biotech has raised $29 million in Series A funding, marking a major step towa...

November 14, 2025 | Friday | News
Vaxcellbio signs MoU with Seoul National University for macular degeneration treatment

Vaxcellbio, a South Korea-based immuno-oncology company, has entered into a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ...

November 14, 2025 | Friday | News
BostonGene and Kyoto University accelerate precision drug development

US-based BostonGene, developer of the leading AI foundation model for cancer and the immune system, and Kyoto ...

November 13, 2025 | Thursday | News
Puerto Rico’s Global Comeback: How Lilly’s Expansion Strengthens the Island’s Biopharma Future

Puerto Rico’s transformation into a powerhouse of advanced biopharmaceutical manufacturing is gaining new momentum...

November 12, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Sanyou Bio and Yugong Bio team up to accelerate expansion in high-end synthetic enzyme market

China-based startups Sanyou Bio and Yugong Bio have announced the signing of a strategic cooperation agre...

November 12, 2025 | Wednesday | News
Samsung Epis Holdings establishes new subsidiary to advance next-gen biotechnology platforms

South Korea-based Samsung Epis Holdings Co. has announced the establishment of Epis NexLab Co., a new subsidiary that wi...

November 11, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Australia opens training centre for radiation innovation

One of Australia’s newest Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centres is preparing researchers to lead in n...

November 6, 2025 | Thursday | News
Onward Therapeutics completes share exchange and establishes global headquarters in Taiwan

Onward Therapeutics has announced the completion of a share exchange, under which Onward Therapeutics, Inc. (Onward Taiw...

November 11, 2025 | Tuesday | News
4DMT and Otsuka ink deal worth $336 M to advance eye disease treatment in APAC

4D Molecular Therapeutics has announced a strategic partnership with Otsuka Pharmaceutical to develop and commercialise ...

November 4, 2025 | Tuesday | News
Innovation, Digitalization, and Collaboration: TechInnovation 2025 Shaping the Future of Bioscience Businesses

TechInnovation 2025 concluded on an inspiring note as leaders from long-standing industries shared how they are transfor...

October 31, 2025 | Friday | News
Vietnam Rises as a Key Pharmerging Market

Vietnam’s pharmaceutical market is expanding rapidly. According to Fitch Solutions, it was valued at $6 billion in...

November 1, 2025 | Saturday | Analysis
TechInnovation 2025: Advancing Asia-Pacific Innovations Through Collaboration and Standardization to Achieve Global Impact

TechInnovation 2025, organised by IPI Singapore, continued to Day 2 at Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 3,...

October 30, 2025 | Thursday | News

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