Australia announces world first trial for kids with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Three boys in New South Wales (NSW), Australia have become the youngest patients in the world to receive therapy for Duc...

July 19, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK Biopharma seeks to become major player in radiopharmaceutical therapy in Asia

SK Biopharmaceuticals, based in South Korea, has unveiled its new strategy that will enable the company take a leap towa...

July 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Hong Kong- Columbia scientists to initiate Global Pandemic Research Alliance

Acclaimed US-based Columbia University virologist Professor David Ho and The University of Hong Kong (HKU) microbiologis...

July 18, 2023 | Tuesday | News
MSIT-Google collaborate to nurture AI development in Korea

The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) in South Korea and Google jointly coordinated ‘AI for Korea 2023,’ wh...

July 17, 2023 | Monday | News
Chinese startups provide strong support for innovative ADC drug R&D

China-based biotech startups GeneQuantum and InxMed have signed a collaboration agreement. GeneQuantum has granted non-e...

July 17, 2023 | Monday | News
UAE to launch rare disease R&D project ‘NADER' in partnership with US

Burjeel Holdings, one of the largest healthcare providers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and US-base...

July 14, 2023 | Friday | News
COVID-19 affects placenta, causing number of pregnancy complications: China study

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have unveiled ...

July 14, 2023 | Friday | News
Data collection underway for ground-breaking cancer study in Australia

A first of its kind study exploring cancer in First Nations Australian communities has begun data collection with the la...

July 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Biosyngen to set up China-Singapore Translational Medicine Centre

The 13th Singapore Guangdong Collaboration Council was recently held in Singapore, where leaders from bot...

July 12, 2023 | Wednesday | News
Japan designs world's first immuno-chromatography kit for extracellular vesicles

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation has collaborated in developing Exorapid-qIC, an immuno-chromatography kit for extracell...

July 11, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China Scholarship Council and University of Melbourne partner to fund PhD candidates until 2027

The University of Melbourne, Australia has announced a partnership renewal with the China Scholarship Council for ...

July 11, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Korean firm Lotte Biologics internalises Antibody-Drug Conjugate services

South Korea-based Lotte Biologics has recently signed an agreement for contract research and joint development regarding...

July 11, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China's Doer Biologics inks biotherapeutics agreement with BioNTech

Zhejiang Doer Biologics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical startup in China developing innovative biotherapeutics for m...

July 11, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australia launches new cardiovascular research centre

A new cardiovascular research centre in Australia is bringing together Monash University, the Baker Heart and ...

July 10, 2023 | Monday | News
Australia's biomedical research sector set to expand

Monash University in Australia has acquired a prime Parkville property that will become a key addition to its Parkville ...

July 6, 2023 | Thursday | News
AI & Biotech- Transforming each other!

Rapid developments are taking place across the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and biotechnology, and application...

July 5, 2023 | Wednesday | Analysis
“The interest of companies in biobanks has significantly increased but investments have not yet been realised”

Since its inception in 2003, BioBank Japan has achieved many milestones. Could you please elaborate on those? I would l...

July 3, 2023 | Monday | News
Breaking Biotech M&A out of a Slump

2022 was an unspectacular year on the biotech M&A front. The industry witnessed a decline in both deal volume and va...

July 4, 2023 | Tuesday | Analysis
Ending the AMR Cycle

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among bacterial pathogens is a silent pandemic and an urgent global public health threat....

July 4, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
“Urgent action is needed worldwide to reduce AMR and protect our existing antibiotics"

What is being done to tackle AMR in the APAC region?  AMR is a global problem and it requires a global response. T...

July 4, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
“Key strategy of ICARS is to develop and test context-specific solutions for AMR mitigation"

In your opinion, which APAC countries have shown significant progress in addressing AMR? What specific measures or inter...

July 4, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
“New technologies are required to fill the gap and reverse resistance to existing antibiotics”

What is being done to tackle AMR within APAC? In 2015, the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly endorsed The Global Acti...

July 4, 2023 | Tuesday | Opinion
Tech-powered War on AMR

In 2022, the World Health Organisation South-East Asia Region (WHO SEAR) released the third progress analysis of impleme...

July 4, 2023 | Tuesday | Analysis
Australia explores use of yeast dust to make affordable diagnostic test

Researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, have made a dust from baker’s yeast that can detect...

July 3, 2023 | Monday | News
Biosyngen opens new cell therapy GMP facility in Singapore

Biosyngen, an immuno-oncology startup with technology targeting the unmet medical needs in solid tumour and lymphoma tre...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | News