Moderna invests $3 M to advance mRNA medicines in Australia

Australia's Monash University and American firm Moderna have announced the establishment of the Monash-Moderna Quantitat...

August 16, 2023 | Wednesday | News
With the west in the doldrums, biotech investors turn to Asia

The life sciences industry in the West is facing some strong headwinds, but it’s a different story in the Asi...

August 16, 2023 | Wednesday | Opinion
Thailand LAB INTERNATIONAL, Bio Asia Pacific and FutureCHEM 2023 set to unleash on Sep 6-8

VNU Asia Pacific, together with the Science and Technology Trade Association (STTA) and the Thailand Center of Excellenc...

August 11, 2023 | Friday | News
Experts get together to co-create new era for organoids in Singapore

From August 7 to 8, 2023, the International Society of Organoid Research (ISoOR) held its inaugural annual meeting ...

August 10, 2023 | Thursday | News
Australia takes new step towards future 3D printing of human tissues

A team of bioengineers and biomedical scientists from the University of Sydney and the Children's Medical Research Ins...

August 8, 2023 | Tuesday | News
India-Nepal collaboration to launch joint PhD programme in medical technology

In an important development for internationalisation, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H), India and Kathma...

August 8, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Japan's Astellas Pharma invests $50 M for redefining cancer cell therapy

Japanese firm Astellas Pharma Inc. and US-based startup Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. have announced a strategic investment...

August 8, 2023 | Tuesday | News
New report shows increasing US investment in Australian biotechs

Australia continues to attract significant investment from US investors, with the total figure of US investment into Aus...

August 7, 2023 | Monday | News
China-based startup Zhejiang Innoforce Pharma names new CEO

China-based startup Zhejiang Innoforce Pharmaceuticals Co., a contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO)...

August 3, 2023 | Thursday | News
Taiwan BioMed Industry Eyes $32B

Taiwan's ‘5+2’ Innovative Industries Plan prioritises biomedicine. The government approved the Biomedical In...

August 2, 2023 | Wednesday | Analysis
Korea discusses bilateral and multilateral cooperation with Australia in healthcare

Minister of Health and Welfare Cho, KyooHong in South Korea, recently discussed the approaches to cooperate in the healt...

August 1, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Indonesia inks MoUs with China for new collaborations in biotech & healthcare sectors

The Indonesia-China Healthcare and Biotech Investment Forum, co-hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Ch...

August 1, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Transforming Taiwan into an Asian Biomedical Hub

Known for its world-class Information and Communications Technology industry and bolstered by high-quality healthcare se...

August 2, 2023 | Wednesday | Opinion
Hong Kong-based startup Immuno Cure BioTech raises $12M in series A round

Immuno Cure BioTech, a biotechnology group based in the Hong Kong Science Park, has closed the $12 million tranche in th...

July 31, 2023 | Monday | News
Exploring Synergies: How Biotech Companies and Startups Can Drive Breakthrough Therapies

Leading global biotechnology company Amgen and NSG BioLabs, Singapore’s largest provider of biotech co-working lab...

July 28, 2023 | Friday | Company results
New facility in Sydney to raise bar in medical teaching and learning

The University of Sydney has launched an innovative new facility - purpose-built to bring health students and applied he...

July 27, 2023 | Thursday | News
Genomic profiling offers hope for 23,000 cancer patients in Australia

A high technology genomic profiling programme supported by the Australian government will examine new treatments for adv...

July 31, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese firms ink ¥20.6 B deal to discover novel targeted protein degraders

Japan-based firms Astellas Pharma and PeptiDream have announced a research collaboration and license agreement to discov...

July 27, 2023 | Thursday | News
Japan produces world's first report on brain activation by Plasmacluster Technology

Japanese firm Sharp Corporation conducted collaborative research on its Plasmacluster technology, with Dr Goichi Ha...

July 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Industry-academia partnership in Australia for $135 M to develop RNA-based COVID anti-viral

Australia's Griffith University has entered into a $135 million commercial partnership with Gene Company to further deve...

July 26, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Australia launches national cell and gene manufacturing blueprint

AusBiotech, an Australian industry body representing and advocating for organisations doing business in and with the glo...

July 24, 2023 | Monday | News
NAVER injects 30 B KRW to support digital bio research at Seoul National University Hospital

NAVER Corporation has announced a donation of 30 billion KRW over a span of three years to Seoul National University Hos...

July 25, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korea picks five regions to build Global Bio Campus to train biomanufacturing workforce

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW) in South Korea has announced the results of the public contest held to sel...

July 20, 2023 | Thursday | News
Israel to promote medical and healthcare based companies in Hong Kong

Hong Kong-based UMP Healthcare Innov Centre has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the I...

July 21, 2023 | Friday | News
SCG opens new cell therapy manufacturing facility and R&D centre in Singapore

SCG Cell Therapy Pte Ltd (SCG) celebrated the official opening of its Cell Therapy cGMP Manufacturing Facility and R&...

July 19, 2023 | Wednesday | News