Rise of Middle East as a Biotech Hub

The Middle East has identified the biotech industry as a promising venture for well over a decade. With an ageing and gr...

October 3, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Singapore drives research into range of diseases with new funding by Tanoto Foundation

Tanoto Foundation has announced the launch of a new Medical Research Fund that will provide up to S$5 million per year i...

September 29, 2023 | Friday | News
Thailand Hub of Talents in Cancer Immunotherapy to support advanced research

Thailand Hub of Talents in Cancer Immunotherapy (TTCI), funded by the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT),...

September 29, 2023 | Friday | News
JLABS collaborates with EDB to transform Singapore's Life Science Innovation Ecosystem

Johnson & Johnson International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. has collaborated with the Singapore Economic Development Board...

September 26, 2023 | Tuesday | Company results
New cell therapy facility by Novo Nordisk enters fight against chronic diseases

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has committed up to DKK 950 million (EUR 127 million) to establish a world-cl...

September 21, 2023 | Thursday | News
Merck announces two strategic collaborations to strengthen AI-driven drug discovery

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has announced two new strategic drug discovery collaborations aimed at ...

September 20, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Agilent partners with National Cancer Centre Singapore for genomics research

American firm Agilent Technologies has recently signed a Research Collaboration Agreement (RCA) with the National Cancer...

September 19, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Chinese startups Cure Genetics and Frametact ink $60 M deal to develop gene therapy for familial neurological diseases

China-based startup Cure Genetics and Frametact, founded by a molecular neuroscience research team at The...

September 16, 2023 | Saturday | News
Japan to develop brain bio-digital twin technology

NTT Corporation and the National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), in Japan, have entered into ...

September 15, 2023 | Friday | News
Sartorius India to Host Scientific Symposium in Hyderabad

Sartorius, an international supplier of pharmaceutical, Bio-analytical, and laboratory equipment, will be hosting a scie...

September 15, 2023 | Friday | News
MGI and Bio-Medical Science to deliver cutting-edge sequencing platforms to South Korea

MGI, a China-based company, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korean firm Bio-Medica...

September 14, 2023 | Thursday | News
Singapore announces S$75 M investment for commercialisation of deep tech ventures

The Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Temasek...

September 14, 2023 | Thursday | News
AI to transform all processes in drug development by 2026: CPHI report

The first part of the influential CPHI Annual Report predicts sizeable progress ahead for artificial intelligence (AI)&r...

September 13, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Samsung Bioepis inks immunology biosimilar deal with Sandoz

Sandoz, a division of Swiss firm Novartis in generic and biosimilar medicine, has entered into a development and commerc...

September 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Europe opens largest manufacturing facility for microbiome ecosystem therapies

MaaT Pharma, a clinical-stage biotech company and a leader in the development of Microbiome Ecosystem Therapies (ME...

September 12, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China-based startup Grit Biotechnology raises $60 M in Series B financing

Grit Biotechnology has announced the completion of a Series B financing round, raising over $60 million. The investment ...

September 11, 2023 | Monday | News
Eminence opens new GMP cell culture media manufacturing facility in China

Eminence Biotechnology (Suzhou) Co. has announced that its state-of-the-art facility for the commercial production of ce...

September 7, 2023 | Thursday | News
Non-animal models industry to generate over $1.5 B and 5,000 jobs for Australia by 2040: Study

An emerging capability that uses ‘non-animal models’ to evaluate novel medical products is estimated to gene...

September 6, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's Seegene unveils Open Innovation Programme in partnership with Springer Nature

Seegene Inc., a leading South Korean company providing a total solution for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) molecular di...

September 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong publishes policy paper on university-industry collaboration for Chinese Medicine innovation

The Policy Research Centre for Innovation and Technology (PReCIT) and the Research Centre for Chinese Medicine Innovatio...

September 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Smell Clinic commences in Australia as researchers gather more data on Alzheimer's disease

A pilot smell clinic has commenced at Australia-based Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus in a bid to gather m...

September 5, 2023 | Tuesday | News
World's largest genetic study reveals new insights on why epilepsy develops

Specific changes in our DNA that increase the risk of developing epilepsy have been discovered, in the largest genetic s...

September 4, 2023 | Monday | News
BIO Asia-Taiwan 2023: Embracing Asian Dynamics around precision health and CDMO

Coverage By Hithaishi Bhaskar The Taiwan Bio Industry Organization (Taiwan BIO) and the global Biotechnology Innovation...

August 31, 2023 | Thursday | News
Chinese startup Epigenic Therapeutics raises $32 M to strengthen work on epigenome medicine

Epigenic Therapeutics, a China-based biotechnology startup dedicated to developing next-generation gene modulation thera...

August 30, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Understanding Medicinal Drug Delivery Using Dry Powder Inhalers (DPIs)

For a long time, dry powder inhalers (DPI) have been used for treating asthma, and other respiratory diseases, by delive...

September 1, 2023 | Friday | Opinion