National Initiative for RNA Biology and its Applications opens new hub in Singapore

The National Initiative for RNA Biology and its Applications (NIRBA) has officially opened its new Hub at the National U...

July 24, 2026 | Friday | News
Devonian receives Health Canada authorisation for paediatric Thykamine trial

Devonian Health Group has received Health Canada authorisation to initiate a Phase II/III paediatric clinical trial of P...

July 23, 2026 | Thursday | News
Japan's Kyoto University partners with BostonGene to advance biomarker discovery for combination immunotherapy

US-based BostonGene, the developer of the leading AI model for tumour and immune biology, has announced a strategic...

July 23, 2026 | Thursday | News
Novartis to invest KRW 140 B in Korea’s radioligand therapy ecosystem

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW), South Korea, and Novartis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) und...

July 23, 2026 | Thursday | News
China's Greater Bay Area opens first international clinical trial centre

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); the People’s Government of Nansha District, Guangzhou; and Guangzhou F...

July 22, 2026 | Wednesday | News
ING podcast examines China’s biotech rise and shifting global pharma order

ING has examined the shifting global pharmaceutical landscape in a podcast discussion focused on China’s biotech b...

July 22, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Singapore-based biotech startup Tikva Allocell closes $8 M Series A funding round

Tikva Allocell, a Singapore-based biotechnology startup developing engineered, allogeneic (donor-derived) cell therapies...

July 22, 2026 | Wednesday | News
BIONET Therapeutics Pioneers AI-Powered Exosomes for the Next Era of Precision Medicine

Exosomes are rapidly emerging as one of the most promising frontiers in regenerative medicine, offering the therapeutic ...

July 21, 2026 | Tuesday | Influencers
Australia injects $18 M into novel CAR-T cell therapy

A “precision guided” CAR T-cell therapy designed at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia’s on...

July 21, 2026 | Tuesday | News
BIO Asia–Taiwan 2026: Taiwan’s Strength Lies in Building the Future of Medicine from Every Side

Antibody-drug conjugates, GLP-1, dementia. Three Special Forums at BIO Asia-Taiwan 2026, three unrelated areas of medici...

July 17, 2026 | Friday | Analysis
BIO Asia–Taiwan 2026 Day 3 Round-Up: Biotech’s Next Great Race Begins Where Discovery Ends

On Wednesday the keynote argued that when AI compresses discovery, the constraint simply relocates: to manufacturing, ca...

July 17, 2026 | Friday | Analysis
Taiwan’s Biotech Ambition Gets a Presidential Signal as Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim Visits BIO Asia–Taiwan 2026

  Taiwan’s ambition to become one of Asia’s most consequential biotechnology hubs received a powerful ...

July 17, 2026 | Friday | News
Hong Kong and Indonesia deepen partnership to nurture top-tier scientific talent

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology...

July 17, 2026 | Friday | News
From Science to Scale, Taiwan Stakes Its Claim on the Exosome Economy

BIOSPECTRUM ASIA  ·  DAY TWO ROUND-UP Day 1 belonged to the plenaries and the press. Day 2 was when ...

July 16, 2026 | Thursday | Analysis
Japan's GHIT injects $18 M in Malaria, Tuberculosis and NTD R&D projects

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund has announced a total investment of approximately JPY 2.86 billion (...

July 16, 2026 | Thursday | News
CEPI, University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India launch trials for Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine

A CEPI-backed vaccine candidate developed by the University of Oxford’s Oxford Vaccine Group has become the first ...

July 16, 2026 | Thursday | News
Delonix doses first participant in China trial of MenB OMV vaccine

Delonix Bioworks has dosed the first participant in its Phase 1 clinical trial of DX-104, a next-generation Group B meni...

July 14, 2026 | Tuesday | News
Closing cervical cancer implementation gaps through coordinated financing in Asia

Cervical cancer is largely preventable, yet it continues to place a disproportionate burden on women across Asia. The re...

July 14, 2026 | Tuesday | Opinion
GEM and Senhwa Biosciences execute share purchase agreement for up to NT$500 M

US-based GEM Global Yield LLC SCS has executed a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) with the existing shareholders of Taiwan...

July 15, 2026 | Wednesday | News
Boostimmune secures Japanese patent for sequence-independent TCTP antibody technology

South Korea-based startup Boostimmune has secured a Japanese patent covering technology that uses antibodies to inhibit ...

July 14, 2026 | Tuesday | News
ARIA Bioscience collaborates with A*STAR to explore mitochondria-focused research for longevity aesthetics

ARIA Bioscience, Singapore’s longevity biotech commercialisation firm, is collaborating with the A*STAR Institute ...

July 13, 2026 | Monday | News
Korea's Samsung Bioepis enters into agreement with Proteina for AI-based antibody therapeutics

South Korea-based Samsung Bioepis has entered into a license agreement with Proteina Co. to collaborate on a government-...

July 13, 2026 | Monday | News
Godavari Biorefineries secures Japanese patent for advanced stem-cell targeted anti-cancer molecule

India's Godavari Biorefineries has been granted a patent by the Japan Patent Office for its breakthrough invention, "5-H...

July 9, 2026 | Thursday | News
Aegros builds Australia’s second human plasma fractionation facility

Australian biotech Aegros has completed Australia’s second human plasma fractionation facility, joining CSL’...

July 9, 2026 | Thursday | News
Seegene's global clinical study for shaping disease-specific testing standards to begin in Korea

Seegene has announced the launch of the Global Million Clinical Study (GMCS), aiming to evaluate the clinical utility an...

July 8, 2026 | Wednesday | News