“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
New research centre for infectious diseases opens at Chinese University of Hong Kong

The S.H. Ho Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, a new research centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)...

June 28, 2023 | Wednesday | News
I-Mab announces appointment of Raj Kannan as new CEO

I-Mab, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with presence in China and the US, has announced the appointment of Ra...

June 23, 2023 | Friday | News
Australian startup Psylo advances depression treatment with Japanese pharma firm Daiichi Sankyo

Australia-based biotech startup Psylo has entered into a Sponsored Research Agreement with global Japanese pharmaceutica...

June 23, 2023 | Friday | News
Jumar Bioincubator in Australia calls for next-gen biotech startups

Australia's newest biotech incubator is calling for innovative early-stage Australian biotechs to take up residency...

June 22, 2023 | Thursday | News
Thailand's Chulalongkorn University signs MoU with National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan

More research and academic cooperation overseas is underway as Chulalongkorn University, Thailand signs a Memorandum of ...

June 22, 2023 | Thursday | News
Abu Dhabi announces strategic partnership to advance personalised medicine and genomics

The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the Emirate, has s...

June 20, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australia's national science agency CSIRO names Professor Doug Hilton as Chief Executive

The Board of Directors of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s n...

June 20, 2023 | Tuesday | News
CEPI invests up to $2.1 M for nipah virus research in Bangladesh, Malaysia

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), headquartered in Norway, has announced investments of up to $2.1...

June 20, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Emerging field of circadian medicine receives boost with new global association

World-leading experts in the emerging field of circadian medicine have announced a new global association to further the...

June 19, 2023 | Monday | News
NovAccess Global partners with Thailand's CKN Ventures to expand precision medicine division

US-based NovAccess Global, a biomedical company developing novel immunotherapies for brain tumour patients, has announce...

June 19, 2023 | Monday | News
China-based startup Cholesgen enters into drug discovery collaboration with AstraZeneca

Cholesgen (Shanghai) Co. has announced a new collaboration to advance research and development in hypercholesterolemia a...

June 16, 2023 | Friday | News
US-based startup Cullgen inks billion-dollar deal with Japanese pharma firm Astellas

Japan-headquartered Astellas Pharma and US-based startup Cullgen have entered into a research collaboration and exclusiv...

June 19, 2023 | Monday | News
UAE collaborates with US to advance life sciences research

The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), the regulator of the healthcare sector in the Emirate, has s...

June 15, 2023 | Thursday | News
COVID-19 can cause brain cells to ‘fuse': Australian study

Researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia have discovered viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can cause brain...

June 14, 2023 | Wednesday | News
CSIRO invests $25 M to drive biotech innovation in Australia

Australia’s national science agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), has inv...

June 13, 2023 | Tuesday | News
China-based startup Sanyou unveils novel antibody discovery platform

Sanyou Biopharmaceuticals has launched the "Sanyou Super Trillion Common Light Chain Antibody Discovery Platform". As o...

June 12, 2023 | Monday | News
FIND deepens ties with Korea to improve access to diagnostic testing in LMICs

FIND, a global health non-profit based in Geneva, Switzerland, has announced that two Memoranda of Understanding (M...

June 13, 2023 | Tuesday | News
Australian pharma firm Telix invests €14.1 M in Europe's radiopharmaceutical production facility

Australia-based Telix Pharmaceuticals has opened Telix Manufacturing Solutions, the company's radiopharmaceutical produc...

June 9, 2023 | Friday | News
Singapore develops promising stem cell-based regenerative therapy for heart disease

A stem cell therapy treatment developed by researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, for heart failure has ...

June 9, 2023 | Friday | News
Australia drives digital transformation of biopharma sector with new ARC Hub

A new Australian Research Council (ARC) Hub to help forge an internationally competitive Australian biopharmaceutica...

June 12, 2023 | Monday | News
Japanese firm Shimadzu invests in ChromaCode for developing scalable PCR technology

Japan-based Shimadzu Corporation has invested in ChromaCode Inc., a US-based startup with technology to expand genetic t...

June 8, 2023 | Thursday | News