Translating Cell And Gene Therapy Innovation Into Scalable Manufacturing Requires Early Strategic Planning

On the sidelines of the APAC Biomanufacturing Leadership Summit 2026 in Singapore, organised by Charles River, BioSpectr...

March 13, 2026 | Friday | News
Singapore Strengthens Its Position As A Trusted Hub For Global Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

On the sidelines of the APAC Biomanufacturing Leadership Summit 2026 in Singapore, organised by Charles River, BioSpectr...

March 13, 2026 | Friday | News
AI, Talent And Cross Domain Innovation Are Redefining Biomanufacturing In Asia Pacific

At the APAC Biomanufacturing Leadership Summit 2026 in Singapore, organised by Charles River, BioSpectrum Asia spoke wit...

March 13, 2026 | Friday | News
Samsung Biologics collaborates with Lilly to establish new gateway labs site in Korea

Samsung Biologics, a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has announced a collaborat...

March 13, 2026 | Friday | News
Predictive Monitoring Advances Cold Storage Resilience In Biopharma Facilities

Cold storage infrastructure plays a critical role across the life sciences industry, safeguarding vaccin...

March 12, 2026 | Thursday | News
Eli Lilly to invest $500million in S. Korea biotech ecosystem

Eli Lilly and Company has announced a $500 million investment over five years to bolster South Korea’s pharmaceu...

March 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
UltraGreen.ai expands Asia presence following propriety Imaging system approval in South and SEA markets

UltraGreen.ai Limited, a  global leader in fluorescence-guided surgery and digital health solutions, today announce...

March 12, 2026 | Thursday | News
Merck signs MoU with Cyto-Facto to advance Cell & Gene Therapy manufacturing in APAC region

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cyto-Fa...

March 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Singapore to establish Biological Data Centre prototype

National University of Singapore (NUS) Medicine is collaborating with DayOne, a Singapore-headquartered global data cent...

March 11, 2026 | Wednesday | News
China's CK Life Sciences establishes Sequencio Therapeutics for cancer vaccines development

Hong Kong-based CK Life Sciences has announced the establishment of Sequencio Therapeutics, a wholly-owned subsidiary de...

March 12, 2026 | Thursday | News
Precision for Medicine continues Asia Pacific expansion with new office in Japan

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

March 12, 2026 | Thursday | News
Charles River Signs Strategic MOUs To Strengthen APAC Biomanufacturing Ecosystem

Charles River Laboratories reinforced its commitment to strengthening the Asia Pacific biomanufacturing ecosystem by sig...

March 10, 2026 | Tuesday | News
DayOne and Cortical Labs to develop Singapore’s First Biological Data Center

DayOne, a Singapore-headquartered global data center developer and operator and Cortical Labs, a biological computi...

March 10, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Tsingke Biotech and iGeneTech partner to lead synthetic biology advancements in China

Beijing Tsingke Biotech and iGeneTech Bioscience have announced a strategic partnership aimed at advancing the fiel...

March 10, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Bioinnovation APAC 2026: Advancing Industrial Biomanufacturing in the Asia-Pacific Region

The Bioinnovation APAC 2026 forum, held in Singapore on March 4-5, was a landmark event that brou...

March 9, 2026 | Monday | News
China approves Sciwind Biosciences' Ecnoglutide injection for chronic weight management

Hangzhou Sciwind Biosciences has announced that China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved Ecn...

March 7, 2026 | Saturday | News
Australia injects $21 M into first oral therapeutic for restoring gut lymphatic function

Australia's Monash University has announced the award of support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (...

March 6, 2026 | Friday | News
Terumo introduces cell & gene therapy ecosystem blueprint for APAC region

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies (Terumo BCT) has announced the launch of its new cell & gene therapy (C&...

March 6, 2026 | Friday | News
Cedar Park Positions Itself As A Scalable Hub For Life Sciences And Advanced Manufacturing

As global life sciences companies seek locations that combine skilled talent, scalable infrastructure, a...

March 5, 2026 | Thursday | Analysis
Singapore's ImmunoScape announces MoU for clinical trial with US-based cancer centre

Singapore-based startup ImmunoScape, an A*STAR spin-out backed by Amgen Ventures and EDBI that is developing next-genera...

March 5, 2026 | Thursday | News
MGI Tech aquires STOmics and CycloneSEQ to advance spatial biology and nanopore sequencing technologies

MGI Tech Co., Ltd. , a company dedicated to developing core tools and technologies that drive innovation in the life sci...

March 4, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan's Senhwa Biosciences inks immunotherapy deal with US biotech firm CellType

Taiwan-based Senhwa Biosciences, Inc. has announced the signing of a major strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) w...

March 4, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Australia develops quantum biotech platform to transform Alzheimer's treatment discovery

A University of Melbourne industry collaboration has been awarded $2.1 million by the Australian Government to build a q...

March 4, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Mission (im)possible? Efficient Global Antibody Drug Conjugate Product Approvals

ADCs are highly complex molecules that were initially developed to allow highly potent cytotoxic agents to be selectivel...

March 1, 2026 | Sunday | Opinion
“The global trend is moving beyond centralised hubs toward distributed networks and domestic capability”

As Saudi Arabia accelerates its biotech ambitions, what specific infrastructure investments or technological advancement...

March 1, 2026 | Sunday | Opinion
“We believe Korea outpaces many Western markets in its appetite and readiness to adopt integrated digital-biological innovation”

What strategic gaps in the Korean diagnostics market does this exclusive distribution agreement with Lucent Diagnostics ...

March 1, 2026 | Sunday | Opinion
“Asia is a growth engine, and India is a cornerstone of that strategy — both as a destination for advanced therapies and as a contributor to global innovation”

How is Miltenyi Biotec adapting its long-term strategy to meet the specific scientific and clinical demands of ASEAN mar...

March 1, 2026 | Sunday | Opinion
China's Frontier Biotech inks $963 M deal with GSK for small interfering RNA therapeutics

China-based Frontier Biotechnologies Inc. has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with GSK, a global biop...

February 27, 2026 | Friday | News
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
Hong Kong, Sweden collaboration to advance mesenchymal stromal cell therapy for knee osteoarthritis

The InnoHK Centre for Neuromusculoskeletal Restorative Medicine (CNRM), established by The Chinese University of Hong Ko...

February 26, 2026 | Thursday | News
YD Bio partners with YC Biotech to establish Taiwan-US dual-core regulatory platform

YD Bio Limited, biotechnology company advancing DNA methylation-based cancer detection technology and ophthalmologic inn...

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
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
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
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